Friday was another early morning as
we journeyed to Weiner Neustadt for a day of radiology education. While there
was some disappointment at the news that the Lecture from Dr. Recheis on
Radiological Anthropology would have to be cancelled due to business, the
lectures on the radiological health system in Vienna, the radiologic technology
program at the University of Applied Sciences, and ion beam therapy were
interesting nonetheless. This was the first university to offer a bachelor
program in radiologic technology in Austria, which is a regulated health
profession there. We found out it is common for students in this field in
Austria to do their course work domestically and then go abroad for post
graduate training and maybe more interestingly for some of our students that
German proficiency need not be demonstrated to attend a school such as the one
we visited. Afterward we trained back to Vienna and were given a bit of time to
explore the remarkable city for a few hours. A group of us made our way to the Hundertwasser
house for the afternoon which is a building with an epically artistic design.
Unexpectedly, there were actually tenants in a place that seemed almost too creative
for mundane life. I assuage my worries by imagining that only true artists are
allowed to fill vacancies. That evening we stopped for dinner at a place that I
still do not know the name of, but for now will think of as Austrian heaven. Most
of us indulged ourselves in meat packed plates, with glorious sides and tantalizing
sauces. To top it all off we devoured three dessert sampler plates that were to
die for, and I’m pretty sure we almost did. There was just something magnificent
about ending the day stuffing ourselves with a disgusting amount of wonderful
food.
Our
last day in Vienna began with a lecture about my favorite subject of our time
there, Sigmund Freud, and it was given in his house to boot. I still have a lot
of questions about the id, ego, and superego that Freud describes in one of his
books that I may need to read soon, but it was all very intriguing. This was
followed by a tour of the museum that was once his home, and a description of
his life as a whole. After a quick lunch, the group took off for the museum of
natural history which housed a most impressive collection and an equally as extraordinary
building. From the animatronic dinosaur to the parasites that could be viewed
through microscopes, to the hundreds of species of animals displayed the museum
was a lot more exciting than I could have expected. Disappointingly my camera
ran out of battery trying to capture many of them, but a few are pictured here.
We stayed in house to grab some coffee and hot chocolate (more like melted
chocolate) and enjoyed our last moments in the beautiful city that is Vienna. By
11: 30 I was back home, er, in my host home catching up on all the sleep I
missed.
we journeyed to Weiner Neustadt for a day of radiology education. While there
was some disappointment at the news that the Lecture from Dr. Recheis on
Radiological Anthropology would have to be cancelled due to business, the
lectures on the radiological health system in Vienna, the radiologic technology
program at the University of Applied Sciences, and ion beam therapy were
interesting nonetheless. This was the first university to offer a bachelor
program in radiologic technology in Austria, which is a regulated health
profession there. We found out it is common for students in this field in
Austria to do their course work domestically and then go abroad for post
graduate training and maybe more interestingly for some of our students that
German proficiency need not be demonstrated to attend a school such as the one
we visited. Afterward we trained back to Vienna and were given a bit of time to
explore the remarkable city for a few hours. A group of us made our way to the Hundertwasser
house for the afternoon which is a building with an epically artistic design.
Unexpectedly, there were actually tenants in a place that seemed almost too creative
for mundane life. I assuage my worries by imagining that only true artists are
allowed to fill vacancies. That evening we stopped for dinner at a place that I
still do not know the name of, but for now will think of as Austrian heaven. Most
of us indulged ourselves in meat packed plates, with glorious sides and tantalizing
sauces. To top it all off we devoured three dessert sampler plates that were to
die for, and I’m pretty sure we almost did. There was just something magnificent
about ending the day stuffing ourselves with a disgusting amount of wonderful
food.
Our
last day in Vienna began with a lecture about my favorite subject of our time
there, Sigmund Freud, and it was given in his house to boot. I still have a lot
of questions about the id, ego, and superego that Freud describes in one of his
books that I may need to read soon, but it was all very intriguing. This was
followed by a tour of the museum that was once his home, and a description of
his life as a whole. After a quick lunch, the group took off for the museum of
natural history which housed a most impressive collection and an equally as extraordinary
building. From the animatronic dinosaur to the parasites that could be viewed
through microscopes, to the hundreds of species of animals displayed the museum
was a lot more exciting than I could have expected. Disappointingly my camera
ran out of battery trying to capture many of them, but a few are pictured here.
We stayed in house to grab some coffee and hot chocolate (more like melted
chocolate) and enjoyed our last moments in the beautiful city that is Vienna. By
11: 30 I was back home, er, in my host home catching up on all the sleep I
missed.
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