Education to be completed	Germany	Poland
DE inpatient basic training in a field of internal medicine PL module 1	36 months	36 months/3 years including § Basic education internal medicine 70 weeks § Intensive medicine 4 weeks § Cardiology 16 weeks § Pulmonology, gastroenterology, endocrinology respectively 6 weeks § Nephrology, haematology, rheumatology, infectiology, neurology respectively 3 weeks § Psychiatry 2 weeks
	36 months	Specialisation courses 7 weeks
DE inpatient training in internal medicine PL module 2	24 months including 6 months of internal intensive medicine, which can be completed during basic training	24 months including § Internal medicine 44 weeks § Intensive medicine 4 weeks § Cardiology 6 weeks § Pulmonology, gastroenterology respectively 4 weeks § Endocrinology 6 weeks § Nephrology, haematology respectively 3 weeks § Rheumatology 4 weeks § Infectiology 3 weeks § Geriatrics, palliative medicine respectively 2 weeks Healthcare 2 weeks
DE inpatient training in internal medicine PL module 2		Specialisation courses 1 week
Total time	5 years	5 years