Your profession: Medical specialist (m/f) - Internal medicine
Professional activities
Medical specialists for internal medicine diagnose and treat lung, heart, circulation, gastrointestinal and other internal organ diseases. They focus on diseases of the blood, lymphatic, metabolic, muscular-skeletal and locomotor systems. Medical specialists for internal medicine also deal with allergic and immune illness and infectious diseases.
Fields of work
Medical specialists for internal medicine mainly work in hospitals, at clinics attached to institutes of higher education and in specialist medical practices. They may also be employed in medical research or teaching.
Regulation
This profession is regulated in Germany.
The professional profiles are based on information from berufenet at the Federal Employment Agency and BIBB (Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training).