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Joint announcement of fellow and postdoctoral positions | 16 February

The joint announcement of fellow and postdoctoral positions at the faculty this spring will be published online and in public announcement in BT on Friday 16 February, with application deadline on 11 March 2018. There are ten open fellow appointments and four postdoctoral positions. New at this announcement of fellowships is that the supervisors must have completed the faculty’s online course for supervisors before applying. Those who want to take this course, must contact their department for access.

Research Council of Norway | Application round 2018

This is a kind reminder to those of you planning to submit an application to one or several of RCN’s programs BEDREHELSE, BEHANDLING, HELSEVEL and FRIPRO. The sketch deadline was Thursday 15.

We hope those of you who still have not sent in a sketch, but plan to apply, can send a 1–2 page description of the project by Tuesday 20 February to Amra Grudic-Feta.

Amra

New seminar from the Centre for Nutrition | 27 February

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

Time: Tuesday 27 February at. 12: 0-13: 00.
Venue: Auditorium 4, BB Building, Jonas Lies vei.

Program:
“Gestational hypercholesterolemia and offspring cholesterol and modulation of cholesterol levels by dietary changes.”
Professor Kirsten B. Holven, head of Division for clinical nutrition, Department of Nutrition, University of Oslo; and head of research, National Advisory Unit on Familial Hypercholesterolemia, Oslo University Hospital.

Moderator: Oddrun Anita Gudbrandsen.

There will be light refreshments. Welcome!

The Postgraduate School of Medical Research’s Network Luncheon | 27 February

Dear all,

The Postgradute School of Clinical Medicine is preparing a new Network Luncheon for all PhD fellows and researchers at K1 and K2 departments.

Now is the time to sign up as a presenter, if you would like to present your latest results, engage in discussion with other PhD students and practice your presentation skills.

The upcoming Network Luncheon will take place Tuesday 27 February, in the Konferanserom of BBB (in front of auditoriums 2 and 4), from 11:30 to 13:00.

Register your participation here

Take a break from your daily lab-routine and enjoy a free lunch, socialize and hear talks from fellow PhD students, and on top of all that, earn one ECTS point!

If you would like to earn one ECTS by signing up for “Seminar in clinical and translational medicine” (FSKLI901), please contact Irene Lavik Hjelmaas.

Feel free to contact us with any questions you may have!

Looking forward,

Irene and Yasaman

Mandatory sketch as a basis for application for research infrastructure | 15 May

The Norwegian Research Council invites you to submit a mandatory sketch as a basis for later submitting an application for funding from the National Research Infrastructure Initiative (INFRASTRUCTURE). Deadline for submission of sketch is 15 May 2018. The main announcement will have application deadline 10 October. It will only be open to applications based on a sketch submitted to the application deadline on 15 May. Read more here. (Link in Norwegian.)

19th Nordic workshop in knowledge-based practice | 4-7 June

To all at the university who teach in medicine, nursing and other health-related subjects.

Do you want to train to integrate current research into your teaching?

From 4 to 7 June 2018, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health arranges the 19th Nordic workshop in knowledge-based practice in Oslo.

It has long been a goal for educational institutions to strengthen the essence of current research in the teaching. We want the students to learn:

to base practice on research-based knowledge (integrated with clinical experience and patient /user preferences)
to individualize clinical decisions
to renew their knowledge

Integrating current research into teaching may seem time consuming, and we need thinking, motivation and tools to get it done.

We form a small group of teachers from the university and college sector if there are sufficient numbers. They will work together for four days with guidance from experienced colleagues from home and abroad.

Note that there is a reduced price for individual enrollment before 1 March and possibility for group discounts (at least three participants from the same workplace) by enrollment before 1 April.

More information, including registration, is available on the Norwegian Institute of Public Health’s website. (Link in Norwegian.)

For questions and more information contact: Anne Brit Simonsen or Hilde Strømme.

Conference on migration

The UiB initiative Global Challenges organizes a conference on “Migration” for employees at the University on 9 March. The purpose of the conference is to gather researchers at UiB, which in some way are interested in the causes and effects of migration, and further look at new interdisciplinary cooperation projects. Migration and health cover many subjects, and everyone at the Faculty of Medicine, who is interested in various aspects of this, is encouraged to sign up for the conference.

Information.

Workshop on EC’s expert database | 13 March

Workshop on “Registration for the EC’s expert database and how to increase your chances to be selected”.

On Tuesday 13 March (at. 9:00–11:00), Kristof Vlaeminck, head of the UiBs Brussels Office, will give a workshop on how to register for the expert database of the European Commission in order to be a potential evaluator of Horizon2020 projects. After an introduction by the pro-dean of research, Marit Bakke, and a short overview of the different aspects of the registration, the participants will start creating their profile while Kristof assists them. The aim of the workshop is that all participants have finished registering and can be selected by the European Commission. Don’t forget to bring your own laptop if you participate to the workshop.

