Career

The University Hospital Tübingen is a leading centre of German university medicine. The University Eye Hospital Tübingen, under the direction of Prof. Dr. Bartz-Schmidt, offers the spectrum of maximum care for the diagnosis and therapy of diseases of the eye, the ocular adnexa, the optic nerve and the visual pathway. Together with the Research Institute of Ophthalmology, the University Eye Hospital forms the Department of Ophthalmology, which is one of the 13 medical centers of excellence in the state of Baden-Württemberg and among them the only one for ophthalmology. Planning and conducting preclinical and clinical research are as much a part of the clinic's expertise as the implementation of innovative developments of new therapeutic procedures. The University Eye Hospital offers its patients medical care tailored to their individual needs and has at its disposal new forms of treatment and surgical techniques so that highly complex interventions can be carried out. Every year, 60,000 patients receive advice and treatment in the outpatient clinics and consultation hours. The eye clinic performs 20,000 outpatient and inpatient operations annually.

Impressions of the University Eye Hospital Tübingen

Main entrance of the eye clinic
Image film of the eye clinic

Residency

Specialist training

For the German specialist training at the University Eye Hospital Tübingen you have to adapt to the assistant rotation system of the University Eye Hospital (Curriculum Ophthalmology). The staff senior physicians will make the allocation. You will find out a quarter of a year in advance to which area you will rotate next in order to meet the requirements of the LÄK Baden-Württemberg for specialist training in ophthalmology. Changes may occur due to operational reasons. As a rule, you will have passed through all the prescribed wards for specialist training in about 5 to 6 years.

Surgical training is excluded during the entire specialist training. At the University Eye Hospital Tübingen, practical skills in ophthalmological surgery are only acquired as a specialist.

Contact

Reetta Eyring

+49 7071 29-84828

reetta.eyring@med.uni-tuebingen.de


Please send your applications by e-mail or by post. Incomplete applications will not be considered.
A few, select applicants will receive an invitation to attend a first interview. All others will be cancelled. Please stay in very close contact at all times once you have been accepted.


Experienced residents are allowed to assist in minor procedures in consultation with the specialists or to perform them themselves under supervision at a very late stage in their training.

The most important prerequisites for good integration are above all the language, the acquisition of certain knowledge, skills, attitudes and, above all, the will to adapt to the various peculiarities in the team, the clinic, the specific working environment in the individual areas and across professions.

Requirements for applicants from abroad

  • Cover letter
    Why do you want to come to Tübingen? - (maximum 1 page)
  • Curriculum vitae
    • First name
    • Last name
    • Date of birth
    • Current portrait (not older than three months)
  • University degree
    Detailed list of all subjects and a transcript of records
  • Letters of recommendation
    from specialists or research associates with whom you have worked.
  • Copies of passed international exams (e.g. USMLE, ICO exam, EEO diploma or Clinical Skills Test (CS)).
  • Proof of your specialist qualification
  • Proof of additional specializations and further training in ophthalmology
  • Language certificates (German)

Visiting Scientist

Guest scientists are allowed to work in one of our research projects for a limited period of time after they have been accepted.

Requirements

General qualifications

  • Students of medicine and biology
  • Biologists and physicians

Language qualifications

  • English (very good, written and spoken)
  • German (very good, written and spoken)

Contact

Maria Uchwat

+49 7071 29-84764

07071 29-4763


Please send your applications by e-mail or by post. Incomplete applications will not be considered.
A few, select applicants will receive an invitation to attend a first interview. All others will be cancelled. Please stay in very close contact at all times once you have been accepted.

E-mail address: maria.uchwat@med.uni-tuebingen.de


Hospitants

For a maximum of four weeks, approved interested parties (pupils, students, doctors, specialists) can "run along" in the eye clinic and get to know our processes and procedures a little.

Prerequisites

General requirements

  • Medical students
  • Doctors with completed further training in ophthalmology (not an absolute requirement)

Hospitations in the OP

  • If you are already an ophthalmologist, you are preferred to observe in the OR (but not to work).
  • Medical students and physicians in further training are given the opportunity to observe in the operating room, however, they cannot be assigned there preferentially.

Contact

Maria Uchwat

+49 7071 29-84764

07071 29-4763


Please send your applications by e-mail or by post. Incomplete applications will not be considered.
A few, select applicants will receive an invitation to attend a first interview. All others will be cancelled. Please stay in very close contact at all times once you have been accepted.

E-mail address: maria.uchwat@med.uni-tuebingen.de


Requirements for applicants from abroad

Many requirements have to be fulfilled in order to work at the University Eye Hospital in Tübingen as a visiting doctor or visiting scientist. Please be prepared to deal with a lot of bureaucracy, some of which must be completed long before you can come to Germany.

Hospitants have it much easier in this respect, but must also complete various administrative tasks in advance and provide certain evidence before you are allowed to come to the eye hospital.

  • Complete German residency.
  • Participation of at least one year in the assistant rotation system of the University Eye Hospital.
  • Work for a maximum of three months in a specific area (after consultation and approval by the area senior physician).
  • Language [German]
    Proof: C1-Certificate
    Proof: C1-Certificate especially for medical doctors
  • Qualification
    Proof: German licence to practise medicine
  • Funding 
    Official scholarship: which covers the equivalent doctor's salary (personnel costs)

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