Kieler students are now less glassy.

The University of Kiel relented: If you are a pathological examination reports must be no intimate health reveal more details. The test candidate must be a doctor no longer exempt from the duty. The Asta celebrates a victory - but at many universities is After drilling more commonplace.

 

Students who participate in the Christian-Albrecht University in Kiel because of a disease miss an examination must now no longer complete their illness prior to the audit and thus spread to justify their absence.

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Bedridden: what the candidate is lacking in Kiel is no longer a matter for the university

With a new certificate form, the university adopted it, by the attending physician of the student, the symptoms of the disease to find out if this is for health reasons a test can not participate.

Previously, the university requires that students with their signature on the form the confidentiality of their medical cancel. Literally, it was until a week ago on the form, because the student involved should be clarified, it was necessary, "if necessary, the treating physician of the duty to relieve." In addition, the doctor had symptoms, type and duration of power reduction on paper.

Those who refused, the university threatened to flunk in the corresponding test. It was now in a revised form away.

Dozens of universities require Illness Details

At the University of Kiel at the end of April was the strife between student representatives and university management on the then current
Sick leave form escalates. While the university insisted that, with student representatives agreed to, should, according to a student member of the Central Committee to study the time "to waive the secrecy still be maintained."

For the Kieler Asta is the new form, the university presented a week ago, the controversy over medical confidentiality a small victory - but still exist in dozens of universities further examination, a certificate request as detailed as it was customary in Kiel.

Among the universities, the symptoms and sometimes query the confidentiality of the doctor nullify include some departments at the universities of Munster, Hanover,
Kostanz and
Ulm and at the University of Koblenz. Similarly, handle it, for example, the college
Bingen, the University
Freiburg and the Technical University
Dortmund.

For many other readers of blogs online, it appears that in Germany the queries of disease patterns in test the rule rather than the exception. In connection with the case, Kiel in Schleswig-Holstein Thilo Weichert DPO interference in the privacy of the students than the law, but "politically problematic data" means.

The Asta Kiel wrote to the new form, it was "quite in keeping with the students." The doctor must now only confirm that audit-related symptoms present - what exactly that is remains in Kiel now again a confidential information between doctor and patient.