The workshop will take place in the faculty boardroom, 4th floor, Armauer Hansens Hus. To register for the workshop, please send an email to: Ingunn.Flatebo@uib.no.

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Deadlines

Dear all,

Please see below the updated links for external funding.

External funding opportunities:
http://www.uib.no/en/med/112772/external-funding-opportunities

Funding opportunities for education:
http://www.uib.no/med/113987/funding-opportunities-education

The webpages are updated every second week. New calls are marked with NEW.

New for this week is the opening of the call for Exploratory Pre-Seed Grants from Novo Nordisk, in addition to news in this years’ INFRASTRUCTURE announcement from Research Council of Norway. This is a popular call for researchers at the Faculty of Medicine, and the mandatory sketch deadline is 15 May 2018.

Please let us know if you have any comments on the webpages or if the researchers at your department are missing something.

Kind regards,
Amra, Ramune, Itana and Kaia

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 16 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 Johnny Laupsa-Borge.

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PhD Comics

Research education at the Department of Clinical Science

As new deputy head of research at the Department of Clinical Science, will research education be something I focus on. The past years, the number of PhD thesis defences at the Faculty for Medicine has declined. While it was 98 and 97 defences in 2015 and 2016, respectively, it was only 82 in 2017. At the same time, the number of candidates taken up into the PhD programme has been quite stable between 90 and 100 per year. The numbers for the Department of Clinical Science are following a similar pattern. The number of defences has decreased from 31 in 2015 to 19 in 2017, while around 30 new PhD fellows have been taken up per year. Therefore, the leader group will give more attention to having PhD candidates finalizing their thesis and try to arrange as good as possible for this to happen. All PhD candidates and supervisors are encouraged to take contact if they encounter any problems.

In the last round of PhD positions from the Medical Faculty, the Department of Clinical Science was very successful with up to 16 new PhD candidates. That is very good news! Most of them have gotten a 4 years position with 25% obligatory duty work. As the head of research at the time, Roland Jonsson, wrote already in 2014, this is a great asset for the institute. In order to get a fair distribution of the obligatory duty work, all PhD candidates financed from the university will be contacted during the next weeks for a short meeting regarding planning of the obligatory duty work, together with representatives from the leader group, main supervisor and PhD coordinator Irene Hjelmaas.

Silke

My Time

In order to improve the time registration at the University of Bergen, the University Management has decided that all technical and administrative staff at UiB should use My Time (“Min Tid”). This applies to both those with fixed and flexible working hours, and hourly paid. My Time will replace the flex time schedule, and for hourly paid, the system will replace the time lists.

My Time will be introduced on Monday 12 February for all employees who have a flexible schedule today, with the exception of IKO clinics and employees at the Animal Department. They will come later.

Information about My Time is given at the following locations and times:

IGS
Monday 12.2. at. 9–10, Bjerkedalsrommet, Kalfaret.

IKO
Wednesday 14.2. at. 10:45.

HUS / BBB
Friday 9.2. at. 13–14, auditorium 4, BBB
Monday 12.2. at. 12–13, conference room, BBB
Wednesday 14.2. at. 12:30–13:30, auditorium 4, BBB

Introduction to Office 365

In connection with the launch of Office 365 at UiB, a task kit has been created that provides a basic introduction to the software package. Read more on the web pages here.

Log in to Office 365.

Download the tasks.

Award to Kai Triebner

Kai Triebner, postdoctoral fellow at K2, received recently the price for the best original research paper 2017 from the Norwegian Association for Pulmonary Medicine (Norsk forening for lungemedisin).

The award was given for the article Menopause is associated with accelerated lung function decline.

K2 congratulates!

Deadlines

Dear all,

Please see below the updated links for external funding.

External funding opportunities:
http://www.uib.no/en/med/112772/external-funding-opportunities

Funding opportunities for education:
http://www.uib.no/med/113987/funding-opportunities-education

The webpages are updated every second week. New calls are marked with NEW.

Please let us know if you have any comments on the webpages or if the researchers at your department are missing something.

Kind regards,
Amra, Ramune, Itana and Kaia

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 19 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 Johnny Laupsa-Borge.

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PhD Comics

The Annual Research Presentations

I am writing to you to encourage participation at the upcoming week´s event, the Annual Research Presentations by the Research School in Clinical Medicine.

What is The Research School in Clinical Medicine?

