Pebio editorial team · Last updated: 30 October 2026
Physician Assistant
What is on your mind?
Training and degrees
- Medizinische Assistenz (grundständig) (Studium)
- Medizinische Assistenz (weiterführend) (Studium)
Source: BA-Berufenet · As of 2026-11-01
Pay scales and minimum rates
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There is no verified statement on statutory pay under the BGB for this occupation yet.
Statutory minimum wage
Statutory
€13.90 per hour
valid from 2026-01-01, until 2026-12-31
§ 1 Nr. 1 MiLoV5: „ab 1. Januar 2026 13,90 Euro brutto je Zeitstunde“
Source: Fifth Minimum Wage Adjustment Ordinance (MiLoV5), Federal Law Gazette 2025 I No. 268 · As of 2026-10-27
Upcoming rates (1)
Statutory
€14.60 per hour
valid from 2027-01-01 · upcoming
§ 1 Nr. 2 MiLoV5: „ab 1. Januar 2027 14,60 Euro brutto je Zeitstunde“
Source: Fifth Minimum Wage Adjustment Ordinance (MiLoV5), Federal Law Gazette 2025 I No. 268 · As of 2026-10-27
Terms explained
- Generally binding collective agreement (AVE)
- A collective agreement that the labour ministry has declared binding for all employers in a sector – even without union membership.
- Framework agreement (Manteltarifvertrag)
- Sets general working conditions such as working hours, leave and notice periods, not the level of pay.
- Pay agreement (Entgelttarifvertrag)
- Sets how much is paid per pay grade.
- Pay grade (Entgeltgruppe)
- The classification by task and qualification. It decides which amount in the pay table applies to you.
Which pay scale might apply to you?
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BMAS collective agreement registerCareer: possible moves
Occupations people move to from this one. Every rating shows how it was derived.
- Case Manager Gesundheit
Pflege & Gesundheit
Editorially selected · Dataset as of 2026-05-24
Rating: leicht
about 12 months
Derivation
What you bring: care_documentation, nursing_care, Partner Communication, Problem Solving, Service Operations
Check this switchAccording to the dataset: qualification paths
Show qualification routes (1)
- Pflegefachliche oder therapeutische Spezialisierung(required)
1 option
- Fachweiterbildung im Pflegebereich, 6-12 Monate, DKG/DGKP
- Pflegefachliche oder therapeutische Spezialisierung(required)
- Stationsleitung
Pflege & Gesundheit
Editorially selected · Dataset as of 2026-05-24
Rating: schwer
about 18 months
Derivation
What you bring: care_coordination, care_documentation, Medikamentengabe, nursing_care, Team Leadership
What is still missing: Behandlungspflege, Budget, Compliance, quality_management_health
Check this switchAccording to the dataset: qualification paths
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- Erweiterte Pflegekompetenz oder Managementqualifikation(required)
2 options
- Weiterbildung Pflegemanagement/PDL, 12-18 Monate, DKG/Akademien
- Bachelor Pflegewissenschaft, 6-8 Semester, Hochschule
- Erweiterte Pflegekompetenz oder Managementqualifikation(required)
Further paths have not been researched reliably yet.
Where else you can go
Routes many people do not think of straight away. Every statement names source and date; what is missing reads “not documented yet”.
Master's in physician assistance
You deepen clinical cases beyond bachelor level and carry that into further specialties. On the medical team you take on more demanding delegated tasks and join in leadership and organisation.
Why you fit
Entry is a bachelor's degree in physician assistance or in medical assistance with a surgical focus. The German Medical Association describes professional specialisation as a master's programme, including leadership and organisational management.
The route there
- Further training and exam
- Work-integrated part-time study, Master of Science, 120 credit points, in a blended format. Entry: a first degree in surgical medical assistance or physician assistance with 180 ECTS and a grade of 2.5 or better, one year of in-person experience in patient care and a current employment relationship with a medical institution.
