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• Written form required: yes
• Personal appearance required: no
• Online service: no

If you want to work as an SHI-accredited doctor or therapist in outpatient care in Germany, you must register with the medical register.

The associations of panel doctors keep a register of doctors for each registration district. The KV in whose area of responsibility your place of residence is located is always responsible for registering you as a doctor (principle of place of residence). Registration in the register of doctors is a basic requirement for admission or employment as an SHI-accredited doctor/psychotherapist.

You must:

• be licensed as a medical doctor, and
• present proof of completion of specialist training or training acquired in another EU member state in accordance with Directive 2005/36 EC.

To be registered as a psychological psychotherapist you must:

• be licensed as a psychological psychotherapist and
• present proof of qualification in the guideline procedure of psychotherapy

• Birth certificate
• Documents proving a possible change of name or the entitlement to use a double name (e.g. marriage certificate)
• Licensing certificate
• If applicable, certificate of graduation
• Certificate of recognition as a specialist or qualification in the guideline procedure for psychotherapy
• Proof/certificates of previous medical/psychotherapeutic activity
• Certificates of completed further training
• Doctorate certificate or proof of the right to use academic degrees or titles
• if applicable, proof of nationality
• in the case of foreign language documents: Translation by a state-recognised translator or translator who has been sworn in by a court in Germany
• for documents from third countries (outside the European Union): apostille or legalisation

Documents must be presented in the original or as an officially certified copy. The medical registers can, under certain circumstances, prepare corresponding certifications.

User Charge: 100 EUR (fix)
according to § 46 Admission Ordinance for Panel Doctors (Ärzte-ZV)
Vorkasse: Nein

You must apply for entry in the medical register in writing to the relevant office using the application form.

• Once you have submitted the required documents and paid the registration fee, you are entitled to be entered in the medical register.
• You will then receive written information about your entry in the medical register.

Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians of the State of Brandenburg (KVBB)

The medical registry office at the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians in whose admission district you live

Note: If you are not resident in the Federal Republic of Germany, you are free to choose the medical register.

• §§ 1 - 10 Admission Ordinance for Contract Physicians (Ärzte-ZV) (Medical Register)
• § 95 a Fifth Book of the Social Code (SGB V) (prerequisite for entry in the medical register for panel doctors)
• § 95 c Fifth Book of the Social Code (SGB V) (prerequisite for the entry of psychotherapists in the medical register)
• Article 30 in conjunction with Annex V.1. Directive 2005/36/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 September 2005 on the recognition of professional qualifications

Please note: The registration of a doctor in the register of a panel doctor association is not to be equated with the registration in the register kept by the State Medical Association.

• Information on the Associations of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians on the website of the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians

Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians Berlin

Department Register of Physicians

Masurenallee 6A

14057 Berlin