Hand &Foot Surgery (Microsurgery) Yin Gang
From December 2016 to March 2017, I participated in the three-month clinical training program in Vienna, Austria. The medical system and beautiful surrounding in Austria left me a deep impression.
Vienna is also a paradise for musicians; it is the hometown of Mozart, Beethoven, Strauss and some other music masters.
We live in AKH apartment, from which we can see the world’s first psychiatric hospital, founded by the father of psychiatry, Sigmund Freud.
My training hospital is Donauspital, the second largest one and the eastern medical center in Vienna. Orthopaedics is one of its best departments. It has 34 beds, 14 doctors and conduct nearly 2000 operations annually. It is good at shoulder, hip, knee joint replacement surgeries and therapy of extreme deformity. The medical equipment is advanced; the logistics system is highly automatic, which ensures the efficient operation of the hospital and greatly reduces the human cost.
Austria has a well-developed medical insurance system, and each legal resident has health insurance. The general health examination of ailment is resolved in the clinic; therefore the hospital only accepts patients referred by the GP or emergency. Mature grading diagnosis and treatment not only solves the problem of medical treatment but also enhances service efficency.
We visited the clean and tidy nursing home in Vienna, where both the sick and the old are well treated. They can arrange their bedrooms according to their wishes.
The doctor-patient relationship in Vienna is very harmonious; the medical staff and patients respect each other. Medical staff take good care of patients’ privacy and try the best to achieve the best results.
Undergraduate Austrian medical education lasts 6 years including 4 years of basic medical education and 2 years of clinical training. After graduation, they have to pass the national physician qualification examination, then have a 2-3- year GP training and a 4-8-year specialist training before they become specialists. GP training mainly involves surgeryand patient management while specialist training requires the independent completion of various operations.
