MED-nytt, no 5 ¨C 2025

Editorial

Dean Hanne Harbo and Vice-Dean for Research and Research Education Grete Anita Dyb talk about this year's NorDoc Summer School for young researchers, which is being held in Oslo for the first time. The school is a collaboration between 20 Nordic universities. This year, they have also invited colleagues from Ukraine.

Read the full editorial and see the photo's from this year's International Women's Day event.

News about MED

Frigessi and Lie partners in new EU grants

Arnoldo Frigessi and Hanne Cathrine Lie will contribute to separate projects.

Read the full article on the institute's website.

Studies

Lillehammer chosen as study location for UiO

Applicants to the medicine programme at the University of Oslo can spend their final three years at UiO Campus Innlandet in Lillehammer. This will be the second external campus for medicine at UiO. MED was awarded 15 new study places for decentralised medical education in Innlandet in the 2025 state budget.

Read the full article on our study pages (in Norwegian).

Positive learning environment,
but some concerns too

Students in the Faculty of Medicine are satisfied with many aspects of the learning environment. However, 4 percent report having experienced racism in a teaching context, according to a new survey.

Read the full article on our study pages (in norwegian)

Educational placement for medical students at Lillehammer Hospital

Medical students are warmly welcomed and get close to patients and staff during their placement period. ?As a medical student at Lillehammer Hospital, you are well-supported and included from the very start?, says Maria Helene Bowler Pascoe.

Read the full interview on our study pages.

Briefings to our staff

• UiO: Rector Election 2025: The election will take place between 24th March and 4th April. At UiO, both staff and students have the right to vote. The general rule is that salaried staff in at least a 50% position, as well as Professor II, have voting rights. Whether you have the right to vote depends on whether you are employed or are a student on the day you cast your vote.

• IMB: Excavation work at Domus Medica: The work on the patient hotel has been delayed, and the pedestrian bridge will be closed for a week.
• Helsam: A legislative change endangering research ethics. Opinion piece in Khrono in Norwegian by Jan Helge Solbakk, Rose Bernabe, Shereen Cox, and S?ren Holm. Norwegian authorities are proposing amendments to the Health Research Act that threaten the research ethics committee system.
• MED: Meet with the deanery. Newly appointed professors and associate professors are invited to a informal meeting to get to know the faculty management and build networks at the faculty.
• Helsam: Trust, quality, and continuity must also characterise tomorrow's general practitioner system. Opinion piece in Dagens Medisin in Norwegian by Harald Jodalen, Maria Rom?ren, Erik Werner, Trygve Skonnord, and Torunn Bjerve Eide.

Management meetings

• Instituttlederm?tet: The next meeting is on 18 March. The meetings are held every other Tuesday from 13:30 to 15:30. Agenda papers should be sent by 12:00 on the preceding Thursday.
• The Faculty Director's seksjonslederm?te every Monday at 12:00.
• Overview of Faculty Board meetings and IDF meetings in 2025 with deadlines for submitting items. The next Faculty Board meeting is on 8 April 2025. The agenda and minutes for the Faculty Board are updated here.
• Meetings of the University Board in 2025, with agendas and minutes. The meetings are streamed and open for anyone who wishes to follow along. The next meeting is on 11 March.

Opportunities and deadlines

See all deadlines for applications for research funding under Funding opportunities. 

• Keep an eye on the annual awards calendar. There are several active calls for applications out now!

• NFR: This year, The National Science Week is held from 17 to 28 September, and the theme is safety. You can now apply for support for activities during The National Science Week 2025 (Norwegian). Deadline: 12 March.

• UiO: UiO: Who should receive the University of Oslo's Human Rights Award 2025 ? (Norwegian). Until 15 March, individuals, associations, and organisations, both within and outside the University of Oslo, can nominate candidates for this year's Human Rights Award.

