STUDENTS. It was supposed to be an ordinary thesis project, but it came to mean much more. After seven weeks in Uganda, the students have developed both personally and in their future professional roles. Now they are encouraging other medical students to choose to specialize in global health and to take advantage of the chance to go abroad. “The other day, I was about to throw away a t-shirt that…
New students in public health science and global health mingled
EDUCATION. The autumn semester has gotten started and the students are back at Sahlgrenska Academy. Akademiliv was on hand this Thursday when new students were welcomed to the Public Health Science Program with Health Economics and the two international master’s programs, the Master’s Program in Global Health and the Master’s Program in Public Health Science with Health Economics. [See more pictures from this welcome mixer further down] Muwada Bashir, Ginika Uwakwe…
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…
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…