Daily Archives: Friday September 24th, 2021

Editorial

OSCE and application deadline for status as Excellent Teacher

The White Paper «Quality Culture in Higher Education» emphasized that all Norwegian universities must establish a pedagogical qualification framework. The intention with a pedagogical qualification framework is to inspire and reward teachers and academic communities for systematic work in educational development. At MED, the status as Excellent Teacher leads to a permanent salary raise as well as membership in a “pedagogical academy” of excellent teachers at the faculty. Basic pedagogical qualification is required. There is now a new application deadline for status as Excellent Teacher. It is important to read and address the criteria on which the evaluation of the applications is based. Please do not hesitate to contact me at mette.vesterhus@uib.no if you consider submitting an application or have questions. We hope that some of our skilled and enthusiastic teachers will submit well-written applications which will win this award!

Application deadline: November 1st

OSCE 12 will be arranged on December 8th, and planning is well under way. The responsible persons for subjects that are part of the exam this year are alerted and will recruit sensors. The administration will reach out to administrative and technical staff and request their participation. OSCE is important and require teamwork and team spirit. We expect that everybody responds to requests with a positive attitude. We want to thank all of you who have contributed in previous years – and those of you who are contributing to OSCE 12 this December!

SAVE THE DATE October 20, 15.00: Celebration seminar for Bjørn Tore Gjertsen being awarded King Olav V’s Prize for Cancer Research 2021

Dear all

We are happy to invite you to a celebration seminar October 20 at 15.00 to celebrate the awarding of King Olav V’s Prize for Cancer Research 2021 to CCBIO PI and Co-Director Bjørn Tore Gjertsen.

Place: Store Auditorium (the large auditorium), Sentralblokken (main building), Haukeland University Hospital.

Time: October 20, 2021 at 15:00

At the end of the seminar, a reception with tapas and refreshments will be held at the back of the auditorium.

Prior to the seminar on October 20, the award ceremony itself will take place in Oslo on October 18, 13-14.00.  H. M. King Harald will then present the prize to Professor Gjertsen and the whole ceremony will be streamed online as well as showed in real time on screen in the auditorium in Armauer Hansens Hus.

Link to award ceremony

More info about the prize here

Save the dates for now, and more info, including registration, will follow!

New editor of the K2 newsletter

Hi.

I am the new editor of the K2 newsletter.

My name is Jens Vikse. I am a rheumatology resident, who just started a four year PhD program at UiB.  My PhD project focuses on the newly recognized rheumatic disease “IgG4-related disease”

Besides rheumatology, I also have an interest in immunology and medical education. I am the author of an immunology textbook with accompanying video lectures. More information can be found here.

I look forward to serving as the editor for this newsletter. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out.