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[Career perspectives for intensive care and emergency medicine physicians]
Reimer Riessen1, Christoph Dodt2
1Internistische Intensivstation, Department für Innere Medizin, Universitätsklinikum Tübingen, Otfried-Müller-Str. 10, 72076, Tübingen, Deutschland. reimer.riessen@med.uni-tuebingen.de.
Background:
Emergency departments and intensive care units are of great importance for patient care and require qualified and competent medical staff.
Objective:
To present the range of tasks and career paths in emergency and intensive care medicine that make further training and long-term employment in these areas attractive.
Methods And Results:
Emergency and intensive care medicine are characterized by a wide range of clinical tasks, but also by stresses resulting from, for example, shift work. As an alternative to full-time employment, part-time work can also be combined with other tasks, such as training, continuing education, teaching, research, or management.
Conclusion:
Emergency and intensive care medicine offers a variety of exciting and promising fields of activity, but also specific stresses that must be taken into account in work models.
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