Dear all,

it is with enthusiasm that I have now stepped into the role as new Head of Teaching at K2 – a comprehensive and multifaceted department with many very skilled colleagues!

I have a background as physician at the Department of Pediatrics at Haukeland University Hospital since 1998 and head of the clinical trials unit for children since 2011 with a strong focus on drug trials and patient-oriented research in general. For over 20 years, I have been involved in medical student teaching, which I have found very meaningful throughout. In March 2022, I started as teaching group leader (UGLE) of pediatrics and MED9 semester chair and have through the latter role been part of the Program Committee in Medicine (PUM) for the past two and a half years.

This week there was a Vestlandslege-meeting in Stavanger with important and good interaction between UiB colleagues in Faggrupper på tvers. There is great excitement related to the governmental budget that will come in a few weeks, where there is hope for a further increase in number of medical students at UiB in line with adjusted plans for Vestlandslegen and similar regional projects at the other medical faculties.

It is nice and meaningful to contribute to us all getting good doctors, pharmacists and nutritionists for the future, and many of you contribute in an impressive way – across subject areas, semesters, departments and professions. In addition, there is a large number of good colleagues in the health care system without a UiB position who provide crucially important student teaching and practice supervision.

Next week we will have the Medical Faculty Joint Teaching Day at Armauer Hansen House. I hope as many of you as possible will have the opportunity to participate!

Camilla

Dear everyone,

On my way to work this morning in the gray weather, I became aware of a man standing next to his bike, looking towards Løvstakken. There was a double rainbow with a magical gleam! Then I thought a bit about the situation at the Department of Clinical Science (K2): we are in a very dark financial situation, but this week we celebrated the opening of the KG Jebsen Center for Myeloid Blood Cancer c-myc, led by Bjørn Tore Gjertsen. It is the 4th KG Jebsen center we have at the department (out of 8 at UiB)! The opening was marked with a two-day symposium with many fine words, and not least exciting scientific lectures. As a very proud head of department, I was able to both thank the foundation for the financial support and congratulate Bjørn Tore. I look forward to following the development of the center and am sure that it will shine as much as the rainbow this morning!

Otherwise, this week we have had a GMO inspection. K2 was praised for having regular internal checks (thank you very much, Siv Lise!), and what was criticized is easy to do something about. So thank you very much to everyone who has contributed to a well-conducted inspection! And a little reminder to everyone who works with GMO that there is a lot of paperwork that needs to be done and not least lab routines that are important to follow.

And I will end with reminding everyone that the faculty is organizing a joint teaching day (in Norwegian) September 24 in the auditorium of AHH.

Have a great weekend!

Greetings from Silke