Monthly Archives: February 2015
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Students enrolled in the medical degree programme who are stationed at Førde hospital, will receive interdisciplinary training as part of the practical teaching plan for 3rd internal medicine semester. The students are thrilled about having tasks with a great degree of responsibility involved and receiving feedback on their performance, as well as having the opportunity to work and learn interdisciplinary with nursing students. Skills obtained through interdisciplinary cooperation with other groups of health workers are already included in the learning outcomes that our students should achieve, but the training is not very well organized. Of course it is also unreasonable that similar learning programs are not offered students stationed at Haugesund or Stavanger hospitals. Professor Anders Bærheim at Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care has now taken the initiative of establishing Interdisciplinary Training as a mandatory part of the work placement in internal medicine and surgical disciplines. The project will be developed in collaboration with the UiB coordinators for teaching at Haugesund and Stavanger hospitals, as well as the University Colleges of Stord/Haugesund and Stavanger, both of which offer nursing degrees, all based on the Førde model. The project will also be an important contribution in order for K2 to achieve its strategic goal of strengthening the regional teaching Collaboration.
CCBIO’s 3rd symposium (2015)
CCBIO will arrange its third annual symposium at Solstrand on May 19-20, 2015. For more information click here.
The Care Technology Conference 2015 «Care Technology in Action!»
The conference will take place at Bergen University College on 19.05.2015. For more information (in Norwegian) click here.
MIC – 11th confocal course
The course is aimed at those of you who want to learn how to use a confocal microscope and will help you get started in the field of confocal imaging either you use the equipment at MIC or at your local institution. The course will take place on April 14-17, 2015, at MIC at Department of Biomedicine. For more information click here.
Oslo Cancer Cluster – R&D Network Meeting on Cancer and Nutrition
The Network Meeting will take place on 18.03.2015 at 14-17 in Oslo. Topic: “Role of nutrition in cancer – prevention, treatment and rehabilitation”. For more information click here.
The 13th International Symposium on Sjögren’s Syndrome
The event will take place on May 19-22, 2015, in Bergen. For more information click here.
Verify publications in CRIStin
This is a reminder to all scientific employees that they verify that publications from 2014 are registered in CRIStin. The institute’s deadline for registering publications is 27.02.2015. The scientific employee is responsible for adding publications that are missing, but the administration may assist if you encounter any problems (send an e-mail to Kristian Jensen) Click here for information on how to add publications (in Norwegian)
Supervisor seminar 25.03.2015
The faculty is inviting to a supervisor seminar on March 25. The event will take place at Scandic Hotell Bergen City at 09:00 – 15:45. The course will be led by Roland Jonsson and Per Bakke. Binding registration is done my sending an e-mail to Mirza.mujic@mofa.uib.no by March 1. Click here for poster about the event (in Norwegian). Click here for program (in Norwegian).
The strategy seminar
Next week K2’s research group leaders and the heads of the teaching sections will meet for a strategy seminar. A main topic will be the organization of the institute. Quite a lot works well at the 2-year old K2, and I want to highlight the administrative services as a good example. Less successful is the dividing of the organizational structure into teaching sections and research groups. We wish to discuss the organizational structure as a whole with the aim of achieving a more operational and efficient institute structure which involves the research group leaders to a larger extent than before.
Another main issue is collaboration with other institutions. I wish for a tighter and more dynamic collaboration with the hospital sections attached to K2. This collaboration is currently probably working best at the smaller and professionalized departments such as the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, The Children’s Clinic, Medical Genetics and Rheumatology. However, a large potential for improvement exists regarding the collaboration with very large departments such as, for instance, the Department of Internal Medicine and Department of Heart Disease. If all leaders at the hospital and the institutes were represented in each other’s leader groups, then this could perhaps promote this collaboration. Here we can learn from the exciting solutions they have in Trondheim, where hospital and university leadership collaborate very closely.
Nothing has been decided in advance. Thus, I hope for a creative and constructive seminar.
Eystein Husebye
Head of Department
Small operational funds 2015
The K2 research groups may now apply for small operational funds 2015. Deadline: 01.03.2015. Click here for more information (in Norwegian).
Click here for application form (in Norwegian)
Medical student review
On February 17 the Medical Student Review (medisinerrevyen) will arrange a best-of-review. For more information (in Norwegian)