Source: Fliedner University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf, Master Physician Assistant · As of 2026-10-30 (retrieved)
- Duration
- 5 semesters, starting in the summer semester.
Source: Fliedner University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf, Master Physician Assistant · As of 2026-10-30 (retrieved)
- Cost
- not documented yet
- Funding
- The Act provides funding for a master's programme that builds on a bachelor's degree if you have so far completed only a bachelor's degree. The student-finance office checks whether your institution and your case qualify.
Source: section 7 (1a) Federal Training Assistance Act (BAföG) · As of 2026-10-30 (retrieved)
- Salary
- not documented yet
- Particulars
- There is still no professional statute that fixes the job title. Physician assistants work by delegation and under medical supervision; services that a physician must perform in person stay with the physician. Further professional specialisation is described solely as a master's programme.
Source: German Medical Association, position paper on physician assistance, April 2025, preamble, parts I and VII · As of 2025-04 (position paper, retrieved 2026-10-30)
Your next step: Check admission at Fliedner with your transcript and employment contract, and apply for student funding before you start.
Intensive-care physician assistant
You join diagnostics, monitoring and treatment on the intensive-care unit and in anaesthesia, under medical delegation. The programme practises the workflows in simulation and in supervised placements.
Why you fit
The bachelor's degree as a physician assistant is the admission route at this university. The German Medical Association names intensive and emergency medicine as a field of an add-on master's programme.
The route there
- Further training and exam
- Accredited Master of Science, 120 ECTS, alongside work in a live online model, with no admission cap. Entry is a first degree as a physician assistant or a comparable degree. Content covers intensive care, anaesthesiology and emergency medicine, plus simulation and supervised placements.
Source: SRH University, Physician Assistant Intensive Care Medicine (M.Sc.) · As of 2026-10-30 (retrieved)
- Duration
- 4 semesters. In each of the first three semesters there are four teaching blocks from Monday to Friday, one of them on site in Heide. The programme includes 13 weeks of placements, mainly on intensive-care units and in anaesthesia.
Source: SRH University, Physician Assistant Intensive Care Medicine (M.Sc.) · As of 2026-10-30 (retrieved)
- Cost
- not documented yet
- Funding
- The Act provides funding for a master's programme that builds on a bachelor's degree if you have so far completed only a bachelor's degree. The student-finance office checks whether your institution and your case qualify.
Source: section 7 (1a) Federal Training Assistance Act (BAföG) · As of 2026-10-30 (retrieved)
- Salary
- not documented yet
- Particulars
- For an add-on master's programme the German Medical Association names intensive and emergency medicine and paediatrics as highly specialised care settings, plus research, teaching, staff posts, organisational management, quality management, risk management, leadership and a mentoring role.
Source: German Medical Association, position paper on physician assistance, April 2025, part VII · As of 2025-04 (position paper, retrieved 2026-10-30)
Your next step: Check admission and placement hospitals with SRH University. Apply for student funding before the programme starts.
Emergency-care physician assistant
In the emergency department you assess and treat illness, injury and poisoning under medical delegation. That includes diagnostics, procedures and coordination in the team.
Why you fit
The bachelor's degree as a physician assistant is the admission route. The German Medical Association counts emergency medicine among the fields of an add-on master's programme.
The route there
- Further training and exam
- Accredited Master of Science, 120 ECTS, in a live online model. Entry is a bachelor's degree as a physician assistant or a comparable degree. Teaching covers diagnostics, treatment and procedures in clinical emergency medicine, plus practice management, quality management, risk management and patient safety.
Source: SRH University, Physician Assistant Clinical Emergency Medicine (M.Sc.) · As of 2026-10-30 (retrieved)
- Duration
- 4 semesters. In each of the first three semesters four weeks of placements are scheduled, mainly in emergency departments, anaesthesia and paediatric emergency medicine, 12 weeks in all.
Source: SRH University, Physician Assistant Clinical Emergency Medicine (M.Sc.) · As of 2026-10-30 (retrieved)
- Cost
- not documented yet
- Funding
- The Act provides funding for a master's programme that builds on a bachelor's degree if you have so far completed only a bachelor's degree. The student-finance office checks whether your institution and your case qualify.
