DOCTORAL THESIS. Professionally active doctors increasingly hesitate to take on the task of tutoring students from undergraduate medical education. Stress and pressure from higher up, and sometimes also from colleagues, contributes to this ambivalence, according to a thesis at Sahlgrenska Academy. ”If you don’t have clear support from management, a mistrust of the tutors can arise; you’re viewed as someone who doesn’t take care of patients and is just…
Henrik Sjövall: PatSim – dags att sjösätta!
COLUMN. Sahlgrenska Academy has a new web application that can provide medical students with simulated patient cases on which to practice their budding skills. The program works, but it lacks content. Henrik Sjövall recounts the ups and downs of the PatSim app development process – and calls for passionate contributors to help create patient cases for the project. One of many overlooked attractions in Gothenburg is the wharf at Gullbergsvass,…
With umbrellas in the goodie bag
MEETINGS. What is to be got out of organizing an international conference on your own turf and within your own sphere of research? We asked Johan Hellgren who heads the ENT Department at the Sahlgrenska Academy to tell us a bit about how to succeed with this and also to give a few tips on the way. At the beginning of June a 3-day Nordic Ear, Nose and Throat conference…
Eric Hanse: Fun and exciting time for the development of Medicinareberget
COLUMN. All ideas are now being put on the table in the work on Sahlgrenska Life, writes Pro-Dean Eric Hanse in his column. The projects are arranging both workshops and field trips to identify University of Gothenburg’s and Västra Götaland Region’s shared future needs. This is an exciting time for Sahlgrenska Academy. We are at the beginning of an extensive period of development that I am convinced can give us…
How the construction process works
CONSTRUCTION PLANS. Planning major building work starts a process consisting of five different stages, each clearly distinguishable from the other. The construction plans for the Medicinareberget campus are currently at the first stage of the process – conducting a pilot study. The next stages are the program stage, the system stage, detailed project planning, then the construction stage. The stages often overlap each other, but not until the final stage…
Eleven years in eleven minutes – retirement interview with Vice-Chancellor Pam Fredman (in Swedish)
WEB TV. After eleven years as Vice-Chancellor, Pam Fredman now retires. What is she most satisfied with, what is required to lead a large university like the one in Gothenburg and what will she do now? This and much more is covered in this interview about Pam Fredman’s time as Vice-Chancellor, 2006-2017. Pam Fredman is interviewed by Calle Björned.
Unique joint clinical training in the center of Sahlgrenska Life
MEDICINAREBERGET. A new large clinical skills training center where both health-care personnel and students can hone their abilities of carrying out different tasks, learn new techniques and learn how to cooperate across professional borders. The idea has been greatly appreciated on both sides of Per Dubbsgatan and is well on the way to being a joint initiative within Sahlgrenska Life. The clinical training center is currently operating under the working…
Taking stock early on is crucial for working late in life
NEW STUDY. Do you want to keep working until you’re 70, or even 75? Then, it’s good to give this some thought before you turn 50. New research now calls for early planning, and at the same time shoots down prejudices against working seniors. “We initially believed that people who worked late in life had an arranged situation that they just stepped into. That they, for example, handled the bookkeeping…
Horse riding and rhythm-and-music helping stroke recovery
NEW STUDY. Horseback riding and rhythm-and-music therapies may improve stroke survivors’ perception of recovery, gait, balance, grip strength and cognition years after their stroke, according to new research in the prestigious American Heart Association’s journal Stroke. Researchers studied 123 Swedish men and women aged 50-75 who had suffered strokes between 10 months and 5 years earlier. Trial participants were randomly assigned to rhythm-and-music therapy, horse-riding therapy or ordinary care, with…
Henrik Sjövall: How do you show someone round a hospital, and an island community, in two days?
