MedUni Vienna and FH Campus Wien sign cooperation agreement

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Bild: FH Campus Wien/Ludwig Schedl
Bild: FH Campus Wien/Ludwig Schedl

The two largest institutions in Austria offering studies in the fields of medicine, health and nursing confirm their renewed partnership in the areas of teaching and research. The focus is on the exchange of experience, the joint use of resources and the initiation of funded doctoral programs.

The FH Campus Wien and the Medical University of Vienna have been cooperating since 2013 in order to pool strengths and potential. This successful collaboration has now been renewed in a cooperation agreement. A particular focus is the expansion of interdisciplinary, interprofessional simulation training. Here, movement sequences are optimized in practical learning settings that can realistically represent clinical conditions and enable a wide range of interventions to be carried out. Realistic medical situations are also practiced with trained actors* as patients. There are also plans to promote scientific cooperation in teaching and research and to encourage exchanges between students and scientists. Concrete measures will include the mutual awarding of teaching assignments and guest lectures and the joint supervision of students’ scientific work. In future, both universities will exchange information on their research projects, for example in the areas of prevention and therapy (PHC) or with regard to the Austrian eHealth strategy. Functional rooms and large-scale equipment will also be made mutually accessible for R&D purposes.

"FH Campus Wien and the Medical University of Vienna both contribute to the expansion and improvement of healthcare in Austria. Our aim is therefore to ensure that all regulated academic healthcare professions, the prospective doctors at the Medical University of Vienna and our students from the Departments of Health Sciences and Applied Nursing Science can also complete training courses together in future. This joint training content should optimally prepare them for the important interaction in professional life," says Heimo Sandtner, Academic Director and Rector of FH Campus Wien.

"The collaboration between FH Campus Wien and the Medical University of Vienna not only strengthens the training of future healthcare professionals, but is also an important step in the further development of interprofessional teaching and research. Together, we are creating innovative learning environments and facilitating the exchange of knowledge and resources to better meet the challenges of modern healthcare. Our renewed partnership is clear proof of how synergetic cooperation can raise the quality of teaching and research to a new level," emphasizes Markus Müller, Rector of the Medical University of Vienna.