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Qualifications and evidence
- 01IDENTITY AND NAME PARITY
EXACTLY AS IN THE PASSPORT⟨VORNAME⟩ ⟨NACHNAME⟩
⟨GRAD MIT VERLEIHUNGSSTAAT⟩
- 02PRIMARY LICENCE
Licence to practise medicine — Approbation, ⟨APPROBATIONSLAND⟩, granted ⟨JJJJ⟩
Granting authority: ⟨ERTEILENDE BEHÖRDE⟩
The German licence to practise is granted without expiry and is not renewed.
- 03HOW TO VERIFY
ECFMG EPIC portfolio, identifier ⟨EPIC-KENNUNG⟩
not held.
- 04SPECIALIST QUALIFICATION
⟨FACHARZTBEZEICHNUNG IM WBO-WORTLAUT⟩
⟨ZUSATZ-WEITERBILDUNG IM WBO-WORTLAUT⟩
⟨SPECIALIST TITLE — UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION⟩
unofficial translation
Anaesthesiology is listed in Annex V No. 5.1.3 of Directive 2005/36/EC as a specialty with automatic recognition, minimum training period three years. In Germany, intensive care medicine is not a specialty in its own right but an additional qualification in supplement to a specialty. It requires recognition in one of six fields — anaesthesiology, surgery, internal medicine, paediatrics, neurosurgery or neurology — and, beyond that, 18 months of intensive care medicine under an authorised trainer at accredited sites; six months of these may be credited from training in the field itself if twelve months of intensive care medicine have already been completed under an authorised trainer. The intensive care time actually completed is therefore regularly longer than 18 months, because specialty training in anaesthesiology itself contains intensive care months.
- 05INTERNATIONALLY READABLE ICM CREDENTIAL
not held.
- 06LICENCES BY JURISDICTION
not held.
- 07PROFESSIONAL INDEMNITY BY TERRITORY
INSURER⟨VERSICHERER⟩
SUM INSURED⟨DECKUNGSSUMME⟩
POLICY NUMBER⟨POLICENNUMMER⟩
TERRITORIAL SCOPE
not held.
AS AT⟨JJJJ-MM-TT⟩
- 08AVAILABILITY, DEPUTY, DEADLINE, SECOND CHANNEL
TELEPHONE⟨+49 XXX XXXXXXX⟩
BASE AND TIME ZONE⟨ORT⟩ · Europe/Berlin
CALL BACK WITHINnot held.
NAMED MEDICAL DEPUTYnot held.
THREEMA⟨XXXXXXXX⟩
- 09LANGUAGES: LEVEL AND FUNCTION
⟨SPRACHE⟩ — ⟨GER-NIVEAU⟩
conversational, no consent conversations
- 10CONFIDENTIALITY, CONTRACTING, REFERENCES
- Non-disclosure agreement: I sign yours, and I have one of my own that I send on request.
- If no mandate comes about, records are deleted within 30 days. If one does, they are kept for ten years after completion.
- Access is held by me and, during an announced absence and only in relation to the case, by my named deputy. No secretariat, no assistant, no agency.
- Storage in Germany and Switzerland on the operators’ own servers; processors bound under Article 28 GDPR and in writing under Section 203(4) of the German Criminal Code.
- Zero external requests on first load. You can check that in the network tab of your browser.
- Two references at chief-of-staff or medical-director level, on request and with written consent.
- 11COURSES AND RECERTIFICATION
not held.
- 12DEPLOYMENT HISTORY IN FIGURES
not held.
not held.
- 13GERMAN VERIFICATION ROUTE, WORK, DOWNLOAD
MEDICAL CHAMBER⟨ÄRZTEKAMMER⟩
⟨ANSCHRIFT DER KAMMER⟩
MEMBER NUMBER⟨MELDENUMMER⟩
SPECIALIST TITLE, WBO WORDING⟨FACHARZTBEZEICHNUNG IM WBO-WORTLAUT⟩
ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATION, WBO WORDING⟨ZUSATZ-WEITERBILDUNG IM WBO-WORTLAUT⟩
ORCID⟨0000-0000-0000-0000⟩
LEARNED SOCIETIESnot held.
CREDENTIALING DOSSIERnot held.
⟨ORT⟩, 2026-08-07 · signed ⟨NACHNAME⟩, ⟨FACHARZTBEZEICHNUNG IM WBO-WORTLAUT⟩
Personally responsible for every statement on this page.
