<P> In 2016, there were 6,093 applicants for 660 places in medicine proper and 80 in dentistry, which corresponds to an admission rate of about 12.14% . Admission is based upon ranking in an admission test called "MedAT", which is carried out every summer in conjunction with the three other public medical schools of Austria: the Medical University of Graz, the Medical University of Innsbruck and the Medical Faculty at the Johannes Kepler University Linz . </P> <P> As the founding member of the Alma mater Rudolfina (University of Vienna) founded in 1365, the medical faculty was already widely renowned in medieval times as an authority in medicine . Faculty records from as far back as 1399 document its mediation in disputes between barber surgeons, midwives, and local landowners . During the reign of Maria Theresia, Viennese medicine first attained international significance . The Habsburg Monarch summoned the Dutch physician, Gerard van Swieten, to Vienna . He in turn laid the foundation for the Vienna Medical School and paved the way for other leading figures . Anton de Haen, Maximilian Stoll, Lorenz Gasser, Anton von Störck, and the discoverer of the percussion technique, Leopold Auenbrugger, all taught and conducted research in the imperial city . Based on longstanding traditions, what now is referred to as "bedside teaching" also became the paradigmatic educational method during this period . </P> <P> When the Vienna General Hospital opened in 1784, physicians acquired a new facility that gradually developed into the most important research center . During the 19th century, the "Second Viennese Medical School" emerged with the contributions of physicians such as Karl Rokitansky, Josef Skoda, Ferdinand von Hebra and Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis . Basic medical science expanded and specialization advanced . Furthermore, the first dermatology, eye, as well as otolaryngology clinics in the world were founded in Vienna . </P> <P> At the beginning of the 20th century, Viennese Medicine belonged to the first class internationally . Clemens von Pirquet defined the concepts of "allergy" and "serum sickness," Ernst Peter Pick conducted significant experiments on the chemical specificity of immunological reactions, and the Vienna School of Dentistry (founded by Bernhard Gotlieb) reached its zenith in the 1920s . All four Nobel Prizes, which were granted to (former) Viennese physicians during the next decades Robert Bárány (1914), Julius Wagner - Jauregg (1927), Karl Landsteiner (1930), and Otto Loewi (1936)), were the result of work undertaken at this time . The excellent tradition and research extended well into the First Austrian Republic . Under the auspices of the Medical Association of Vienna, which was founded in Vienna, well - received postgraduate courses for doctors worldwide were organized into the 1930s . </P>

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