Source: section 7 (1a) Federal Training Assistance Act (BAföG) · As of 2026-10-30 (retrieved)
- Salary
- not documented yet
- Particulars
- The university also names a route to a doctorate and to an academic career after the degree.
Source: SRH University, Physician Assistant Clinical Emergency Medicine (M.Sc.) · As of 2026-10-30 (retrieved)
Your next step: Ask SRH University how the full-time blocks fit your post, and apply for student funding before you start.
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Outpatient-care physician assistant
You work in outpatient and cross-sector care on diagnostics, treatment, prevention and on running the practice. Quality and care management and coordination between professions are part of that.
Why you fit
The programme is aimed at graduates of a bachelor's degree in physician assistance. The university aligns the content with the German Medical Association position paper of April 2025.
The route there
- Further training and exam
- Full-time study over 4 semesters for graduates of a bachelor's degree in physician assistance with at least 180 ECTS. Content covers outpatient medicine, diagnostics and treatment, digital medicine, quality and process management, patient safety, practice management and good clinical practice.
Source: MSB Medical School Berlin, Physician Assistant with a focus on outpatient care (M.Sc.) · As of 2026-10-30 (retrieved)
- Duration
- 4 semesters full time, starting on 1 October.
Source: MSB Medical School Berlin, Physician Assistant with a focus on outpatient care (M.Sc.) · As of 2026-10-30 (retrieved)
- Cost
- not documented yet
- Funding
- The Act provides funding for a master's programme that builds on a bachelor's degree if you have so far completed only a bachelor's degree. The student-finance office checks whether your institution and your case qualify.
Source: section 7 (1a) Federal Training Assistance Act (BAföG) · As of 2026-10-30 (retrieved)
- Salary
- not documented yet
- Particulars
- The body text says the master's programme is in the process of state recognition and subject accreditation. Elsewhere on the same page it says the programme is accredited and state-recognised. Fields the university names include quality and risk management, health-services research, the medical review service, health insurers, associations of statutory health insurance physicians, accident-insurance funds, the public-health service, and staff, leadership and mentoring roles.
Source: MSB Medical School Berlin, Physician Assistant with a focus on outpatient care (M.Sc.) · As of 2026-10-30 (retrieved)
Your next step: Ask the university in writing about the status of recognition and accreditation before you sign a study contract.
Quality and risk management
You shape quality and risk management in care, including documentation, patient safety and process control. The field sits beside the single delegated treatment.
Why you fit
Quality management, documentation and the payment system are part of the bachelor's curriculum in the position paper. For specialisation the same paper names an add-on master's programme, including quality management and risk management.
The route there
- Further training and exam
- Further professionalisation for subject specialisation is described solely as a master's programme. The fields include quality management, risk management, staff posts and organisational management.
Source: German Medical Association, position paper on physician assistance, April 2025, part VII · As of 2025-04 (position paper, retrieved 2026-10-30)
- Duration
- not documented yet
- Cost
- not documented yet
- Funding
- The Act provides funding for a master's programme that builds on a bachelor's degree if you have so far completed only a bachelor's degree. The student-finance office checks whether your institution and your case qualify.
Source: section 7 (1a) Federal Training Assistance Act (BAföG) · As of 2026-10-30 (retrieved)
- Salary
- not documented yet
Your next step: Compare master's programmes that cover quality and risk management against the position paper, and apply for student funding before you start.
Teaching and programme leadership
You teach on a physician-assistance programme and supervise students in practice. Physicians or physician assistants can lead such a programme.
Why you fit
The German Medical Association names teaching and a mentoring role as fields of an add-on master's programme. Supervising induction and students is part of the competence framework.
The route there
- Further training and exam
- Under the position paper an add-on master's programme qualifies you for teaching and a mentoring role. Programme leadership can be held by physicians or by physician assistants.
