EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT. We now know who has been awarded educational ALF grants for the 2023–2024 medical program and educational ALF grants for health professions in 2023. One of the funded projects will be part of Torben Nordahl Amorøe’s upcoming dissertation, with Paulin Andréll as his main supervisor. The project will receive SEK 500,000 of the announced educational ALF grants. ALF refers to the agreement concerning medical education and research. Amorøe’s…
Nearly SEK 6 million from the Swedish Research Council for research on surgical training
EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT. Gothenburg has the only training environment in Sweden that offers specialist courses for surgeons where skills are practiced using donated corpses. The Surgical Anatomical Training Center (KAT) is run in collaboration with Sahlgrenska Academy and Sahlgrenska University Hospital. Thanks to a major contribution from the Swedish Research Council, an interdisciplinary research project can now begin about this skills training. For laparoscopic surgery, surgeons have long been able to…
Ready to take advantage of the spring’s experience from online teaching
DIGITALIZATION. This autumn, the REDO group will continue discussing ways of solving various problems from distance education and support efforts to digitize teaching for the faculty’s teachers. Towards the end of the year, the group will also present a report on lessons learned from the pandemic and working methods Sahlgrenska Academy can use in the future. REDO is the Swedish word for ready and is the short name for the…
Nominate for Sahlgrenska Academy’s Educational Award 2020 – extended deadline until Oct 31
NOMINATE. Do you know of teachers who have developed and implemented a successful and innovative educational idea in teaching? Or one or more teachers who, for many years, have performed an extremely appreciated and successful teaching job? Then it is time to nominate them for Sahlgrenska Academy’s Educational Award. Here you can read the Dean’s decision to announce Sahlgrenska Academy’s Educational Award 2020 (Swedish only): https://gubox.box.com/s/ra9jw180hsoo9q51ffmacxbrsy8atykj Nominations with detailed justifications…
Recognized for global classroom in the nursing program
INTERNATIONALIZATION. Ewa-Lena Bratt, Louise Freytag and Camilla Eide, coordinators for the Nursing Care in Complex Care Situations course in the nursing program at Sahlgrenska Academy, have been named the recipients of the 2019 Prize for Internationalization of first and second-cycle education at the Sweden’s medical faculties. The course, now taught entirely in English, is offered each semester. The Nursing Care in Complex Care Situations course (7.5 credits) is offered in…