EDUCATION. A new emergency preparedness course developed under the guidance of researchers at Sahlgrenska Academy is now spreading beyond Sweden. The training program is being implemented in Ukraine with support from the EU, and it has also been well received in the United States. Development of the training program has been led by Associate Professor Amir Khorram-Manesh at the Prehospital and Disaster Medicine Centre (PKMC) in Gothenburg, and has involved researchers…
Participate in a Joint Advanced Seminar – a PhD training event in Africa
The Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA) is a collaboration jointly led by the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC), Kenya, and the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), South Africa. Central to the training programme for CARTA fellows is a series of residential Joint Advanced Seminars (JAS), designed to enhance their skills and knowledge; guide and propel them through the research process; and provide a foundation for…
Gunnar Tobin: Leave internationalization out of it.
SCALED GRADING. Internationalization is being given too much weight in the discussion of whether it is a good idea to introduce scaled grading at Sahlgrenska Academy, according to Gunnar Tobin, Professor and International Director. In his column, he analyzes how universities in other countries use scaled grading, and concludes that the discussion should instead focus more on the conclusions from educational research regarding scaled grading in higher education. Whether all…
Pharmacy student praised for his Master’s thesis in the United States
STUDENT. Mikael Boberg, who is now graduating from the pharmacy program, was recently praised for his poster presentation at the ASPET annual meeting in San Diego. In addition, he received the ASPET Graduate Travel Award scholarship to present the results of his thesis at the Experimental Biology annual meeting, which is one of the world’s largest in life sciences. The thesis dealt with children’s ability to absorb, distribute, break down…
Paul Blanc will be this year’s honorary doctorate from Sahlgrenska Academy
APPOINTMENT. The Academy Board has decided to designate the world’s leading occupational medicine researcher Paul Blanc as an honorary doctorate. He received the appointment for his long and significant collaboration with Sahlgrenska Academy. Paul Blanc is a professor at the University of California in San Fransisco. He leads, among other things, a number of large epidemiological studies on how the respiratory system is affected by factors in the environment and the…