About Frauenheilkunde up2date

Frauenheilkunde up2date

Frauenheilkunde up2date is the CME-certified continuing-education journal for gynecologists and obstetricians in clinics and practices, published six times a year by the Georg Thieme Verlag of Stuttgart. As a subscription journal with a unique issue concept, each edition contains CME-certified continuing-education contributions on the core topics of gynecology — with step-by-step instructions, concrete case studies, and SOPs/workflows for quality assurance — letting readers collect up to 72 CME points per year while staying systematically up to date across their entire specialty. It is the journal that turns the continuing-education obligation into a systematic learning program: "Fortbildung mit dem roten Faden" — continuing education with a common thread.

Overview

Frauenheilkunde up2date appears six times a year in German (ISSN 1439-3719) as the continuing-education journal that keeps the whole specialty in view and delivers directly applicable practice knowledge — the journal for the clinic and the practice, for the hospital gynecologist and the office-based obstetrician. The print run is 1,230 copies; the distributed circulation 1,200; the paid circulation 1,120 (first half of 2025) — the focused circulation of a specialist CME journal, every copy reaching a gynecologist or obstetrician. The annual subscription costs 241 euros for private customers (563 euros institutional) — the pricing of a specialist medical CME journal, the investment in the certified continuing education.

The journal's promise is "Fortbildung mit dem roten Faden" (continuing education with a common thread): starting from the curriculum, it covers the specialty completely, updating systematically so readers automatically stay current — "Wir aktualisieren mit System – Sie bleiben automatisch dran" (we update systematically — you automatically stay on it). Learning from concrete cases — comparing with one's own patients — is the method: nothing is more memorable than learning from concrete cases, which is why every up2date carries more of them. The CME contributions of designated experts, the step-by-step instructions in strong images, and the SOPs/workflows for quality assurance complete the concept. The clear language and design ensure high reading comfort and help readers understand and retain the content — the didactics of the continuing-education journal, the learning made relaxed ("Entspannt weiterkommen"), the journal as the specialist's calm study companion.

History

Frauenheilkunde up2date is part of Thieme's up2date family — the CME-certified continuing-education journals that the Georg Thieme Verlag publishes across the medical specialties, each following the same systematic concept: the curriculum-based, complete coverage of the specialty with CME certification, the "roter Faden" (common thread) as the brand's signature. The journal's history is the history of the CME system in German medicine: the certified continuing education that gynecologists and obstetricians must document for their chambers, served by a journal designed around the CME points — up to 72 per year, the points that keep the specialist's certification current.

The subscriptions always start with the first issue of the calendar year (back issues supplied where available or electronically); the subscription renews for another calendar year unless cancelled by 30 September — the annual rhythm of the continuing-education year. The digital extensions — the eRef intelligent knowledge platform (all contributions available digitally), the eRef app, and the digital binder — reflect the journal's evolution from the print CME journal to the cross-media continuing-education system: the print issues, the digital archive, and the mobile app as one learning environment, the contributions available "jederzeit" (anytime) for reading and research — the continuing education freed from the print schedule.

Coverage and Content

The continuing-education contributions' rubrics span the specialty: Allgemeine Gynäkologie (general gynecology), Diagnostik (diagnostics), Forum, Geburtshilfe und Perinatalmedizin (obstetrics and perinatal medicine), Gynäkologische Endokrinologie und Reproduktionsmedizin (gynecological endocrinology and reproductive medicine), Gynäkologische Onkologie (gynecological oncology), Interdisziplinäre Themen (interdisciplinary topics), Operative Gynäkologie (operative gynecology), Schritt für Schritt (step by step — the visual instructions), SOP/Arbeitsablauf (SOP/workflow — the quality-assurance procedures), and Studienreferate (study reviews — the literature digests).

The content is current, guideline-compliant (leitliniengerecht), and aligned with the Curriculum Frauenheilkunde und Geburtshilfe: the evidence-based specialist knowledge directly applicable — "Bewusst entscheiden, souverän handeln" (decide consciously, act confidently) — the CME contributions, the step-by-step instructions, the case studies, and the SOPs/workflows for quality assurance. The Thieme Connect abstracts (e.g., the 2023 guideline on female urinary incontinence diagnostics and therapy by Gert Naumann, with the key messages on stress incontinence, overactive bladder, the stepwise diagnostics, and the conservative-first treatment; the 2014 obstetric-emergencies contribution by Alexander Strauss et al., originally from Notfallmedizin up2date, on the preclinical assessment of pregnancy and birth emergencies — the physiological changes of pregnancy tabulated, the two-patients-at-once care) document the guideline-based approach: the current guidelines presented with the new study findings, the key messages distilled for the practice, the cross-specialty fertilization within the up2date family.

Organization and Ownership

Frauenheilkunde up2date is published by the Georg Thieme Verlag KG, Stuttgart — one of the world's leading medical and scientific publishers, the Stuttgart house for medicine, whose journals, books, and digital platforms serve the medical professions worldwide, with the New York office extending the transatlantic reach. The journal is part of Thieme's medical journal portfolio and the up2date CME family — the certified continuing-education journals across the specialties, each with the unique issue concept, each with the CME-certified contributions on the specialty's core topics, each with the "roter Faden" of the systematic curriculum coverage. The media data (thieme-media.thieme.com) documents the circulation: 1,230 print run, 1,200 distributed, 1,120 paid (H1 2025) — the audited numbers of the specialist journal, the advertiser's verified reach into the gynecologists' and obstetricians' clinics and practices, the pharmaceutical and device industry's targeted audience.

The economics are the specialist medical-publisher model: the subscriptions (241 euros private, 563 institutional, with the midwife preferential price at 238 euros and the student/trainee price at 297 euros) fund the CME-certified content — the expert authors, the CME certification, the didactics — with the pharmaceutical and medical-device advertising as the additional revenue, the industry's natural advertising home in the gynecologists' journal. The free binder with the topic index for the continuing-education contributions is the subscriber service — the physical archive of the CME learning, orderable free, the journal's issues filed by topic.

Digital Presence

The journal's digital home spans the Thieme shop (shop.thieme.de — the subscription and single-issue ordering), the eRef intelligent knowledge platform (all contributions available digitally — the searchable, cross-linked knowledge base), the eRef app (the mobile continuing education), and the digital binder (the digital archive of the contributions) — the cross-media continuing-education system. The Thieme Connect e-journals carry the abstracts with DOIs (10.1055/...), indexed and citable — the scientific visibility of the contributions. The free trial issue ("Probelesen") lets new readers test the current issue completely without obligation — the email reminder managing the trial's end, the subscription starting only if the reader doesn't object within 14 days.

For the gynecologists and obstetricians — the specialists who must document their continuing education and stay current across the specialty's breadth, from the general gynecology to the obstetrics to the oncology, from the clinic to the practice — Frauenheilkunde up2date's six issues a year provide the CME-certified continuing education with the common thread: the systematic, curriculum-based, guideline-compliant knowledge, directly applicable in clinic and practice, with up to 72 CME points a year — "Genau das, was Sie in Klinik und Praxis brauchen" (exactly what you need in clinic and practice), the Thieme journal that keeps the women's-health specialty learning, one CME-certified issue at a time — the systematic continuing education of the gynecologists, the common thread through the whole specialty, always up2date.