EDUCATION. Recently the Government’s newly appointed Validation Delegation visited Sahlgrenska Academy. The delegation consists of 15 persons that represent employers and employee organizations, as well as the central authorities, and have assignments that include developing a national strategy for validation of real competence. Validation within higher education is a top prioritized issue for the Validation Delegation, which means that universities will be the focus of their work, with a final…
The Assar Gabrielsson Award goes to Anna Staffas and Rebecka Arnsrud Godtman
AWARD. For the first time, the Assar Gabrielsson Foundation is dividing its award between two medical researchers. The winners, Anna Staffas and Rebecka Arnsrud Godtman, have carried out acclaimed cancer research within leukemia and prostate cancer screening, respectively. The award amount is SEK 100,000 per person. The Assar Gabrielsson Foundation aims to draw attention to both experimental and patient-based research. This is why, from this year on, two prizes will be…
AFA Insurance invests over SEK nine million in research reviews in occupational and environmental medicine
GRANT. AFA Insurance continues its investment in the systematic compilation of research reviews in occupational and environmental medicine. Kjell Torén, Professor at the University of Gothenburg, has had supervision of the report production extended. AFA Insurance has previously invested approximately SEK six million in the compilation, which has, so far, led to a series of reports on the state of research for different diseases and their relationship to both work…
46 new fully trained urotherapists
EDUCATION. Commissioned education courses increase at Sahlgrenska Academy. A unit with a lot of experience is the Department of Pediatrics. Since 1987, they have commissioned education courses in urotherapy, and last Thursday, 46 new urotherapists completed training. Last Thursday, on April 14, the latest group of urotherapists graduated from the University of Gothenburg. “In addition to dissertations and seminars, the week ended with a graduation party that meant that all…
A Totally Sick Exhibition at the Museum of Medical History
INTERACTION.Students from the MFA Fine Art program at Valand Academy and The Museum of Medical History present the exhibition “Totally Sick! Artists’ Interventions in the Medical History Museum”, April 22 – May 12. Totally Sick! / Helt Sjukt! April 22 – May 12, 2016 Medicinhistoriska Museet Östra Hamngatan 11 ‘Totally sick!’ is an exhibition produced and curated by six MFA Fine Art students from Valand Academy and staff from the Medical History…
Postgraduate Programme in Specialist Nursing – Elderly care is of high quality
EDUCATION. The Swedish Higher Education Authority (UKÄ) no longer question the education permit of the University of Gothenburg within specialist nursing in the care of the elderly. The programme is now considered to have high quality, after the follow-up of the former criticism. In October 2014 took education the overall review the lack of quality, which meant that the degree the state of education was questioned. The program was assessed…
Researchers identify new functional biomarker for autism in boys
STUDY.Researchers have developed a new brain imaging measure to identify autism in boys. The method opens up new possibilities to track progress and improve treatment. Researchers have developed a new method to map and track the function of brain circuits affected by autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in boys using brain imaging. The method provides a quantitative measure of activity in a brain circuit associated with social interaction. Biomarker “We can…
Administrative prize for digital system for managing exams
PRIZE. Camilla Torstensson and Jennie Toppari at the Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology are the recipients of the University of Gothenburg’s prize for administrative quality development 2016. They were awarded the prize for developing a system for digital administration and correction of exams – DART. The motivation for this year’s prizewinners is as follows: “By solving a problem in an innovative way “here and now”, the prizewinners have significantly…
Claes Ohlsson named Wallenberg Clinical Scholar
GRANT. Claes Ohlsson, Professor at the Institute of Medicine, is one of five successful clinical researchers that have now been named a Wallenberg Clinical Scholar. Together with his colleagues at the Centre for Bone and Arthritis Research, he runs completely unique research on osteoporosis and fractures. Along with being named, comes a generous research grant totaling SEK fifteen million, distributed over five years, which the group can freely allocate. “It…
SVT paid a visit to the Teddy Bear Hospital at Hälsovetarbacken
STUDENT. On Monday, SVT was on site as the Teddy Bear hospital opened its reception in Hälsovetarbacken. One hundred preschool children brought stuffed animals to the KTC on Hälsovetarbacken to get them examined by doctors. It is an arrangement on initiative by the medical students themselves, as a way to get trained in interaction with children and to defuse the children’s beliefs about doctors and health care. Here you can…
