Your advanced training
Practice instructor
Duration of advanced training: 11 or 12 months (depending on the start of advanced training)
Start of advanced training: Mid-January (courses in Freiburg), new from 2026: Mid-September (1 course in Bad Krozingen, 1 course in Freiburg)
Application deadline (only applies to internal applicants): April 30 for the course starting in January, January 31 for the course starting in September




The next advanced training course is expected to start in January 2027.
- Nurses with a professional license according to § 1 of the Nursing Care Professions Act
- Midwife/ maternity nurse
- Surgical assistant
- Anesthesia technical assistant
- Medical technologist for laboratory analysis (MTL)
- Medical technologist for radiology (MTR)
- Medical assistant
- Physiotherapist
The aim of advanced training is to enable students and new employees to provide competent support and guidance during practical training.
This includes the acquisition of technical, methodological, social and personal skills, as well as the ability to design, monitor and assess learning processes.
Total scope: 300 hours, divided into modules
Our advanced training is offered in modules. Modules are self-contained learning units. The content of the basic modules can be credited towards advanced training in intensive care, intermediate care, pediatric intensive care and anesthesia care.
The theoretical lessons take place in block weeks.
Teaching times: Mon-Fri, 8.30 am - 4.00 pm
Location: classrooms at the Academy for Medical Professions at the Medical Center - University of Freiburg and seminar rooms at the Bad Krozingen campus
Basic modules: 100 hours in total
The basic module teaches the content and basics of practical guidance. The special feature of this module is that it covers parts of other advanced training courses in nursing according to DKG. They address fundamental topics from the related sciences that go beyond the field of application.
Specialist modules in practical guidance: total: 200 hours
Specialist modules impart relevant specialized knowledge.


- After successfully completing the advanced training, you will receive the certificate "Practice Instructor in Healthcare".
- The advanced training concludes after passing two module examinations.
- Participation is free of charge for employees of the hospital.
- The course fee for external participants is €2,825.
- The course comprises a total of 304 teaching units.
- You will receive 30 continuing education points as part of the registration of professional nursing care staff.

Christiane Ranft
Dipl. Pflegepädagogin (FH)
0761 270-64240
christiane.ranft@uniklinik-freiburg.de

Dagmar Scheuring
M.A. Educational Science/Adult Education
B.A. Nursing Education
Phone 0761 270-64240
dagmar.scheuring@uniklinik-freiburg.de
