[Educational curriculum and organization in the general hospital]

With sufficient organization and personal activity comprehensive postgraduate medical education can successfully be carried out even at a small surgical department, especially--but not exclusively--in one's early years of postgraduate education and especially if external course offers are made use of. Postgraduate education is endangered not so much because of local circumstances, but because of external influences like official regulations on working-time, the lack of offers for rotations, and restrictions on our duty to take professional care of people.