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 […]

by Heather Phillips. I am a nurse from California, United States. I grew up in Los Angeles and went to nursing school in San Diego. I always knew that I wanted to live and work abroad for a period of my young adulthood. I chose to work in the UK […]

von Simon Christoph Kraler. Selten durfte ich in einem Land in so viele verschiedene Welten eintauchen: Das Surren des von der Decke hängenden Ventilators, während ich sitzend auf einem der rostigen Schemel die Naht zu Ende führe. Klingende Autoboxen, die ein Song von Drake zum Dröhnen bringt. Musik, die der […]

by Jakob Riedl. In summer 2015 a good friend of mine and I decided to do a clinical elective abroad. After reading plenty of elective reports we chose the Karapitiya Hospital in Galle, Sri Lanka, for our internship. There were a few reasons for our choice. First of all, English […]