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D Habeck

Publications and source records attributed to D Habeck.

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PubMed1982

The current state of medical education in the Federal Republic of Germany and some of its problems.

The current problems facing medical education in the Federal Republic of Germany can be accounted for largely by the effects of the Regulations for Doctors' Licences introduced in 1970. The causes are complex, but the most important factors include: centralised multiple choice examinations which make students orientate their learning towards memorizing facts rather than acquiring medical skills; too little clinical experience, a scarcity of training opportunities (the intake of medical students has grown sharply over the last few years to between 11 000 and 12 000 a year); too few patients; and insufficiently experienced teachers.

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PubMed1977

[Patient's opinions on doctors' explanations (author's transl)].

An inquiry by means of a questionnaire among 1043 persons (566 in-patients, 269 employees of industrial firms, 208 teachers) revealed: 32.5% were "often not" and 26.5% were "nearly always" satisfied with the medical information provided by their doctors. They were mainly interested in the causes of complaints (77.7%), in the prognosis (66.4%), in the effect of the medicament (44.5%) and in the diagnosis, using technical terminology (37.7%). Nearly all of them wanted to know about the contents of the specialist's report: 35.5% would like to read the report for themselves and 61.4% wanted an intelligible explanation by the family doctor. In incurable malignant disease, 49.5% preferred the patient to be fully informed, whereas 24.4% wanted information about a serious illness which might lead to death. Other questions concerned the information of relatives and between doctors.

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