From
Franziska Langhammer, Ebersberg
As one of the last young women in Germany, Vanessa Pötzl from Aßling completes her training as a midwife. Since 2020, the profession can be studied as a university subject. Pötzl, who started her training three years ago in October, could have gone to university. “It’s incredibly difficult to get a place,” says the 21-year-old. “I applied to both and saw what it would be like.” She is happy that her training includes many practical hours in the delivery room, operating theater or in the neonatal intensive care unit. At the same time she says: “I am of the opinion that an apprenticeship does not do justice to the demands of the profession.” A three-year training course is simply not enough for the range of tasks that a midwife has to master.