Zeitschrift für ärztliche Fortbildung und Qualitätssicherung
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Z Arztl Fortbild Qualitatssich · Oct 2003
[Quality control in medical education and continuing medical education in allergology in Germany].
Quality control in education and training in allergology comprises activities at the different levels of the curriculum of medical schools, residency programs and postgraduate education. Unfortunately, until now allergology in Germany has not yet been regularly embedded in the medical curriculum of all medical schools. Therefore, the German Society for Allergology and Clinical Immunology (DGAI) has demanded for years that chairs and departments of allergology be introduced at every Medical Faculty in Germany. ⋯ As regards post-graduate education, the German Academy of Allergology and Environmental Medicine (Deutsche Akademie für Allergie und Umweltmedizin, DAAU) has introduced a system of certified continuing medical education (CME), which has been widely accepted in Germany. CME credit points are awarded in co-operation with the regional physicians' chambers ("Landesärztekammer"). Quality control in allergology has to be re-enforced and improved at all levels of medical curricula, training programmes and post-graduate education in order to achieve sustainable improvements in patient care for the large number of people in Germany suffering from allergies.
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Z Arztl Fortbild Qualitatssich · Oct 2003
[Suspected diagnosis of bronchial asthma--development of an algorithm for diagnosis of asthma in general practice].
In 2003, the German Ministry of Health will publish a legal document that will allow for the implementation of disease management programmes for asthma and COPD. Examination of German asthma guidelines reveals that they do not include recommendations for a stepwise diagnostic work-up of patients with relevant symptoms in general practice. Therefore an algorithm was developed for the diagnosis of asthma in general practice, based on both national and the most important foreign guidelines providing specific advice on diagnostic procedures.