The JKU Faculty of Medicine's 10th Anniversary
The Linz MED Campus will open its doors to the general public on September 24, 2024! Visit open labs, see live surgeries, enjoy stage & children's programs, stop by the food trucks, and much more. Discover pioneering advances and accomplishments in medical research in Linz! Join us in celebrating 10 years of the JKU Faculty of Medicine and spend a fun-filled afternoon at the MED Campus.
Open MED Campus
Program highlights between 1:00 PM - 7:00 PM include:
- Virtual anatomy at the JKU medSPACE
- Live, 3D heart & brain surgeries at the JKU medSPACE
- Open House at the laboratory buildings
- A University Medicine exhibition
- The JKU Circus of Knowledge will make a guest appearance at the MED Campus
- Interactive, hands-on workshops for children for young and old alike
- Food trucks – Culinary delights at the MED Campus
The Linz MED Campus is a hub at the crossroads of health and science as well as a nerve center to not only provide Upper Austrians with high-quality medical care and educate the physicians, but to also share the latest findings in medical research. We look forward to seeing you there!
Open MED Campus
WHEN
September 24, 2024
1.00 PM - 7.00 PM
WHERE
JKU MED Campus
Krankenhausstraße 5
4020 Linz
Schedule of Events
Time | Program Point | Location |
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1.00 PM - 6.00 PM | "Medical Research Open House". Peek over the shoulders of researchers: Interactive, hands-on stations for young and old alike. | Bldg.1. and 2nd Floor |
1.00 PM - 6.00 PM | "University Medicine Highlights". Be it virtual reality goggles, 3D printers, or surgical robots, medical professionals at the Kepler University Hospital talk about - and demonstrate - how technology is improving university medicine. | Teaching Bldg., 1st Floor |
Photo slideshow celebrating the Faculty of Medicine's 10th anniversary | Teaching Bldg. Aula | |
1.00 PM - 7.00 PM | “Roko's Red Cross Mobile": Join the Red Cross' mascot, Roko, and learn about first aid in a fun, playful way. For little heroes age 4+
| Campus "Piazza" Square |
1.00 PM - 7.00 PM | Streetfood: Culinary delights from around the world | Campus "Piazza" Square |
2.00 PM - 2.40 PM | Premiere: “2 Universities - 1 Virtual Lecture Hall”. The debut of a 3-D, interactive virtual anatomy lecture broadcast from the anatomy room at the Medical University of Graz. | JKU medSPACE in the Lab Bldg. |
3.00 PM - 5.30 PM | “A Clear View of the Heart and Brain”. Virtual anatomy: 3D images of the heart and brain from patients undergoing surgery. Followed by live, 3D heart and brain surgeries. | JKU medSPACE in the Lab Bldg. |
3.30 PM - | “Knitted Anatomy”. A guest appearance by the JKU Circus of Knowledge at the JKU MED Campus featuring an anatomical dramatization: What are we made of? The thread winding its way across the jungle landscape that are our “woolly” organs was lovingly and anatomically correctly knitted by physician and anthropologist Katharina Sabernig. As a puppet theater performer, Rebekah Wild brings these anatomical works of art to life, taking the thymus to school with a white blood cell, meeting the Queen of Hearts, surfing in the bloodstream, and encountering our immune cell heroes as they use ingenious tricks to ward off nasty invaders! For ages 6+ | Library |
6.00 PM - 7.00 PM | "Anatomy for Everyone". A fascinating 3D journey into the human body. | JKU medSPACE in the Lab Bldg. |
Recent Research Subjects at the University Medical Center Linz
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Presentations for Tenure-Track Positions “Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine”
The publicly accessible presentations will take place at the MED Campus on September 27.
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Austrian Minister of Education Visits the JKU Faculty of Medicine
Martin Polaschek, Minister of Education, Science & Research, visited the JKU Faculty of Medicine.
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Presentations for Tenure-track Positions: “Pathomechanisms and Innovative Treamtment Options in Cardiac Surgery”
The publicly accessible job talks will take place at the JKU MED Campus on September 18.
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Austrian Health Minister Visits the JKU Faculty of Medicine
Austrian Minister Johannes Rauch visited the JKU Faculty of Medicine at the end of August.
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University Medicine - a Special Mission and Responsibility
We are committed to not only providing state-of-the-art surgical and medical examination techniques, but also applying and further developing state-of-the-art treatment. In addition to the primary and standard care available to patients at hospitals throughout Upper Austria, the Kepler University Hospital is also able to offer the highest level of care across 50 medical and specialist departments as well as at a wide range of competence centers.
Researchers are in direct contact with patients and incorporate their clinical expertise into their research, making it possible to to continuously further improve medical treatments that in turn benefits patients.University Medicine distinguishes a university hospital from conventional hospitals. There are many procedures and treatments, such as aortic arch replacement and vascular neurosurgery, performed solely at university hospitals.
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Would you like to learn more about our clinical research projects?
The Johannes Kepler University's research documentation program (Fodok) contains detailed information about the impressive research conducted at the university.
Working in University Medicine
The JKU Faculty of Medicine has innovative research funding programs and funded research leave designed to support scholarly research, enabling physicians who are interested in research to pursue a career that combines clinical care and academia..
In day-to-day clinical practice, professors and their teams conduct collaborative and cross-disciplinary research to ensure that patients benefit directly from the latest advances in medicine.
Each day, researchers at a university hospital face complex cases and clinical images requiring a high level of scientific expertise. Learn more about research, education, and how the JKU Faculty of Medicine came to be.
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GP and University Professor
Medical studies in Linz focus strongly on general medicine. There are over 50 physicians with their own practices in private practice throughout Upper Austria are also involved in education at the Faculty of Medicine.
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Studying Medicine in Linz
Austria's first medical degree program offered as part of Bachelor's/Master's system is educating a new generation of physicians in Linz. The modules are organ-centered and topic-centered at the crossroads of medical practices and clinical research. Your advantages include:
- Austria's second largest university hospital will be your home. You will practice at the Kepler University Hospital (KUK), opens an external URL in a new window in Linz, consisting of Med Campus III, Med Campus IV, and the Neuromed Campus.
- The Johnannes Kepler University Linz has 4 faculties. This means that if you want, your medical studies in Linz are interdisciplinary! Medical technology, healthcare economics, medical ethics, or medical law - supplement your studies with exciting subjects offered at the Linz Institute of Technology (LIT), for example, or at the Faculty of Law, or at the JKU Business School.
- Textbooks are all well and good - but you can study virtual anatomy and pathology in ways you never dreamed possible! You can experience the human body in 3D at the JKU medSPACE during some of your classes!
Med Students Tell Their Stories
Have you ever experienced how an arrested heart suddenly starts beating again? Is pathology really the toughest exam? JKU med students talk about their most memorable experiences while studying medicine in Linz and their calling to medicine.
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