Number of medical practitioners with additional postgraduate qualification registered with the medical associations. Classification: years, region, sex, additional postgraduate qualification, field of activity ^Info

Additional postgraduate qualification	Year (descending)
	1993	1995	2000	2005	2010	2015	2020	2021	2022
Medical quality management	-	-	231	691	1,930	2,703	3,023	3,100	3,152
Acupuncture	-	-	-	2,113	12,489	14,082	14,996	15,131	15,307
Allergology	4,920	5,483	7,545	8,703	9,627	10,147	10,060	10,127	10,188
Andrology	-	-	-	28	1,474	1,607	1,679	1,708	1,725
Balneology and medical climatology Info	2,001	2,238	2,553	2,916	2,723	2,524	2,264	2,228	2,195
Company medicine	5,318	5,189	6,758	7,646	7,828	7,714	7,331	7,291	7,563
Blood transfusion Info	333	700	775	936	956	933	879	881	873
Dermatological histology	-	-	-	32	194	257	305	309	317
Diabetology Info	-	-	68	901	2,763	3,281	3,721	3,826	3,931
Aviation medicine	305	367	518	621	706	731	683	682	680
Geriatrics	-	-	-	18	835	1,863	2,879	3,112	3,333
Gynaecological exfoliative cytology	-	-	-	4	31	56	72	75	81
Haemostaseology	-	-	-	35	367	492	561	583	600
Hand surgery	-	185	714	987	1,396	1,783	2,012	2,071	2,154
Homeopathy	2,212	2,842	4,491	5,901	6,809	7,038	6,818	6,780	6,719
Infectiology	-	-	-	31	489	661	895	948	1,009
Intensive care medicine	-	-	-	124	2,521	5,869	10,215	11,343	12,434
Pediatric endocrinology and diabetology	-	-	-	13	201	265	316	327	333
Pediatric gastroenterology	-	-	-	15	144	235	314	333	346
Pediatric nephrology	-	-	-	10	75	101	124	125	129
Pediatric orthopedics	-	-	-	20	355	502	598	620	632
Pediatric pulmonology	-	-	-	13	403	492	546	555	559
Pediatric rheumatology	-	-	-	24	146	183	226	235	242
Laboratory diagnostics	-	-	-	-	100	162	195	214	225
Magnetic resonance imaging	-	-	-	11	95	147	196	204	213
Manual therapy/chirotherapy Info	5,568	7,175	12,626	16,934	19,409	20,938	21,703	21,861	22,055
Tumor therapy with drugs	-	-	-	25	2,974	4,085	5,035	5,279	5,513
Medical genetics Info	271	273	332	326	333	330	317	321	313
Health informatics	168	192	410	706	807	841	769	778	784
Naturopathic medicine	5,000	6,207	10,746	14,088	15,744	16,346	16,115	16,141	16,118
Emergency medicine Info	-	6	5,831	13,420	28,925	38,977	49,357	51,531	53,767
Orthopaedical rheumatology	-	-	-	-	49	112	141	157	161
Palliative care	-	-	-	101	5,417	9,909	13,848	14,620	15,459
Phlebology	-	579	1,949	2,478	2,789	3,009	2,965	3,012	3,038
Physical therapy and balneology Info	2,152	2,535	4,897	5,981	6,745	6,792	6,438	6,392	6,355
Plastic surgery Info	852	906	1,256	1,552	1,876	2,136	2,218	2,258	2,284
Proctology	-	-	-	59	1,587	2,002	2,315	2,412	2,480
Psychoanalysis	1,819	1,911	2,565	2,922	3,095	3,155	3,109	3,099	3,090
Psychotherapy, bound to specialist fields Info	8,228	9,596	14,694	16,788	17,909	18,437	17,915	17,845	17,839
Rehabilitation	-	357	2,296	2,577	2,824	2,935	2,820	2,810	2,803
Radiographic diagnostics	-	-	-	-	1,354	2,838	2,684	2,888	3,069
Somnology	-	-	-	90	901	1,146	1,330	1,398	1,450
Social medicine	3,808	4,149	5,934	7,296	8,363	9,092	9,156	9,190	9,249
Special orthopaedical surgery	-	-	-	19	250	539	930	1,047	1,155
Special paintherapy	-	-	1,273	3,181	4,264	5,312	6,200	6,440	6,661
Special accident surgery	-	-	-	71	1,116	1,954	2,830	3,055	3,316
Special abdominal surgery	-	-	-	-	-	337	665	755	867
Sports medicine	7,734	8,618	12,955	15,759	17,785	18,042	17,562	17,592	17,679
Voice and speech disorders Info	525	591	818	1,014	1,080	1,061	1,001	998	991
Basic health care for addicts Info	-	-	-	57	1,191	2,396	3,415	3,546	3,729
Tropical medicine	266	439	386	398	415	416	421	421	408
Environment medicine Info	-	597	4,177	4,368	4,369	4,327	4,054	4,015	3,954

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Region	Germany	Germany Baden-Wurttemberg Bavaria Berlin Brandenburg Bremen Hamburg Hesse Mecklenburg Western Pomerania Lower Saxony North Rhine-Westphalia Rhineland-Palatinate Saarland Saxony Saxony Anhalt Schleswig-Holstein Thuringia Former federal territory and East Berlin New Länder excluding East Berlin
Sex	All sexes	All sexes Male Female
Field of activity	Field of activity total	Field of activity total With medical activity Outpatient In own practice Employed Inpatient In authorities/corporate bodies and others In other fields Without medical activity

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Comment(s)

• Data from the reference date (December, 31) of the respective year.
• The additional postgraduate qualifications are in accordance with the (Model)Further Qualification Ordinance ("(Muster-)Weiterbildungsordnung") of the Federal Medical Council from 2003, as far as they are included there. Old descriptions, which are not included in this version, were, if possible, assigned to descriptions in this version.

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• The table was extended by the year 2022 on 23 Jun 2023.
  Information for a new reporting period will be added as soon as it is available.

Links

• Information concerning Medical practitioners with subspecialization, German Medical Association .
• Information concerning Medical practitioners, foreign-national, registered by the medical associations .

The Federal Health Monitoring System 18. Apr 2024