take almost half of a cohort's not the medical profession. The renegade is it often better than their counterparts in the hospitals: The economy pays higher salaries - and endless overtime remain an exception as "Spiegel Online" (16.12.2005) requires.
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actually wanted to become a bishop Joachim surgeon. At 28 he had a PhD in his pocket and spent most of the day on the operating table. Until he was even on the table. At 29, he had a severe herniated disc suffered, partly because of the long, sloping forwards standing in the OR. Three years later, he underwent surgery. Bishop was looking for a professional alternative, especially since he got to see his then one year old daughter due to weekend and night shifts are rare.
The doctor took the car manufacturer Opel has a job as assistant to the specialist in occupational medicine. The training lasted two years. His colleagues scoffed: "The bishop goes into early retirement." The Department of Health had a bad reputation. But Bishop was on his way, undeterred.
now heads the 44-year-old health management at the BMW Group in Munich. He has the professional leadership of almost 30 occupational physicians and is part of upper management. His wife and two children now see him during the week, not more frequently than before. But he has no more late nights and weekends are usually free.
"Often you need a personal shock, thus changing his situation fundamentally," Bishop said today. It is understandable that many young doctors compete to escape from the clinics. For months doctors representative storm run against the working conditions and low pay in the clinics - most recently with a strike at the Berlin Charité.
Junior doctors are smeared
at 1 October 2005, the federal civil service pay scale BAT by the collective agreement Public Service TVöD was replaced. Anyone who has been employed against clinic doctor was allowed to be pleased with a financial vested interests.
are smeared young doctors who have hatched after the date in the white coat and slip are. The Marburger Bund has calculated that a 29-year-old married doctor over a period of ten years exactly earn less than € 31298.46 to bat time.
At BMW the other hand, captures a young engineer with an average of about 4000 € to gross and will rarely have to work 60 hours a week. For sorgt die strikte Einhaltung der Arbeitsschutzgesetze. "Bei uns wird medizinische Prävention ernst genommen, die Arbeitsfähigkeit der Mitarbeiter erhalten", betont Bischof.
In der Klinik hatte er auch unter dem "Nasenfaktor" gelitten: "Man ist in seinem beruflichen Fortkommen auf Gedeih und Verderb dem Wohl und Wehe des Chefarztes ausgeliefert", berichtet er aus dem Klinikalltag. Darunter leiden viele junge Mediziner.
"Heute kann ich Dinge umsetzen, die mir wichtig sind", meint auch Anthony Lauw. Der 32 Jahre alte Mediziner war in der Unfallchirurgie und arbeitet seit gut zwei Jahren bei Novartis Pharma in Nürnberg, jetzt als verantwortlicher Produktmanager für einen Blood pressure medicines. manage working flexible means for Lauw quality of life that he did not know before.
loss rate of 41%
According to the Federal Medical Council is the shrinkage rate of doctors from their jobs at 41 percent. In 1997 11.700 students had received a medical degree, in the final in 2003 but only started their 6802 physician-in-training site in fact.
The study dropout rate among medical professionals is very low. The rest leave; in the economy or abroad. 6300 German doctors are working in foreign hospitals, mostly for better money. A study by the UK Department of Health showed that German hospital doctors in an international comparison low wage earners. In 2004 there were in Germany about 306 500 physicians, including 146 000 hospital doctors. The Marburger Bund has been warning years before the shortage of doctors.
the shortage of doctors now feel even Joachim Bischof: "If we advertise a job, we receive fewer applications than they were two or three years." This is not safe in the company: BMW is one of the most sought after graduates by employers in this country. The occupational health had improved their standing strong now, said Bishop. "The job prospects for medical students have become much worse," he explains the falling interest am Arztberuf.
Dass Ärzte auch außerhalb von Klinikmauern Menschen helfen können, davon ist Korinna Pilz fest überzeugt. Nach ihrem Biologiestudium ging sie in die Forschung und studierte nebenher Medizin. Ihr Ziel war es, an der Schnittstelle zwischen Medizin und Biologie zu arbeiten. "Nach mehreren Jahren Arbeit im Krankenhaus hat sich aber herausgestellt, dass sich der Klinikalltag nicht mit dem Forschungsalltag verbinden lässt", sagt die 39-jährige im Rückblick. Heute arbeitet sie beim Pharmaunternehmen Merck in Darmstadt und ist zuständig für internationale Studien eines neuen Krebsmedikaments.
