Monthly Archives: March 2019

Announcement of competence funding for group C (technical/administrative staff)

The criteria for allocation of funds are:

  1. The application must be professionally relevant and supported by the research group leader.
  2. The research group must contribute with 50% of the costs.

Link to application form here.

Written applications can be sent to Julie Stavnes.

(Norwegian) Søk på kurs innen vurdering i medisinsk utdanning!

Nasjonal delprøves midler fra NOKUTs Utdanningskvalitetspris går blant annet til kompetanseheving innenfor medisinsk vurdering. Nå kan du søke om å få dekket reise, opphold og kursavgift via utgiftsrefusjon. Tilbudet er rettet mot ansatte som ønsker å ta kurs innen vurdering i medisinsk utdanning.

Vi oppfordrer deg til å søke om plass på ett av kursene! Du kan også melde interesse for å delta på kurs i 2020. Kursdatoer for 2020 er ikke publisert enda, men forventes å ligge omtrent på samme tidspunkt som for 2019.

Hvem kan søke?

Alle som lager eksamensoppgaver til eksamener ved medisinstudiene ved norske universiteter og/eller lager oppgaver til nasjonal delprøve i medisin kan søke.
Teknisk-administrative som jobber tett med eksamen kan også søke, selv om de ikke lager oppgaver.

Hvordan søker du?

Søknaden bør inneholde:

  • en kortfattet beskrivelse av din rolle i forhold til eksamener
  • hvilket kurs som er aktuelt

Frist: 1. mai og 1. september

Søknader sendes til arbeidsgruppen for nasjonal delprøve via kontaktperson på din institusjon: Martha Houen Dahle (UiB). 

Les mer om de ulike kursene her.

New publications

Here are recent publications with contributions from K2 based on last week’s search on PubMed (and optionally articles that have not been included in previous lists). This time the list includes in total 8 recent publications. The entries appear in the order they were received from NCBI. If you have publications that are not included in this or previous lists, please send the references to Hege F. Berg.

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Do we see you at Solstrand – there is room for K2’ers

This year’s highlight – the K2 meeting at Solstand – is approaching. The seminar is a prime opportunity for the research groups to present themselves and get to know others. We will hear more about communication, innovation and future plans, and our strategy for the future will be hammered out. K2 employees in Bergen, Stavanger and Haugesund will be represented. The whole session will be led by Pål Njølstad who will be back from Boston full of inspiration and ideas.

You don’t want to miss that do you?

There is still room for more participants. We know that some group leaders will be unable to come, but we want all the groups to be represented and presented.

Help us make an impact for the future.

Eystein Husebye
Acting head of institute

Seminar series The Centre for Nutrition, Wednesday March 20th

The Centre for Nutrition at UiB invites to a new seminar in the series of lectures on nutrition. The series addresses key challenges in nutrition and health.

Time: Wednesday March 20th at 13.30-15.30

Venue: Auditorium 4, BB Building, Jonas Lies vei

Dietary assessment: Challenges and future directions & Biomarkers for dietary intake
Speakers: Dr. Sharon Kirkpatrick and professor Jutta Dierkes

Dietary assessment: Challenges and future directions
In nutritional research, we depend on self-reported dietary data to be able to study associations between diet and health. These data have many limitations, and it is challenging to gather precise dietary data. Several investigators even clams that self-reported data is so unreliable that it cannot be used in research. But is it really the case?

Dr. Sharon Kirkpatrick leads a public health nutrition research program based at the School of Public Health and Health Systems at the University of Waterloo in Canada. Her research primarily focuses on understanding dietary patterns in populations and influences on these patterns, using a systems thinking lens to consider the array of factors at play. Dr. Kirkpatrick also has longstanding interests in food access among marginalized populations. She was named a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics in 2017 and 2018, and has received merit awards from the National Institutes of Health and the University of Waterloo.

Biomarkers for dietary intake
Biomarkers for dietary intake could be a tool for limiting misclassification in nutrition research where self-reported dietary intake data are used, thus biomarkers are extensively used in research today. But are they reliable?

Jutta Dierkes is professor in Clinical Nutrition at the Department of Clinical Medicine at the University of Bergen. She is the chairman of the board of the Mohn Nutrition Research Lab, and also the chariman of the program committee for nutrition at the Faculty of Medicine.

Moderator: Hanne Rosendahl-Riise

There will be light refreshments.

Welcome!

 

New publications

Here are recent publications with contributions from K2 based on last week’s search on PubMed (and optionally articles that have not been included in previous lists). This time the list includes in total 24 recent publications. The entries appear in the order they were received from NCBI. If you have publications that are not included in this or previous lists, please send the references to Hege F. Berg.

Continue reading