GPCC Implement helps healthcare develop its person centered approach
COLLABORATION. A person centered approach makes care more effective and humane. Therefor, there is a major interest in health and social care in increasing person centered care. To support the change process with different heads, a non-profit company has been built. GPCC Implement. GPCC Implement is a so-called SVB company (NPO company), which means that the owner, GU Ventures AB, cannot withdraw any of the money from the company. Instead,…
New investigation advocates safer research careers
REPORT. By next year, all doctoral students with three years left should be employed by their institute of higher education. Credentialed employment should increase, as persons who fulfil previously set criteria will be given the right to become permanently hired. The proposal was put forward in a new investigation on career paths, equality and mobility. The proposal is good news for the National Junior Faculty (NJF) that is the umbrella…
Anders Palmquist receives the Jean Leray Award
AWRAD. Anders Palmquist, Associate Professor at the Department of Biomaterials at Sahlgrenska Academy, is this year’s recipient of the Jean Leray Award. The Jean Leray Award is the European Society for Biomaterials’ most prestigious award for young researchers established to recognize, encourage and stimulate outstanding research contributions to the field of biomaterials. “It is an enormous honor to have received the Jean Leray Award! It means a tremendous amount to…
Hub for Life Science in West Sweden to be strengthened
MEDICINAREBERGET. A large analysis work has been done since the end of the year of the plans that have been developed in the Vision 2020 – Medicinareberget project. The project now moves on to a new phase and proceeds with the plans that have shown to be the strongest, most sustainable and best established in the organisation. “The project gives the University of Gothenburg an opportunity to put focus on Life…
The University of Gothenburg continues to be one of the world’s best in odontology research
RANKING. The Institute of Odontology at the University of Gothenburg came in fifth in the overall rankings of odontology institutes of higher education in the world. However, scientifically, the institute ranked third in the world. “We are starting to get used to seeing us at the top of the list when the rankings appear. I can state that we have a stable position as one of the world’s leading institutes…
Ruth Palmer receives the Göran Gustafsson Prize
AWARD. As recently as last fall, Ruth Palmer and her colleagues were finally able to identify a protein that binds to the receptor of the ALK gene in humans – after 15 years of hard work. “Identifying the ligand for ALK was one of my major goals as a researcher, so it was really wonderful. The challenge now is to work with the clinical applications of the discovery,” says Professor…
Feminism, fairy tales and farce
STUDENT. Malice at the palace! Students with a flair for farce will be having fun with Cinderella, perhaps the most beloved of Grimm’s fairy tales, this year. In addition to a few feminist twists and turns, the audience can expect a joke or two at the expense of the local fish population. “We have adopted a contemporary setting, added some feministic flavoring, brought out the main character’s iron will, given…
Student Pernilla Rönntoft receives the Queen Silvia Nursing Award
STUDENT. For the first time, a student at the University of Gothenburg has been awarded the Queen Silvia Nursing Award. Pernilla Rönntoft, who is in the postgraduate program in specialist nursing for elderly care, will receive the award for an idea on how, by simple means, to raise the competence of personnel within elderly care. I notice that working with the elderly makes me feel good. As a nurse, I…
Medical student provides greater access to medical information on Wikipedia
STUDENT. Initially he used Wikipedia as an aid for his own studies, then he began to discover minor errors or formulas that he could clarify and improve. Now, medical student, Carl Fredrik Sjöland, is active in the comprehensive international translation project intended to make medical information accessible to people in developing countries. During the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, traditional media such as CNN, the BBC, or WHO was not…
Nursing in Gothenburg ranked 35th in the world
RANKING. When QS World University Rankings recently released their list of the world’s best universities within the field of Nursing, the University of Gothenburg was ranked 35th. Thus, nursing is the second field at Gothenburg to place in the top one hundred in the QS subject rankings. This is the first time that the world’s institutions of higher education are ranked in the category of Nursing. The list is topped…