Medical Specialist for Anatomy

Synynom: anatomist
German: Facharzt für Anatomie

Annotation: All given information is with reference of the advanced training in Germany. For other countries there might occur differences)

1 Definition

A medical specialist for anatomy deals with construction, composition and status of the body, its tissues and organs inclusively systematical and topographical-functional aspects as well as embryology.

2 Goal of the Advanced Training

Goal of the advanced training in fields of anatomy is the achievement of medical specialist's competency and expertise after completion of the required advanced training period and the advanced training contents.

3 Period of the Advanced Training

The period of advanced training lasts 48 months with an authorized professional counselor in an authorized training facility pursuant to § 5, passage 1, sentence 1. Corrispondingly, up to 12 months of the areas of pathology and/or forensic medicine can be taken into account. Therefrom 6 months can be taken into account in other areas.

4 Content of the Advanced Training

The advanced training serves the acquirement of knowledge, experience and skill in

• basic scientific methods to examine morphological-medical questions in fields of macroscopic anatomy, microscopic anatomy and embryology
• prescriptions concerning the transport of corpses and funeral matters with corresponding hygiene regulations
• systematical and topographical anatomy including context and connection between structure and function as well as comparative anatomy
• clinical anatomy
• x-ray anatomy and its basic imaging methods
• organ donation matters and its legacies
• embryology and basics of development biology
• conservation and storage of corpses with regards to the corresponding hygiene regulations
• fields of the macroscopic methods of preparation
• creation, installation and maintenance of anatomical preparations and their demonstration
• histology and microscopical anatomy including histochemistry and immunehistochemistry as well es in-situ hybridisation with pertinent techniques of fixation, cutting and staining.
• light as well as flourescence microscopy with various techniques
• tissue engineering with experimental cytology
• macroscopic as well as microscopic photography
• morphometrics with methods of quantification and statistics
• electron microscopy and molecular biology with various techniques
• basics of the methods of cellbiology and molecular biology