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Medical Graduates Per 100,000 Population (2017): 14.4
Nursing Graduates Per 100,000 Population (2017): 34.5
Percent Share of Foreign-Trained Doctors (2017): 5.8%
Percent Share of Foreign-Trained Nurses (2017): NA
(Note: According to OECD, “Medical graduates are defined as students who have graduated from medical schools in a given year.” OECD also notes that data for Austria “include foreign graduates, but other countries may exclude them.”)
Source: OECD (2019), Health at a Glance 2019: OECD Indicators, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/4dd50c09-en.
https://www.oecd.org/health/health-systems/health-at-a-glance-19991312.htm
“Studying is free of charge for Austrian and EU/EEA students at public medical schools. If a student exceeds the study period as it is defined in the respective curricula documents by more than two semesters, he or she will, however, have to pay tuition fees of € 363.36 for each additional semester. Tuition fees for non-EU/EEA students are currently set at € 726.72 per semester [20]. In Salzburg and Krems, students have to pay € 6750 and € 7000 per semester, respectively [10, 24].”
Source: Scharer, S., Freitag, A. Physicians’ exodus: why medical graduates leave Austria or do not work in clinical practice. Wien Klin Wochenschr127, 323–329 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00508-015-0786-7
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00508-015-0786-7
“Undergraduate medical education is offered as a 6-year course by three public medical schools (Vienna, Graz and Innsbruck) and as a 5-year course by the private Paracelsus Medical University in Salzburg [8, 9]. Since October 2014, another two universities have been offering medical degrees; the newly established private Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences in Krems offers a Bologna-compliant medical degree, consisting of a 3-year Bachelor of Health Sciences, followed by a 3-year Master of Human Medicine [10]; and the newly established Faculty of Medicine at the public Johannes Kepler University in Linz offers a 3-year Bachelor of Medicine followed by a 3-year Master of Medicine [11]. Students have to engage in extensive clinical practice in their final year at all universities. Upon completion of their studies, students are awarded a Doctor medicinae universae (Dr. med.univ.) degree by their respective university. A total of 1356 places (excluding dentistry) were available at the three public medical schools for 2014/2015. A further 60 places were available at the public medical faculty in Linz, but students are taught at facilities in Graz during their first 2 years of study [12–15]. Capacities of private universities are smaller, with 50 places each available in Salzburg and Krems [9, 10].”
Source: Scharer, S., Freitag, A. Physicians’ exodus: why medical graduates leave Austria or do not work in clinical practice. Wien Klin Wochenschr127, 323–329 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00508-015-0786-7
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00508-015-0786-7
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