DEUOverview
Two-year field epidemiology training programme run by the RKI since 1996, closely linked to the ECDC EPIET/EUPHEM programmes, training scientists in infectious disease epidemiology for the German public health service; fellows may be placed at RKI or at state/municipal public health training sites.
The programme
- Focus
- Applied / field infectious disease epidemiology
- Training type
- Specialist training programme
- Duration
- 2 years
- Start
- Not stated on official page
- Positions
- Up to four applicants accepted each year
- Accreditation
- EPIET-associated programme (ECDC)
- Department
- Not stated on official page
Eligibility and visa
- Eligibility
- University degree in human medicine (similar careers in justified cases); knowledge of public health/epidemiological methods; at least two years' relevant professional experience; German and English at CEFR C1 or higher
- International applicants
- Possible only with German and English at C1 level; no explicit nationality restriction stated
- Visa support
- Not stated on official page
- Licence requirement
- Not stated on official page
How to apply
- Deadline
- Not stated on official page
- Application method
- Not stated on official page
Funding
- Funding
- Participants are formally employed by the RKI for the training period (state infection-control staff may also participate)