Profession · Medicine
Psychiatrist in Germany
Also called: psychiatry specialist, mental health physician
A psychiatrist diagnoses and treats mental disorders such as depression, psychosis and addiction with medication and psychotherapy.
Facharzt/-ärztin - Psychiatrie und PsychotherapieSpecialist training after university
Facts
In GermanFacharzt/-ärztin - Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie
Path into the professiona university degree, then specialist training on the job
Where to study for it
Specialities that lead to the profession, and programmes in them.
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