It is an arena for PhD students from K1, K2 and Helse-Bergen to socialize and present own research to fellow students. The research school also organizes courses that may be included as part of the mandatory training component of the PhD program, and a seminar series where current research from the faculty is presented by excellent speakers.

Our own Professor Stefan Johansson is the current leader. The team also includes Researcher Kristoffer Haugarvoll (K1), Leader of the Research Unit for Children, Camilla Tøndel (Helse Bergen), Researcher Stian Knappskog (K2), Professor Thomas Halvorsen (K2), Solveig Lund Witsøe (K1), PhD Student Torbjørn Kråkenes (K1), and PhD Student Andreas Venizelos (K2).

The poster presentations will take place Wednesday 24 January in the reception foyer, floor 0, Sentralblokken, Haukeland University Hospital; oral presentations Thursday 25 January in Birkhaugssalen, floor 3, Sentralblokken, while the award ceremony will be Friday 26 January 12:00–12:30 in the reception foyer, floor 0, Sentralblokken.

The research school was founded by Professor Emeritus Amund Gulsvik and has been a great success. I take the opportunity to thank him, and all following leaders and staff members for organizing this important event. But what is more, the Research School would be nothing if it were not for the participants, presenters and audience; my sincere thanks to them, too. My high school teacher said I should post the following sentence over my bed: ”Never a day without a line (to read)”. There is always something new to learn. So come! And please, do not only read: Also ask a question. Not to show the others that you can ask a question, but because there is something you want to learn. We learn from questions because that urges us to find out why. Novel knowledge arises.

Enjoy!

Pål Rasmus Njølstad

Falch’s Junior Prize 2018 and Falch Lecture 2019 | Announcements

The Faculty refers to announcements for the Falch’s Junior Prize 2018 and the Falch Lecture 2019.

Proposals are sent to: okonomi@med.uib.no.
Deadline for both: 1 March 2018.

The Junior Prize is awarded on the Faculty’s day, 14 June, which also includes the Falch lecturer of the year, Professor Philippe van de Perre.

BFS Starting Grant

BFS has announced a new round of the recruitment stipend with final deadline 15 March. Since there is a limitation in the number of nominated candidates from each department, we kindly ask interested applicants to send a project sketch of about two pages and their CV (BFS asks for a CV of maximum three pages, including the most important and relevant publications) within 12 February. Please send this information to amra.grudic@uib.no, cc’ing Pål Njølstad and Julie Stavnes.

Seminar on announcements of the Research Council of Norway

Haukeland University Hospital, together with UiB and the Research Council of Norway, invite to a seminar on the announcements HELSEVEL, BEHANDLING and BEDREHELSE with deadline 25 April 2018. Part of the program will cover health relevant EU calls, and information about user involvement and how that can strengthen a project.

In addition, representatives from RCN offer one-to-one sessions on specific EU calls. If this is of interest, please send a «Project Outline» (link in the right margin) to bn@rcn.no one week before the seminar takes place.

Time: 7 February 2018 at. 10:30–15:00.
Venue: Bikuben, Haukeland University Hospital.

Information and program.
Registration.

If you have any questions, please contact Amra Grudic-Feta at K2: amra.grudic@uib.no / 55 97 46 71.

Lecture on the brain’s waterways | 30 January

The Norwegian Academy of Technical Sciences (Norges Tekniske Vitenskapsakademi, NTVA) and Tekna invite to a lecture in Bergen about “The waterways of the brain”.

Lecturer: Marie Rognes, Head of Department, Simula Research Laboratory.
Time: Tuesday 30 January at. 19:00.
Venue: Nansensenteret at Marineholmen, Thormølens gate 47, Bergen.

The meeting is open to all interested parties.

Those who want to attend a single meal after the lecture, must sign up by e-mail not later than Thursday 25 January. The meal is free.

Details of the lecture can be found here. (Link in Norwegian.)

With best regards,
Lars Thomas Dyrhaug
General Secretary NTVA

Deadlines

Here, you find this week’s deadlines.

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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 11 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 Johnny Laupsa-Borge.

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PhD Comics

A fruitful new teaching year

To all K2 employees: Welcome to a fruitful new teaching year! We need you, at all the different levels/programs we conduct; from planning, facilitation (administrative or practical) to the actual performing of teaching. Thanks to everyone!

New this year in the medical curriculum is “Elective period”: In these four first full weeks each year (January), students may choose between different courses of two to four weeks duration. These span from molecular biology to cardiac ultrasound, from learning practical pedagogy with student-driven OSCE stations at the Medical Skills Center to Medicine for the Future. Probably the most extrovert (literally out-doors) is the course in Mountain Medicine, where one student definitely ended up in “deep water”; a (voluntary) student jumped in ice water on the Landås mountain to be rescued and taken care of by fellow students! K2 has prepared several exciting courses, but we need more. We would encourage each of our academic communities / research groups to offer one annual elective course.