ANNEX V NO. 5.1.3 DIRECTIVE 2005/36/EC, CONSOLIDATED VERSION 2005L0036 — EN — 17.01.2014 — 010.003
SPECIALTY TRAINING REGULATIONS ⟨ÄRZTEKAMMER⟩ OF ⟨DATUM DER WBO⟩ · ECFMG EPIC · JOINT COMMISSION PSV / DESIGNATED EQUIVALENT SOURCE
CHECKED 2026-08-07 · THIS VERSION EXPIRES 2027-02-03
⟨NACHNAME⟩, ⟨SPECIALIST TITLE — UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION⟩. I look at the case myself.
If you call now
The first hour
I ask four things: where the patient is, since when, what was last done, and who decides on site. I tell you on the phone whether I can contribute anything. If I cannot, I say so the same day and name two colleagues who can.
The first 24 hours
I need the complete records: course, findings, imaging, medication, ventilation and circulatory parameters. You receive an upload link for that; do not send them by e-mail and not by fax. I speak with the treating team, not against it. Then I tell you what I see and what I do not see.
After that
I write down what was discussed, with a date, and give it to you. I stay reachable while the case runs, and I tell you when it ends for me. Every handover to another team happens with a name, not with a distribution list.
What I am called for
Independent specialist assessment and continuity over the course — including the question of whether the goal of treatment is still the right one.
Some of these cases end with the patient’s death. What applies then and what I do then is on a page of its own: When treatment no longer reaches its goal.
Who decides what
In these days you will be asked several times what should be done. It helps to know who actually decides what.
- Medical indication. Whether a measure can still achieve anything is decided by the treating doctor. That is not a question you are asked.
- Consent and the patient’s will. Every measure needs both: indication and will.
- Advance directive (Section 1827 German Civil Code). If he wrote it down, he decided it himself.
- Health care proxy. Who speaks for him, and on what.
- Legal guardianship (Sections 1814 et seq. German Civil Code). Appointed by the court, not by the family.
- Spousal emergency representation (Section 1358 German Civil Code). Limited in scope and in time.
- Change of the goal of treatment. A medical decision in the sense of the patient — not a decision you have to take.
- Clinical ethics consultation. It can be requested by relatives too, not only by the treating team.
- Where my mandate ends. I assess, I coordinate, I write it down. I do not treat instead of the treating team, and I do not decide against it.
What applies if the goal of treatment changes is on a page of its own: When treatment no longer reaches its goal.
Confidentiality
You reach me by telephone at ⟨+49 XXX XXXXXXX⟩. In writing via Threema, ID ⟨XXXXXXXX⟩ — registration there requires neither your telephone number nor access to your address book. The same deadline stated above applies to both routes. I am not reachable via WhatsApp: the content of a message is encrypted there, the fact of the contact is not — and in an intensive care case that is the information that actually needs protecting.
Do not send records by e-mail and not by fax. You receive an upload link from me that applies to your case only and requires no user account. The storage stands in Falkenstein, Germany. The link expires automatically after ⟨N⟩ days; after that the file is no longer reachable there.
Access is held by me and, during an announced absence and only in relation to your case, by my named deputy ⟨VERTRETUNG⟩, ⟨FACHARZTQUALIFIKATION DER VERTRETUNG⟩. No secretariat, no assistant, no agency. The four companies that operate the technology — ⟨WEBSITE-HOSTER⟩ for the website and the form, Hetzner Online in Gunzenhausen for the file drop, Heinlein Hosting in Berlin for the mail, Threema in Switzerland for the messenger — are bound by contract as processors and are additionally obliged in writing to secrecy under Section 203(4) of the German Criminal Code. All four operate their own servers in Germany or Switzerland.
One exception, which I name because otherwise someone else will find it: on an iPhone, the notification of an incoming Threema message technically runs through Apple’s push service. The content is not readable there. That a message has arrived is.
Your records lie with me on an encrypted drive, with an encrypted offline backup in a second location. If no mandate comes about, I delete them within 30 days. If one does, I keep them for ten years after completion — Section 630f(3) of the German Civil Code requires that. You receive a copy on request at any time.
I sign a non-disclosure agreement if you have one. I also have my own, which I send you on request.
This site loads nothing from external servers: no fonts, no maps, no statistics, no cookie. You can check that in your browser’s network tab. What my server logs and for how long is stated in the privacy notice under „Server-Protokolle".
What I do not do
What I do not offer: second opinions without records, prognoses on the telephone, and hope for which there is no finding.
- No second course of treatment against the treating team.
- No prognosis on the telephone.
- No remote treatment without examination of the individual case.
- No alternative medicine.
- No doctrine of temperaments or humours.
- No promise of outcomes.
- No remuneration for referral.