INTERNATIONALIZATION. During the week Gothenburg was visited by a delegation from the Japan’s Kyushu University for discussions about how collaboration between our universities can be extended. In connection with the visit, a letter of intent for future collaboration was signed by Masato Wakayama, vice president of Kyushu University, and Agneta Holmäng, dean of Sahlgrenska Academy. Kyushu University has had a well-functioning collaboration with Chalmers University of Technology and the University…
Prize for internationalization in teaching and learning – nomination period opens Feb 1
INTERNATIONALIZATION. Sweden’s medical faculties have set up a joint prize for the internationalization of first and second-cycle education in order to encourage their teachers and teaching teams to actively promote an international approach to teaching. The announcement will open on February 1, with the last nomination date on March 15, 2018. The prize is awarded to a teacher or a teaching team that has made the most effective contribution to raising…
Medical students return from Uganda with powerful impressions
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…