Basic Course D/2026

Basic Courses of Tirol Kliniken GmbH at UMIT Tirol/Hall

In recent years, alpine and high altitude medicine has undergone sustainable development. It is no longer just a few individuals who venture to the world’s highest mountains; due to the growing market for trekking offers, several hundred thousand people now visit mountain regions outside the Alps every year. In addition, European mountain tourism accounts for an estimated 5–10 million hikers and 500,000 climbers annually. It is therefore understandable that a new branch of medicine has inevitably developed over the last few decades.
The introduction of the ÖÄK Diploma for Alpine and High Altitude Medicine in 2015 represents a meaningful expansion of the services offered to physicians who wish to intensively engage with all aspects of alpine and high altitude medicine. Through the generated clinical-interdisciplinary expertise and practical implementation with the alpine sports courses offered in the ÖÄK Diploma, physicians’ medical consulting competence is to be improved and their high-altitude medical diagnostic-therapeutic skills trained so that these can be applied in everyday clinical practice.

The four basic courses of the ÖÄK Diploma A–D are conducted under the academic oversight of the Austrian Society for Mountain and High Altitude Medicine (ÖGAHM). The scientific director of the basic courses and the person responsible for the Diploma at the Austrian Medical Chamber is Prim. Univ.-Doz. Dr. Wolfgang Schobersberger, Institute for Sports, Alpine Medicine & Health Tourism (ISAG).

All basic courses are accredited by the Austrian Medical Chamber with continuing education credits for general medicine and sports medicine. Further information on the Diploma and the courses can be found at: ÖÄK Diploma in Alpine and High Altitude Medicine