Günter Burg finished high school in 1960 at the Max von Laue-Highschool in Koblenz, Rheinland-Pfalz.
In Marburg, Homburg/Saar and Saarbrücken he completed his postdoctoral training in pediatrics, pathology, internal medicine, surgery, gynecology, obstetrics, and dermatology.
Burg has several areas of interest, and the most important ones are the following: clinical and experimental dermatology, dermato-oncology (skin cancer), especially cutaneous lymphomas and malignant melanoma, dermatopathology and immunohistochemistry, telemedicine and E-Learning.
Burgs's scientific achievements include comprehensive revision of the WHO classification of cutaneous lymphomas on the basis of morphologic, cytochemical, immunologic, and molecular biologic findings.
Burg's social activities began with a Telemedical pilot project in 1998 In Tanzania (Moshi) "Weltweit hautnah|worldwide-close".