Our department guarantees innovative and practice-oriented education. We teach according to the biopsychosocial model, which focuses on all aspects of the human being, whose problems arise within a specific environment.
The Department teaches courses whose learning content is related to neuroimmunological, cerebrovascular, neuromuscular and neurooncological diseases as well as all content concerning neurodegeneration and dementia, movement disorders including Parkinson's disease, pain syndromes and degenerative and radicular syndromes related to spinal disorders.
Research-led teaching is a special concern since we want to teach students how much research can advance the understanding of neurological diseases and thus improve treatment. By helping them to acquire their first skills in scientific work, we want to fill our junior researchers with enthusiasm for the fascinating discipline of neurology and the neurosciences. We offer diploma theses in multiple sclerosis and other neuroimmunological diseases, stroke (with a focus on illness in younger age groups, acute management and cerebral small vessel disease) and neuroplasticity. Diploma students are integrated into our interdisciplinary research teams on an equal footing. We aim to increase their knowledge through original research papers and accompany students until their publication appears in a scientific journal in the neurosciences. Unsolicited diploma thesis applications to the division's management are welcome.
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.
