- 1988 - 1995
- Medical University of Heidelberg, Camden/New Jersey (USA) and Cape Town (South Africa), Medical clerkship e.g. in Jerusalem and Zimbabwe
- 1995 - 1996
- Surgery at Diakonissen-Krankenhaus in Karlsruhe
- 1996 - 1997
- Internal Medicine at Heinrich-Lanz-Krankenhaus in Mannheim
- 1997
- Licence to practice medicine (Approbation) Promotion (Title: Effectiveness of simultaneous radio-chemotherapy for cancer of the esophagus)
- 1997
- General Medicine in Nuremberg
- since 1997
- Periodically working in General Medicine
