Overview
Interdisciplinary Schwerpunkt regulating training for doctors working in hospital emergency departments, published by SIWF and administered by SGNOR. Practical training is completed in recognised emergency departments (categories 1-3) alongside mandatory ACLS/ALS, ATLS/ETC, emergency ultrasound and hospital disaster-management courses.
The programme
- Focus
- Clinical (in-hospital) emergency medicine
- Training type
- Subspecialty training programme
- Duration
- 24 months of clinical emergency medicine at recognised emergency departments (can be completed within specialist training)
- Start
- Not stated on official page
- Positions
- Not stated on official page
- Accreditation
- SIWF-published interdisciplinary Schwerpunkt (programme of 1 January 2021, last revised 17 January 2024), administered by SGNOR.
- Department
- Not stated on official page
Eligibility and visa
- Eligibility
- Federal or federally recognised specialist title in General Internal Medicine, Anaesthesiology, Surgery, Cardiac and Thoracic Vascular Surgery, Intensive Care Medicine, Cardiology or Orthopaedic Surgery (ICU and Cardiology holders also need 30 months of AIM, anaesthesia or surgery); exam admission also requires at least 12 months (100%) at a recognised SGNOR site, at least 3 completed training years towards the AIM, Anaesthesiology, Surgery, Intensive Care, Cardiology or Orthopaedics title, and the required courses.
- International applicants
- Training abroad (clinical work and courses) is credited if equivalence is shown; part or all of the training may be done abroad, assessed by the interdisciplinary education commission.
- Visa support
- Not stated on official page
- Licence requirement
- Requires one of the listed Swiss federal or federally recognised specialist titles.
How to apply
- Deadline
- Not stated on official page
- Application method
- Train at SGNOR/SIWF-recognised emergency departments; register for the final exam and certification via the SGNOR secretariat (sekretariat@sgnor.ch).
Funding
- Funding
- Not stated on official page
Official sources
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