An imaging medical examination apparatus such as a magnetic resonance apparatus has an image acquisition device, a patient bed, a control device to control the image acquisition means and to move the patient bed as well as a monitor connected with the control device for image output. An operator can designate on the monitor a desired new patient bed position for implementation of further examinations, in an examination image of the patient shown on the monitor that has been acquired with a first patient bed position with the imaging medical examination apparatus. The control device automatically determines the position data of the defined bed position and controls movement of the bed dependent on the determined position data such that the bed subsequently assumes the desired new position.