Ärztliche Schulung

The ärztliche Schulung is the training a physician gives a pharmacist before that pharmacist may take blood from a vein. It is written into § 11c Apothekengesetz, the provision the ApoVWG introduced, and it is the condition that decides whether a pharmacy can offer the service at all.

Three points define who may carry out the draw:

1. The person carrying out the draw must be an approbierter Apotheker.
2. That person must have completed an ärztliche Schulung beforehand.
3. Completion must be confirmed as successful rather than merely attended.

The content is being standardised through the Mustercurriculum, which the Bundesapothekerkammer is preparing together with the Bundesärztekammer and which is due by 2 November 2026. A pharmacy does not have to wait for it, because the Mustercurriculum standardises the training without deciding when the service may start.

Delegation follows the same rule, so only the puncture itself may be delegated, only to a Pharmazeut im Praktikum under supervision, and that person needs their own ärztliche Schulung. A PTA may not carry out the venöse Blutentnahme at all, so no amount of training changes that.

The confirmation of successful completion belongs in the quality management system, next to the Standardarbeitsanweisungen for the draw. A supervising authority asking whether a pharmacy is entitled to offer blood collection will ask for exactly that document.