by Dounia Mettri. Why America? This is probably the easiest question for me to answer. Ever since I started medical school, I knew I wanted to go to America. I’ve always dreamed big and America is THE country if you have big dreams and goals. It’s the country where dreams […]

by Alina Wiedergut. Motivation  Between my third and fourth year of medical school, I decided to apply for an internship at an emergency ward of the “Krankenhaus Köpenick” in Berlin, Germany. I chose Germany, because as an Austrian medical student I was very curious about working habits and teaching attitudes […]

von Elisa Sautner. Motivation Mir wurde die Teilnahme an der Summer School in Rohrbach von einem Studienkollegen empfohlen, der selbst im Jahr vor mir daran teilgenommen hat. Überzeugende Argumente für die Entscheidung an der Summer School teilzunehmen, waren für mich vor allem der wertschätzende Umgang und die flachen Hierarchien in […]

by Marie-Sophie Kaltenbrunner. Some time ago I had the fantastic opportunity to spend three months in beautiful Italy. During my 5th year of medical school I decided to visit a great city in the south of Italy called Naples. I completed three months elective in the subjects Gynaecology, Ophthalmology/ENT and […]

   by Alexander Pichler. From February to March 2018 I was doing a two-months clerkship at the Department of Radiology in the hospital Vivantes Klinik am Urban. This hospital is a part of the Vivantes Hospital Group and a teaching hospital of the Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin.I chose Berlin to become […]

by Raphael Reinecke Students of the Medical University of Vienna (MUV) have the possibility to do electives abroad in their 5th and 6th year of study in the maximal extent of one and a half years in total. There are two options: one can apply for a EU-subsidized ERASMUS+ program […]

by Lisa-Maria Weissenbacher. During my 5th year of med school, I seized the chance to expand my horizon and risked a breakout into the wide world by doing a medical exchange semester. In the last third of studies (5th and 6th year), the Medical University of Vienna (MUW) offers specific programs […]

von Christina Kriechbaum. Motivation für eine Famulatur in Basel  Ich habe mich für eine einmonatige Unterassistenz am Universitätsspital Basel (USB) entschieden, weil ich schon immer wissen wollte, ob die Schweiz wirklich das Mekka für Ärzte ist, wie man so oft hört. Außerdem wusste ich, dass ein Praktikum an einer Universitätsklinik […]

von Johannes Heinzel. Die Motivation zum Auslandsaufenthalt Schon seit Beginn meines Studiums war ich mir sicher, dass ich die großen Freiheiten, die das Curriculum der MUW in Hinsicht auf mögliche Auslandsaufenthalte im fünften und sechsten Studienjahr bietet, gerne bestmöglich ausnutzen wollte. Mir ging es dabei besonders darum, andere Kulturen und insbesondere andere […]

by Hatice Soysal. As part of our studies at the Medical University of Vienna, we are doing clinical electives for 12 months in our final year of medical school. It is up to you, whether you want to do these abroad or at home. How awesome is this, that you can […]