Ternopil state medical university has close relations with another European university – the Medical University of Vienna. 25 our teachers improved their teaching and medical skills here. The Rector L. Ya. Kovalchuk and Ukrainian governmental delegation together with two vice ministers of Health care of Ukraine took part in the negotiations with the rector of Medical University of Vienna professor Wolfgang Schütz. They discussed the establishment of the university clinics in Ukraine. Doctor Wolfgang Schütz shared with the clinic management experience of the Medical University of Vienna, which, by the way, is the largest one in Europe. He told about its structure, submission principles of worker which belong different categories and the sources of its funding. The Ukrainian delegation remained satisfied with the results of the meeting. An obtained information during the negotiations will be used for the creation of the statute about the university clinics in Ukraine.

During negotiations between rector of the Medical University of Vienna and the Ukrainian governmental delegation.

Participants of the negotiations (look from left to right): rector of the Medical University of Vienna Wolfgang Schütz, the first vice minister of Health care of Ukraine Vasyl Lazorishenec, professor of the Medical University of Vienna Harold Toyfelsbauer, vice minister of Health care of Ukraine Victor Ribchuk, the dean of Ternopil state medical university Mykhajlo Korda, the rector of Ternopil state medical university Leonid Kovalchuk.

Rector of the Medical University of Vienna Wolfgang Schütz and rector of Ternopil medical university Leonid Kovalchuk.