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Austria Report

Nature of OMFS
 
Dual degree OMFS mandated
 

Advice for OMFS from Europe

 

Advice for OMFS from Europe wishing to work in Austria
Timing of second degree (if any) Dentistry before or during specialty training
 
Length of specialty training
 
4 yrs
 
Number of OMFS specialists
 

OMFS surgeons (total) : 262 (58 female, 204 male)

OMFS working in hospitals: 100 (29 female, 71 male) OMFS in (private) practice: 162 (29 female, 133 male)

 

Number of OMFS trainees
 
42 (12 female, 30 male)
These are in addition to the 262 surgeons)
Number of OMFS training rotations
 
-
 
Major (Hub) units
 

11
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National Specialty Assoc
 
Oesterreichische Gesellschaft fuer Mund-, Kiefer- und Gesichtschirurgie
 
Contact for specialty association
 

office @ oegmkg.at

Prim. PD. Dr. Dr. Christina Eder-Czembirek, MSc, MBA

Institut für Mund-, Kiefer-, Gesichtschirurgie und Zahnheilkunde
Klinik Hietzing
Wolkersbergenstraße 1
1130 Wien
Tel.: +43 1 801 10 3201
christina.eder-czembirek @ gesundheitsverbund.at

President
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Dr. Werner Millesi

Sandgasse 24, 1190 Vienna
werner @ millesi.at
 

Medical Assoc (confirming status)
 
Austrian Medical Association / Oesterreichische Aerztekammer
 
Section representative
 
Prim. DDr. Michael Oeckher
 
Board representative
 
DDr. Cornelia Czembirek
 
Oral Surgery
 
Specialty training not implemented yet
 
Number of oral surgeons
 
In hospital practice: 0
In office practice: 0
 
Oral surgery training duration
 
no Oral Surgery training established but planned – boards for implementation stopped at the moment
 

Update on national scene
 


 
Changes since last year
 
Established Austrian aesthetic law allowing full scope of aesthetic procedures for plastic surgeon only has been revised. Performing aesthetic rhinoplasties, blepharoplasties is again allowed for Oral-Maxillo-Facial Surgeons having started their training after 2015. There is still one exception – otoplasties.
 

Opportunities
 

 

Threats

Upcoming specialty training in Oral Surgery for dentists. Goal to regiment this title automatically for OMFS and implementing a mandatory training time for dentists at a clinic for OMFS

ENT, Plastic Surgery

 

CME Requirements
 
Mandated 250 hr per 5 year cycle medical regulator
Mandated individual appraisal of practice
5 yearly review of above to be re-licenced

Requirements by dental regular overlaps
120 per 3 years