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…
A global doctoral candidate represents GU in Stockholm
PEOPLE. Meet Laith Hussain-Alkhateeb, a doctoral candidate in global public health, who will soon represent the University of Gothenburg at this year’s awards ceremony for Global Swede in Stockholm. Laith Hussain-Alkhateeb will soon be finished with his postgraduate studies. On the same day that I met him in Occupational and Environmental Medicine, he had just been notified of when he will defend his dissertation: in mid-March of next year. Now…
Soon the Sahlgrenska Visiting Professorship will be open for applications
INTERNATIONALIZATION. The Sahlgrenska Academy’s Guest Professorship Program – Sahlgrenska Visiting Professorship – is now about to start. The program can provide co-financing when recruiting guest professors for at a tenure of at least one year and at most three years. The aim of the Guest Professor Program is to stimulate a high quality of international exchange. Sahlgrenska Visiting Professorship is a five-year strategic investment involving the advertising and appointment of…
Newly arrived physicians bring diversity to Swedish healthcare
TRAINING. A decision was recently reached to provide introductory training for recently immigrated physicians holding degrees outside of EU/ECC. The course is part of an attempt to help recent immigrants become registered physicians, using earmarked funds from the government. After 10 weeks, 19 participants have now completed the training and it is hoped that they will also pass the much-debated knowledge test in the spring. The course is a partnership…