EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT. Five educational development projects will now be implemented with funds from the Swedish Council for Education. One of the projects brings together training of nurses and dental hygienists, in which future nurses receive specialized training in oral health and future dental hygienists receive information and instruction about oral care. For 2019 the Council for Education has decided to distribute a total of SEK 450,000 to fund educational development.…
The foundation is being laid here for learning environments of the future
THE FUTURE OF MEDICINAREBERGET. In 20 years – how have the circumstances for learning changed and what teaching premises and other learning environments will be needed at Sahlgrenska Academy? Akademiliv visited the last of three workshops in which teachers and students tried to provide answers that will lead to a premises program for teaching in the future. The workshops were conducted in order to create a basis for future efforts…
Teaching prize awarded – see Susannah Leach present the virtual laboratory session
AWARD. Susannah Leach, this year’s winner of Sahlgrenska Academy’s teaching prize has now officially received her reward. The prize was awarded by Vice Dean Silvana Naredi on Tuesday, 5 September, in connection with the meeting of the Education Council. During the meeting, several projects were presented that are conducted with support from teaching project funding at Sahlgrenska Academy. “This is a real high point during the year for us…
Want to Become an Excellent Teacher? Time to Start Preparing!
PEDAGOGICAL ACADEMY. The next call for applications for the title of Excellent Teacher opens on April 1. If you are thinking of applying, we recommend that you start reviewing your teaching portfolio and preparing your “reflections”, which forms an important part of the application. At Sahlgrenska Academy, it is the Docentship Committee that prepares and vets applications for the title of Excellent Teacher. Gunnar Tobin was awarded the title himself…
Medical Students Engineer Vaccine in Virtual Lab Experiment
EDUCATION. Thanks to a modern addition to the curriculum, fifth-semester medical students now learn about immunology by performing a virtual experiment on imaginary mice. The aim is to develop a new flu vaccine. The lab work is a new educational exercise developed by Susannah Leach during her time as a graduate student working within the university’s Basic Medicine Program. A soft murmuring fills the computer lab as students work in…