Vienna (OTS) –Founded on March 12, 1365 as the medical faculty of the University of Vienna, the MedUni Vienna was already a widely recognized authority in health matters in the Middle Ages. Since its spin-off from Alma Mater Rudolphina in 2004, MedUni Vienna has developed not only into one of the largest medical universities in Europe, but also into one of the world’s most renowned institutions for cutting-edge research. Since then, around 16,000 graduates of human and dental medicine and researchers with a total of more than 73,000 scientific publications have helped write MedUni Vienna’s success story. In the anniversary year 2024, the Medical University of Vienna Day on March 12th will mark the start of the celebrations.
International rankings reflect the success story: MedUni Vienna is consistently ranked among the 100 best medical schools worldwide in university rankings. The University Hospital AKH Vienna and its university clinics run jointly with the MedUni Vienna reached 25th place in the current ranking of the best hospitals in the world evaluated by the US news magazine Newsweek. MedUni Vienna doctors treat more than 60,000 inpatients here every year carry out around 45,000 operations annually. In addition, the outpatient clinics and special outpatient clinics of MedUni Vienna and Vienna General Hospital are visited around 1.1 million times per year.
“Our high international reputation, which we have achieved again after many decades, is a testament to the excellent performance of our employees over the past two decades,” emphasizes Markus Müller, Rector of the Medical University of Vienna since 2015. “The three cornerstones of our mission, research, teaching and patient care contribute equally to the quality of our university. This ensures that MedUni Vienna will continue to successfully fulfill its social mission of creating, imparting and applying medical knowledge in the future. In our anniversary year, I would especially like to thank my predecessor, the ‘founding rector’ Wolfgang Schütz, for his prudent decision-making in the first years of MedUni Vienna’s independence. My express thanks go to our more than 6,300 employees for their impressive, daily commitment to the service of academic medicine and for the benefit of the patients entrusted to us.”
In any case, the course for future success has been set at MedUni Vienna: with several major construction projects, MedUni Vienna is currently building over 90,000 square meters of new infrastructure for the medicine of the future. This creates a modern framework for digital and personalized medicine. Whether at the Eric Kandel Institute – Center for Precision Medicine, at the MedUni Campus Mariannengasse, at the Center for Translational Medicine, the Center for Technology Transfer, the expanded Anna Spiegel research building or the Ignaz Semmelweis Institute: Diagnostic and therapeutic methods as well as preventive measures will be developed here in the future adapted to individual factors. In the future, this should make it possible to treat patients in an even more targeted and individual manner and to identify the cause of diseases at the molecular level.
On the occasion of the anniversary, we are not only looking forward, but also at a dark chapter of the past: March 12th marks the anniversary of the university’s founding, as well as the so-called “annexation” of Austria to Germany in 1938 with its devastating consequences for medicine . A memorial ceremony in front of the “Memorial against Forgetting” on the grounds of the MedUni Vienna is also a fixed item on the program this year for the Day of the Medical University of Vienna. Those interested can find out details about the beginnings of MedUni Vienna as an autonomous institution at the “Life Paths” event: Wolfgang Schütz, first rector of the independent MedUni Vienna until 2015, talks about his own professional career and the university’s career.
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