In NOKUT’s recent national evaluation of medical studies in Norway, the evaluation report concludes that we have curricullum overload both in teaching and in medical student practice, where showing as many different things as possible affects the formation as doctor with clear role models. For adjustment of practice, it may be useful to look to the midwifery education and nursing education, where each student has two practice supervisors and the student primarily alternates with these when they are in their practical term. This provides good shaping, you get to know each other well and can gradually grow with more tasks, see the documentary Children’s Hospital on NRK.
The Joint Education Council HUS_HDS_UiB-MED decided at a meeting on 20 March to appoint a working group for cooperation on the reception and coordination of an increased number of medical students in practice in the Bergen area, and the group had its first meeting this week.
In order to merge the Medisin2015 model and the Vestlandslege-Pilot model into one common multi-campus model, it will be necessary to relocate subjects. It may be desirable not to move more subjects than necessary, especially as this can create challenges in the years of change. It is important all the way to see the medical education as whole, and look at what is appropriate to do common for all the first three years in Bergen and what can be done in a good way at all four campuses in the last 3 years of study.
In this work, close interaction with all the hospitals in Western Norway is central, both between the professional communities and at the institutional level. See minutes from recent collaboration meetings with the hospitals in Stavanger and Førde, respectively, including the mandate/composition of the reference group Førde Vestlandslegen, as well as minutes from the last meeting of the Programme Committee in Medicine.
I wish you all a really nice weekend in the great spring weather!
Camilla
