Junior assistants and clinical traineeships in the intensive care unit

You will work full-time in the intensive care unit (Monday to Friday 07.00h - 17.00h)

Assignment for supervision and teaching:

• Mentoring during the daily routine by the assigned assistant doctor
• Selective teaching/supervision by senior physician
• Pre-examining and evaluating patients and making therapeutic suggestions with the aim of admitting stable patients
• Writing an exit report for patients without complications
• Participate in the daily ward round
• Participate in training events.
• Get to know intensive care medicine and the associated techniques and monitoring methods of various kinds

• Neurological: assessment of the GCS, delirium problems Cardiovascular: monitoring options, interpretation of the invasive blood pressure curve and central venous pressure. Insertion of an arterial catheter.
• Lungs: options for oxygen administration, mask ventilation, basic features of intensive care ventilation techniques, indications for non-invasive ventilatory support
• Gastrointestinal tract: basics of parenteral/enteral nutrition, blood sugar management, insertion of a gastric tube.
• Kidney: basic renal replacement procedures
• Infectiology: Common infectiological clinical pictures in intensive care medicine, microbiological clarification options
• Interpretation of arterial blood gas analysis, chest X-ray and ECG
• Basic principles of volume and vasoactive drug administration
• Ethical and social aspects of intensive care patient care

• There is an annual quota of vacancies.

• Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.

Program duration

• Two to three months, from the first day of the first month to the last day of the last month. A combination with 2 months of anesthesia is possible.