The doctors employed by the Curia and the section of the Vienna Medical Association congratulate all future medical students on passing the medical entrance test (MedAT).
Johannes Steinhart, President of the Vienna and Austrian Medical Associations, reacts happily: “We wish our future colleagues much success in their studies and are pleased that interest in studying medicine and thus in the medical profession continues to be so high. Anyone who has passed the MedAT shows early on that he or she is capable of achieving high performance under pressure. We are committed to ensuring that students can pursue their future careers under optimal conditions. This requires the solidarity-based health system to be made more attractive.”
The Curia Chairwoman of the employed doctors and Vice President of the Medical Association for Vienna as well as Section Chairwoman of the Federal Section for Internship Doctors in the Austrian Medical Association, Natalja Haninger-Vacariu, encourages future students: “The time spent studying flies by faster than you think. I would therefore like to tell all students to enjoy and successfully cope with this very beautiful, important, but also demanding phase of life.” She also emphasizes the importance of attractive training places. Those responsible, from politicians to hospital authorities, must do everything they can to ensure that there are enough good training places after studying, with a balanced ratio between training places and trainees, maintaining the training key between specialist and training doctor and making the training structure inherently attractive. What is important is not the sheer number of study places, but rather “ensuring training quality at the highest level,” says Haninger-Vacariu.
The first deputy curia chairman of the curia also employed doctors from the Medical Association for Vienna, Eduardo Maldonado-Gonzalez, does not see the increase in study places discussed in the media as an adequate means: “We have to concentrate on how we can create the best possible structure for the students so that bright minds can successfully complete their training after their studies and then also the federal capital as doctors remain. Because we already need significantly more staff in the hospitals. We are therefore looking forward to our future colleagues.”
The second deputy Curia Chairwoman of the Curia employed doctors of the Medical Association for Vienna, Anna Kreil, therefore insists on setting a comprehensive course: “The students have a long journey ahead of them. After six years of study, there are still challenging years in clinical practice with increasing responsibility until you can carry out your medical work completely independently. Extensive practical experience in medicine can only be acquired if medical supervision is sufficiently guaranteed.”
Bernhard Schönthoner, Section Chairman of the Internship Doctors Section, wishes the students much success and also rejects the demand for study places: “We must not forget that MedUni Vienna currently offers every student a place in the lecture hall and in small groups. More students would therefore also mean that universities would be faced with enormous organizational problems – and that would in turn have a negative impact on studies. In addition, graduates now wait several months after completing their studies to begin their medical training. An increase in study places would make this even worse.”
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