The Department of Urology provides an academic education to medical doctors as part of the newly created required module XIII (Grundlagen der Chirurgie I/Basics of Surgery I), which includes all fundamental subspecialties. Additional interdisciplinary lectures are held in the dentistry degree program and in collaboration with the Department of Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology.
Required module XIII creates ideal conditions for academic interdisciplinarity, as can be seen from the close networking with all other subspecialties in this module. Besides holding urology lectures for physicians and dentists (medicine and dentistry, doctoral school), the department also supervises students of other disciplines (school for health care and nursing) on these topics. A clinically oriented urology emphasis for students is offered as part of the objective structured clinical exam (OSCE) in cooperation with the Clinical Skill Center (CSC) and professional development of students from Austria and abroad. Finally, our department has a tradition of offering diverse postgraduate professional development programs in urology.
The wide range of professional development opportunities at the Medical University of Graz is directed at a variety of occupational groups in the fields of medicine, science and research, nursing and health services. Most of the professional development courses can be completed while the participant is regularly employed and provide him/her with a valuable additional qualification.
Rotations at University Hospital Graz by students enrolled at an university in Austria are organized in coordination with the head of the department.
Rotations at University Hospital Graz by international students (home university abroad) are only possible as part of a mobility program (e.g., Erasmus+). All requests must go through the Med Uni Graz International Office. At peripheral KAGes hospitals, rotations can be organized directly by students. If a Med Uni Graz confirmation is required, students must fulfill the requirements of the mobility program and register in the Med Uni Graz International Office before the stay starts.
