Vienna Medical Education

Top healthcare research in Vienna … as basis for medical excellence in Vienna

As Executive City Councillor for Public Health it is one of my main objectives to provide all Viennese irrespective of their income, background, age and gender with the best possible healthcare. The City of Vienna strives to provide all its citizens with excellent healthcare focusing on humanity. We have a long tradition of science, research and training in Vienna, which enables us to provide m...

The Vienna Medical School in the nineteenth century

Education at the Vienna University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering: Traditional Lecture Based Education versus Telematics Based Education

The theoretically oriented part of the education at the Vienna University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical and Electronical Engineering, is traditionally given by lectures and seminars. Now we intend to restructure the lecture system at ICT (Institute of Computer Technology) significantly, following special research results of modern learning theory. We expect organizational and educational...

Ideals in Medical Education Ideals in Medical Education

" Is it any depreciation of the great military geniuses of the past to say that, if suddenly plunged into the midst of a modern engagement, they would be worse than worthless, that, without the requisite knowledge and experience, their genius would be useless? Yet do we not desiderate that same genius for our own leaders, without which all their knowledge and experience are of no avail ?..... "...

Competency-based medical education in postgraduate medical education.

With the introduction of Tomorrow's Doctors in 1993, medical education began the transition from a time- and process-based system to a competency-based training framework. Implementing competency-based training in postgraduate medical education poses many challenges but ultimately requires a demonstration that the learner is truly competent to progress in training or to the next phase of a prof...