Allergy and environmental medicine in otorhinolaryngology in Germany

Environmental medicine and allergy were found to be important in the daily ENT practice after statistical analysis and an inquiry among all ENT doctor s in Germany. 64% of ENT colleagues do practice allergy, 20% environmental medicine. With reference to all registered ENT doctors 24% are titled aller gists, 4% specialists in environmental medicine. Focussing on the teaching there is a big difference between both groups. Whereas training facilities for allergists are reasonable, there are only a few chief instructors for e nvironmental medicine in the ENT society. This fact has to be considered on educational plannings in future.