In a medical telemetry system for synchronizing an implantable medical device to a base station of the telemetry system, a communication channel is selected for communication between the implantable medical device and the base station, and the implantable medical device is synchronized to the base station by selecting a synchronizing word associated with the selected channel, wherein at least two different communication channels within the medical telemetry system are associated with different synchronization words. By this procedure, crosstalk is eliminated.