• UiO Growth House:
  Call: UiO Growth House seed funding for innovative researchers 2025.Do you have an innovative idea based on your research for a new product or service, but need funding to develop your early-stage technology or service further? Apply for seed funding from The UiO Growth House! Application deadline: 20 March 2025.

• UiO:Life Science 

  • Apply for support for internationalisation. Academic staff, postdoctoral researchers, and PhD students in life sciences at UiO can apply for funding to strengthen collaboration with international research communities. The next application deadline is 1st June 2025.

  • Academic staff, postdoctoral researchers, PhD students, and student associations at UiO can apply to UiO: Life Sciences for co-funding of open events that align with the initiative's strategy. The next application deadline is 1st June 2025.

  • Researchers in life sciences at UiO can apply for incentive funds for FRIPRO applications submitted from now until the end of 2025. 

Courses and events

See the University of Oslo¡¯s calendar for an overview of all available courses. See also updated overviews of courses from UiO IT (in Norwegian) and the Updated course overview from the University Library.

Overview: Upcoming public defences.

• 13 March: Election meeting at Georg Sverdrup's House: Grill a Rector! We'll be grilling a (future) rector on everything related to student life. Who will do the most for student societies? Who has the best climate goals? And who should you really vote for? Come find out with us at the students' election meeting ¨C We promise sparks!

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  18 March: Teaching Prize in the Medicine Professional Programme and Spring Association Day at the Faculty All students and staff are welcome at Domus Medica to get to know the faculty's student associations and to attend the awarding of the Teaching Prize in the Medicine Professional Programme.

• 19 March: Election meeting at Georg Sverdrup's House: Who do you want as the new UiO rector? (Link in Norwegian but this meeting will be partly held in English) Catch the election final. This will be the last election meeting before voting opens on 24 March. The Faculty of Medicine has candidates in all three teams.

• 19 March: Class in Focus: The Privileged Live Longer. Do you have a long education and financial security? Then you are likely to live longer and have fewer health problems than those with shorter education and less financial means. Panel members: Henrik Daae Zachrisson, Jonas Minet Kinge, Gunvor Aasb?, Vegard Fykse Skirbekk, and Magnus Marsdal.

• 24 March - 28 March: Data management week 2025. Learn how to plan, organise, and share your research data. Discover more about "FAIR data" and requirements for open data and reuse strategies. Gain practical experience with the "FAIR Wizard Norway" tools for DMPs, SQL for large datasets, and Git for version control.

• The Postdoctoral Program¡¯s courses for the spring 2025 ¨C A golden opportunity for postdocs and other researchers at the beginning of their career. We recommend that all postdoctoral fellows at MED complete these courses to assist in their future career paths. Sign up today! Note that the list has been updated with new courses.

  • 25-26 March: Research Management. The course provides enhanced knowledge about research management.

  • 8-9 May: Career Development. Gain greater awareness of your own skills and various career paths.

  • 19-20 May: Supervision: How to become a better supervisor? Gain understanding and tools for the supervisory role.

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Medisinbloggen:  Stroke ¨C Are there differences between women and men? by Else Charlotte Sandset og Vilde Teigene M?l?y in Norwegian. Women who suffer from a stroke may have different symptoms compared to men. What are the differences, and how are patients received by healthcare professionals?
 

Universitetsplassen/ IMB: Encouraging young people to look up from the test tube. Professor K?re-Olav Stensl?kken could have been a farmer and compares research to ploughing a field. Listen to the podcast and read about how his curiosity brought him to where he is today.

Medisinbloggen: Is it safe to monitor heart failure patients at home? by Peder Langeland Myhre in Norwegian. Heart failure treatment has improved, resulting in better prognoses, but remains resource-intensive for healthcare services, patients, and families. What solutions are possible?
 

Nrk/ Helsam: Three diseases could cost the state 100 billion. Together with a team of researchers, Jonas Minet Kinge, professor of health economics at UiO and senior researcher at FHI, has examined which diseases will be the most costly for Norway in the future. At the top of the list are dementia, stroke, and diabetes.

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