[WDoku: computer-based documentation of continuing education curricula in orthopaedics and trauma surgery]

With the introduction of the new regulations governing the postgraduate training for qualification as specialist in orthopaedics and trauma surgery it has become a requirement, as in all surgical disciplines, that a logbook is kept to document the content of training courses. In it the basic steps and techniques carried out, but especially the list of operations performed, are recorded. To create a convenient option for standardised documentation of the content of training courses and to make a "medical journal" for all doctors possible, a special computer program has been developed within a project at the BG Trauma Clinic in Ludwigshafen. The program is called WDoku, and it is based on the training course content prescribed by the medical associations in the different länder; it allows data import from internal clinic documentation programs. In addition to submittals for the annually required training interviews it makes it possible to print out a logbook so that candidates can register for the specialist examination with the medical associations.