Source: German Medical Association, position paper on physician assistance, April 2025, parts III and VII · As of 2025-04 (position paper, retrieved 2026-10-30)
- Duration
- not documented yet
- Cost
- not documented yet
- Funding
- The Act provides funding for a master's programme that builds on a bachelor's degree if you have so far completed only a bachelor's degree. The student-finance office checks whether your institution and your case qualify.
Source: section 7 (1a) Federal Training Assistance Act (BAföG) · As of 2026-10-30 (retrieved)
- Salary
- not documented yet
Your next step: Ask universities that run a physician-assistance programme about teaching contracts and the qualification they require.
Research and clinical studies
You contribute to clinical studies. In the position paper, research is a field of the add-on master's programme.
Why you fit
Contributing to clinical studies is part of the German Medical Association competence framework. Research is also a field of the add-on master's programme.
The route there
- Further training and exam
- Research is one of the fields of an add-on master's programme. Contributing to clinical studies is already described as a task in the competence framework.
Source: German Medical Association, position paper on physician assistance, April 2025, parts VII and VIII · As of 2025-04 (position paper, retrieved 2026-10-30)
- Duration
- not documented yet
- Cost
- not documented yet
- Funding
- The Act provides funding for a master's programme that builds on a bachelor's degree if you have so far completed only a bachelor's degree. The student-finance office checks whether your institution and your case qualify.
Source: section 7 (1a) Federal Training Assistance Act (BAföG) · As of 2026-10-30 (retrieved)
- Salary
- not documented yet
Your next step: Ask your institution about studies that are under way, and compare master's programmes with a research component against the position paper.
Advanced skills in your specialty
After the bachelor's degree you take on more demanding delegated tasks in your department, for example in functional diagnostics, emergency care or the operating theatre. Which task you perform is set by the physician's choice, instruction and supervision.
Why you fit
The bachelor's degree brings the basic and extended competences. Special competences are then meant to grow through work experience, further training and your aptitude.
The route there
- Further training and exam
- The German Medical Association supports physician assistants taking part in physicians' further training run by specialist societies and by the medical chambers. Special competences are to be developed after the bachelor's degree through practical experience and additional courses.
Source: German Medical Association, position paper on physician assistance, April 2025, parts VI and VIII · As of 2025-04 (position paper, retrieved 2026-10-30)
- Duration
- not documented yet
- Cost
- not documented yet
- Funding
- not documented yet
- Salary
- not documented yet
- Particulars
- The German Medical Association suggests adding a completed physician-assistance degree to section 6.3 of the guideline on radiation-protection expertise for people with other medical training. The paper does not say whether the guideline already lists the degree.
Source: German Medical Association, position paper on physician assistance, April 2025, part VI · As of 2025-04 (position paper, retrieved 2026-10-30)
Your next step: With the delegating physician and the medical chamber, clarify which further training counts for your department and whether radiation-protection expertise is open to you.
Master's in another health field
You study a neighbouring subject, such as public health, digital health, crisis and emergency management or pain management. What you do afterwards depends on the programme.
Why you fit
The German Society of Physician Assistants writes that master's programmes in other health fields are also possible after the bachelor's degree in physician assistance. It names crisis and emergency management, public health, pain management and digital health.
The route there
- Further training and exam
- Besides the physician-assistance master's programmes, the association names crisis and emergency management, public health, pain management and digital health as further master's routes.
Source: German Society of Physician Assistants, physician assistance study page · As of 2026-10-30 (retrieved)
- Duration
- not documented yet
- Cost
- not documented yet
- Funding
- The Act provides funding for a master's programme that builds on a bachelor's degree if you have so far completed only a bachelor's degree. The student-finance office checks whether your institution and your case qualify.
Source: section 7 (1a) Federal Training Assistance Act (BAföG) · As of 2026-10-30 (retrieved)
- Salary
- not documented yet
Your next step: Match the admission rules of the specific master's programme to your bachelor's transcript, and apply for student funding before you start.
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