The annual study day for K1 / K2, aiming to inspire and improve our teaching, will be held on 2 May (AFTER this spring’s most important research application deadline). There we will demonstrate examples of good student activating teaching, learn how to build a teaching portfolio (to document your own teaching experience / competence), and discuss how to make good station examinations (OSCE). Please note the date in your calendar already.

Apropos OSCE: 20 June, the first really qualifying OSCE exam (objective structured clinical exam) will be held for all 3rd year / 6th semester medical students. Then 160 students will pass through 5 parallel stations, which require contribution from the vast majority of scientific employees and teaching administrators at the medical faculty engaged in the teaching within these 6 semesters. We need you! So, neither dissertations, summer holidays nor congress permissions should be planned for this date.

Jone

75 million for a research program in nuclear medicine

The Tromsø Research Foundation and the Bergen Research Foundation jointly announce a research program in nuclear medicine. This is an initiative from Bergen and Tromsø Research Foundation, and has a budget of up to NOK 75 million for a period of 3–5 years.

The universities and university hospitals in Tromsø, Trondheim and Bergen are invited to nominate a joint application from each city. Applications are prepared by the relevant academic communities and coordinated by theme:

Bergen: PET Radiofarmaka
Trondheim: Clinical studies
Tromsø: Preclinical studies

Link to the announcement text for the Nuclear Medicine / PET program can be found here.

Haukeland University Hospital and the University of Bergen wish that as many academic environments as possible should have the opportunity to collaborate on the application. They therefore invite to an open meeting:

Time: 31 January, at. 09:00–11:30
Location: Bikuben, Haukeland University Hospital.
No registration required.

For more information, contact Tom Christian Adamsen, Center for Nuclear Medicine / PET.

Call for SPIRE funds 2018

The Research Administration Department at UiB has announced funds in the University’s Strategic Program for International Research and Educational Cooperation (SPIRE) for 2018. The program aims to support UiB’s internationalization strategy 2016-2022. This is an important instrument for strengthening the university’s allocation of external research funds and enhancing academic quality through international cooperation.

SPIRE funds can be applied in two categories:

SPIRE funds for international networking and partnership cooperation
SPIRE-guest researcher funds

Scientific staff at UiB can apply for SPIRE funds. Applications are sent through the department to the faculty. The faculty sends all applications together to the Research Administration Department. Only applications that have been assessed, rated and submitted by the faculty within the application deadline will be processed.

See Guidelines for Applicants. And use a specific application form. (Links in Norwegian only.)

Deadline for application: 15 February.

Due to work on K2 before this deadline, the department requests applications to be sent to the head of department no later than Monday 12 February.

Evening meeting on digitization of health services and the Leader Conference 2018

The Norwegian Hospital and Health Service Association (NSH) invites to an evening meeting on digitizing health services followed by the annual leader conference.

Evening meeting: Digitization of health services | 7 February

Innovation in healthcare and health technology, Naeem Zahid, Telenor
Digitalization of health services – who controls this? Christine Bergland, Directorate for e-Health
What are the authorities’ concerns about new solutions? Bjørn Erik Thon, The Norwegian Data Protection Authority
Much new – has this come to be? Is the physician’s role on its way out as we know it today? Is the specialist health service affected? Thorleif Jansen in Kry, Daniel Sørli in Dr. Drop In m.fl.
When does the new technology come in hospitals? How should hospital management think about this? Grethe Aasved in Aleris, Marit Lind at the University Hospital Nord-Norge, and others.

Program and registration. (Link in Norwegian.)

Leader Conference 2018 | 8 and 9 February

The leader conference is a major and important meeting place for healthcare leaders. Every year, hundreds of leaders gather for professional refills, social gathering and networking.

The Minister of Health’s report to health service leaders and the award of NSH’s healthcare prices
OUS – Norway’s largest hospital: opportunities and challenges, Bjørn Erikstein, Oslo University Hospital
Management of hospitals – through change and development, Eivind Hansen, Haukeland University Hospital
Quality bureaucracy – does it help? Anne-Lise Kristensen, ’Pasient- og brukerombudet’ in Oslo and Akershus
When something goes wrong – what did the eye department at St. Olavs Hospital? Marit Fagerli
Mission first, safety always, Geir Arne Mathiesen, Norsk Luftambulanse

Program and registration. (Link in Norwegian.)

Do you want to be an exhibitor? Send an e-mail to julie@nsh.no.

Welcome!

With best regards,
The Norwegian Hospital and Health Service Association

Kine Martinez
const. Secretary General