Team leader: Ulrike Spary-Kainz
Focus: The primary aim of this area of work is to establish high-quality teaching in the field of general practice. This should lead to a strengthening of general practice and an improvement in the quality and effectiveness of medical care. To this end, we also work particularly closely and in an advisory capacity with the other two departments as part of our practical expertise in the GP setting in order to initiate well-founded research projects for the primary care sector.
Networking: Our team works closely within the Institute with the Health Services Research team and the Evidence-based Medicine team, as well as with the Institute of Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation across the Institute. Networking with other universities is particularly important in the context of teaching research. There is a lively exchange with all public and some private Austrian medical universities and the J.W. Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany. There is also a research network with general practitioners and close cooperation with specialists both at the University Hospital and in external healthcare facilities.
