Dear colleagues,
At the Faculty of Medicine, we are fully underway with the semester. Among many other activities, there is a great deal of active work being done on our study portfolio, and here we summarise some of the essential work in progress.
Team Seminar
A new semester means new students. The faculty is committed to ensure that students have a good start by getting to know each other and learn how to collaborate throughout their studies. Therefore, new medical and nutrition students at the faculty are given training in teamwork during a two-day seminar in the first week after the academic year begins.
Students are randomly placed into groups that will work together during the first year of study, and they are assigned a senior student as a mentor.
The seminar includes training in team theory, practical exercises, informal socialising, and the team formulates an agreement on what they want to achieve and how to get there.
January Seminar
An essential part of medical education is practical experience in local hospitals, nursing homes, and primary healthcare services. These practice periods are held in various locations across Southern and Eastern Norway.
Every winter, more than a hundred practice supervisors are invited to a two-day seminar about academic topics related to conducting medical education. The overarching theme for this year's "January Seminar" was "Back to Basics" – Core Values in Clinical General Medicine, with parallel sessions for supervisors in hospitals and nursing homes.
A significant topic that sparked a lot of engagement is the assessment of students' suitability to be doctors. These are challenging assessments, but since the supervisors have the opportunity to observe and get to know the students over time, they are in a particularly good position to contribute to this work.
During the seminar, the award for the Practice Supervisor of the Year is also presented.
Decentralised Medical Education in Innlandet
The University of Oslo (UiO), the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), and Innlandet Hospital Trust have established a joint project structure for the development of decentralised medical education in Innlandet.
By 2025, much of the planning should be completed. The medical programme is large and complex, and planning how two courses will be run concurrently in Innlandet is challenging. However, we have made a good start and have excellent collaboration with the other stakeholders.
The first UiO students to undergo a course with three years in Oslo and three years in Innlandet will be admitted in the autumn of 2025 and will move to Innlandet in 2028. We are confident they will receive an excellent educational offer and that it will also contribute to enhancing medical research and education in Innlandet.
We have written about this in Oppland Arbeiderblad in Norwegian: Collaboration on Medical Education in Innlandet
We will continue this important work together!
Best regards, Hanne and Magnus
January Seminar for Teachers and Team Seminar for Students
Photos from this year's January seminar and the team seminar at Sundvolden in 2022. Please note that the captions are in Norwegian.
