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Pregraduate education

The implimentation of the new curriculum for 150 students at the university of Vienna went very well. The evaluation of the impact of General practice (lectures, seminars and practice-visit) was very good. So in October 2002 the new curriculum will be offered to all students (estmated for about 1200 in Vienna, and 500 in Graz and Innsbruck).

There are big changes at the University and the medical faculty became independant from the whole university (on economic and personal basis).

The election process for the Professor of general practice at the Departement of Pre-and Postgraduate Education at the University of Vienna is still going on. Prof. Maier is still the head of the Institute and there is a big group of G.Ps from Vienna and Lower and Upper Austria (20-25 GPs), who are sharing the teaching. The payment of the University is very little or nothing, but everybody has his or her office as regular income. A training to improve the teaching has started.

Prof. Chris van Well comes to Vienna on Monday 23^rd of Sept to discuss at the University in Vienna the document of WONCA of the European Definition of G.P/F.M.

Postgraduate education

The Ministry of Health offeres salary -payment for the trainees in G.P.teaching practices also at the beginning of VT again and so many trainees take this chance. There are much more applicants for the G.P.training practices but the budget has not been increased for many years.

The quality of the hospital training is discussed and there are evaluation programs like f.i. "visitation of the training place" developed.

Due to the good working final exam of VT the trainees participate in a voluntary theoretical seminar-program about General Practice locally organized by the Austrian Society of G.P. and the Doctors Chamber.

CME

Drug-prescription is a big topic now and there are quality cercles established for economic prescribing.

As the Winter Conference was a big success there will be the 2^nd Winter Conference of General Practice organised by the Austrian Society of GP from the 18 th to the 25 th of January 2003 in Lech am Arlberg.