Dear colleagues and students,
Christmas and the end of 2023 are approaching and we can look back on an eventful year at the Faculty of Medicine.
It has been a great pleasure for all of us who started as new Deans in January to get stuck in with the interesting and important work undertaken by our staff and students. We have found a number of photos in the archives that show some of the things that happened throughout the year. We hope that you will enjoy this retrospective (below) as much as we did.
We would like to thank you all for the excellent work you have each invested and for your warm welcome when we joined the Office of the Dean and, of course, the fantastic collaboration. We look forward to further developing the work at the Faculty with you.
Remember that you are all invited to a joint kick-off to the New Year with an open meeting at Domus Bibliotheca on Wednesday 17 January between 15:00 and 17:00. We hope to see many of you there.
We would like to wish you all a well-deserved Christmas break and a Happy New Year and we look forward to seeing you all again in 2024!
Yours sincerely, Hanne, Jan, Magnus, Eli, Grete and Hans
Key events in 2023
Kick-off 18 January
The year started with a “kick-off meeting“ for staff and students, with brief talks by representatives from the different units and beautiful singing from one of the student choirs before we all mingled at Domus Medica.
Dialogue meetings and unit visits
During the spring semester, the Office of the Dean conducted a number of visits and dialogue meetings at all of the major units at the Faculty. We also visited or were visited by our closest partners at UiO, other universities and university colleges and hospitals in the region.
Global health
Several of the Deans participated in trips and events relating to global health. In April, the Dean travelled to Nepal and in September the Vice-Dean of Research and Organised Research Training visited Tanzania as part of an event relating to research collaborations. We have also hosted several foreign delegations here at the Faculty.
NorDoc and Orpheus
The Vice-Dean of Organised Research Training has assumed the role of chair for the NorDoc partnership, a consortium that works to promote outstanding PhD programmes and has members from 20 universities in the Nordic region. Together with the PhD section, she has also followed up on the international collaboration for PhD programmes in medicine and health through Orpheus.
Doctorate conferments
Four times a year, the Faculty of Medicine participates in the formal ceremony at the beautiful UiO auditorium when doctorates are conferred to candidates who will receive their certificates from the Rector. Our Faculty produces nearly 200 new doctors each year and it is a pleasure to be able to celebrate each and every one of them in this way.
Strategy and annual plan
During the spring semester, the entire management team was working on developing a strategy for the Faculty and this strategy has been further built on as part of the work on the 2024-2026 annual plan this autumn. We would like to thank all of the staff and students who contributed to the work on these plans, which will now be used as a tool for future work.
Foundation stone laying for the Life Science Building
The work on the plans for the Life Science Building is ongoing. In May, the foundation stone for the building was laid during an event attended by both the Minister of Health and Social Care and the Minister of Education. A model of a DNA module that was 3D-printed at the Mechanical Workshop at the Institute of Basic Medical Sciences with an inscription of the Faculty’s vision “Outstanding knowledge for future health” was laid down in the building as part of the foundation stone.
The Brain in the Centre, the Research Expo and the Medicine Blog
Throughout the year, people at the Faculty of Medicine have participated in joint, open UiO events at Domus Bibliotheca in the city centre and these have been very well attended. The Research Expo attracted several hundred school pupils who visited the stands at the Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology. The “Medicine Blog”, which is an open channel that can be used by all staff to disseminate research, turned five and we hope to see many more interesting posts going forward. We would like to thank everyone who helps communicate important knowledge in different ways!
Campus South
The autumn semester began with great festivity at S?rlandet Hospital Trust, when the Dean, Dean of Studies and Vice-Rector of Studies opened UiO Campus South as our first decentralised campus, with some very satisfied fourth-year medical students in place. The faculty management is now working on the planning of a decentralised UiO Campus in Innlandet.
Ukraine-seminar
The open faculty meeting this autumn took place in September at the auditorium in the city centre and the topic was “Health for Ukraine”. Talks by and involving Ukrainian refugees, as well as a number of our researchers who presented their project partnerships, left strong impressions.
Welcome meetings for employees
Throughout the autumn, we arranged several meetings for new employees at the Faculty.
Life skills for medical students.
The Faculty arranged a joint meeting for students on the topic of “Life skills”.
Photo carousel showing archive photos from 2023
See photos from the described events and more below. The image carousel goes back in time.