CHRONICLE. Three times Henrik Sjövall has had the privilege of visiting the Patan Academy of Health Sciences, a faculty of medicine founded by Dr Arjun Karki, which hopefully will provide the Nepalese countryside with doctors. When Arjun recently made a quick visit to Gothenburg, Henrik took the chance to show him a hospital, university and an island community to which he is proud to belong. Many years ago, I was…
Michael Schöll behind Introduction of New Brain Imaging Technology
YOUNG RESEARCHERS. Michael Schöll is the latest researcher to be recruited to the Wallenberg Centre for Molecular and Translational Medicine in Gothenburg. He brings with him expertise about an imaging technology for the brain that was not available here before, which will mean new, and more far-reaching opportunities to study the diseases of the brain. This ‘PET’, i.e. positron emission tomography, scanning is a medical imaging technology that uses radioactive…
Research colleagues run for science
SPORTS. Why march for science when you can run? In the spring, colleagues from the MIVAC research center donned their running shoes and team shirts and participated in three different races: Women’s Run Riga, Göteborgsvarvet, and Blodomloppet. One of the enthusiastic runners from MIVAC is doctoral student Inta Gribonika, who believes that these races are about more than just wellness care for the employees: “We run not only to promote a…
Newly discovered disease mechanism for type 2 diabetes
NEW STUDY. A newly discovered mechanism behind reduced insulin production in type 2 diabetes is now being presented. In an article in Nature Communications, researchers at Sahlgrenska Academy describe how insulin-producing cells regress in their development, become immature, and do not work properly. A finding that opens the doors to new clinical treatments. “If you can affect things at the cellular level and restore the body’s own rapid regulation, you…
The master’s program in Reproductive and Perinatal Health – first round of graduates
EDUCATION. The first round of students admitted to the newly established master’s program in Reproductive and Perinatal Health have defended their theses. Their research work proved to be of exceptional quality, and was rewarded with a scholarship from the Professor A.L. Lindquist Scholarship Fund. The master’s program in Reproductive and Perinatal Health admitted its first round of students in the autumn semester of 2015. The development of the program means…
A New Era of Medicine with iPS Cells – lecture with Nobel Laureate Shinya Yamanaka
Shinya Yamanaka, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, will visit the University of Gothenburg on September 7. All students and employees are invited to attend the lecture. Registration is needed. Shinya Yamanaka received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2012 “for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent”. He shared the Prize with Sir John B. Gurdon from Great Britain. Their work demonstrated that…
Pam Fredman and Karl Swedberg recipients of the Merit Sign of the City of Gothenburg
AWARDS. Pam Fredman, Vice-Chancellor of University of Gothenburg, and Karl Swedberg, Senior Professor at Sahlgrenska Academy, are two of eleven people who receive the award Merit Sign of the City of Gothenburg 2017. Since 1948, the Merit Sign has been distributed to people who have made a significant contribution to the City of Gothenburg. The recipients of the Merit Sign are appointed by the City Council and it is awarded…
Christina Jern declines assignment as Dean
FACULTY MANAGEMENT. Shortly after the advisory election of dean earlier this spring, when the faculty members of staff gave their vote of confidence to Christina Jern, Christina unexpectedly became ill. She has now come to the conclusion that she will not be able to accept the appointment to dean, and has announced her decision to the Vice-Chancellor. The Sahlgrenska Academy Faculty Board will come back with more information on the…
The award Thesis of the Year has been distributed – photo report
AWARD. When the award Thesis of the Year was distributed in Academicum, the photographer Francis Löfvenholm was in place. You can now see his wonderful photos from the event here in Akademiliv. Here you can find an article with more information about the recipients of this year’s awards: http://130.241.135.136/2017/05/40383/
Camilla Hesse first recipient of Internationalization Award
AWARD. Camilla Hesse, a lecturer in the Department of Clinical Chemistry and Transfusion Medicine, has been chosen as the first recipient of a new award recognizing internationalization of teaching and learning at medical faculties in Sweden. The decision to give her the award was made at the national gathering of university deans in Uppsala, Sweden, held recently. “Internationalization has so many benefits, and opens so many doors! When you travel…
New honorary doctors of medicine at Sahlgrenska Academy
INTERACTION. Madeleine Olsson Eriksson, Helen von Sydow and Oscar von Sydow have been appointed as this year’s honorary doctors at Sahlgrenska Academy. “All three have made significant, committed efforts to further the work of the Academy and out students,” says Pro-Dean Eric Hanse. Since its inception in 2005, more than 400 students have received scholarships through the projects that Helen von Sydow and Oscar von Sydow initiated and funded through…