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- Duration of studies
- Trainee selection process
- Specialty curriculum authority
- Licensing authority
- Areas of specialization
- Legal references
Duration of studies
The postgraduate training periods are:
- 3 years for General Practitioners
- 6 years for Specialists
Compulsory postgraduate education is called “Pflichtassistenz” or “Turnus.” It takes three years, and ends with the “Ius Practicandi,” the right to practice general medicine. After the Ius Practicandi, physicians may train for a clinical specialty.
Trainee selection process
The decision regarding access to postgraduate studies is made by hospitals directly. It is very difficult to get a slot for the Turnus. At the time of this writing, there were many physicians waiting for a slot; some wait six or more years.
Specialty curriculum authority
The Austrian Medical Association
The Federal Ministry of Science and Transport has supervisory authority.
Licensing authority
Areas of specialization
- General Practitioner
- Specialist:
- Anästhesiologie und Intensivmedizin
- Anatomie
- Arbeits- und Betriebsmedizin
- Augenheilkunde und Optometric
- Blutgruppenserologie und Transfusionsmedizin
- Chirurgie
- Frauenheilkunde
- Gerichtsmedizin
- Hals- Nasen- und Ohrenkrankheiten
- Haut- und Geschlechtskrankheiten
- Histologie und Embryologie
- Hygiene und Mikrobiologie
- Inmunologie
- Innere Medizin
- Kinderchirurgie
- Kinder- und Jugendheilkunde
- Lungenkrankheiten
- Medizinische Biologie
- Medizinische Biophisic
- Medizinische Leistungsphysiologic
- Medizinische Radiologie-Diagnostik
- Medizinische und Chemische Labordiagnostic
- Mund- Kiefer- und Gesichtschirurgie
- Neurobiologie
- Neurochirurgie
- Neurologie
- Neuropathologie
- Nuklearmedizin
- Orthopädie und Orthopädische Chirurgie
- Pathologie
- Pathophysiologie
- Pharmakologie und Toxikologie
- Physikalische Medizine
- Physiologie
- Plastische Chirurgie
- Psychiatrie
- Sozialmedizin
- Spezifische Prophylaxe und Tropenhygiene
- Strahlentherapie-Radiooncologie
- Tumorbiologie
- Unfallchirurgie
- Urologie
- Virologic
- Zahn- Mund- und Kieferheilkunde
Legal references
Bundesgesetz EWR-Dienstrechtsanpassungsgesetz, Bundesgesetzblatt für die Republik Österreich, Nr 389/1994.
Kundmachung des Bundesministers für wirstchaftliche Angelenheiten vom 11.September 1989.