A. Encke, EFFECTS UPON GRADUATE MEDICAL-EDUCATION, POSTGRADUATE TRAINING, RESEARCH, THERAPEUTIC QUALITY, AND FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF SURGERY, Langenbecks Archiv fur Chirurgie, 1996, pp. 663-666
The legal ''contract for patient care'' issued by the Federal Governme
nt for all hospitals interferes with graduate medical education (appro
bation order), postgraduate surgical training, the KMK paper for new s
tructures and financing of university medicine, health politics of the
Physicians Parliament and the Legal Health System, guidelines for sur
gical practice, internal and external quality measurement, and, last b
ut not least, with clinical research in surgery. The different effects
are outlined in detail.