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MED-nytt, no 5 – 2024

Don’t forget to work on the FRIPRO application. International Women’s Day.

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Editorial: Happy International Women’s Day!Dekan Hanne Flinstad Harbo

On Friday, there will be a big celebration of International Women’s Day taking place at MED, with important topics on the agenda.

Welcome to lunch with a focus on abortion and democracy in Domus Bibliotheca at 12:00: Abortion rights under attack: Democracy without the right to decide over one’s own body? 
(in Norwegian)

The Centre for Global Health invites people to Domus Bibliotheca at 14:00 to celebrate two extraordinary women at the event: Global Health: Why does the world need more people like Sigrun and Gro? (in Norwegian). Watch the stream if you don’t get a seat!

On the occasion of International Women’s Day, Marianne Natvig has written the post What is the menopause? in Norwegian for us on the Medisinbloggen; a topic that has been taboo for far too long.

Read the dean’s full editorial

The Management Column

What happened to FRIPRO?

Pro-Dean for Research and Innovation Jan Bj?lie explains the changes regarding applications for FRIPRO announcements. He encourages anyone thinking about applying to seize the opportunity and get help from the faculty’s skilled research advisors. Deadline 22 April.

Read the full post in the Management Column

Studies

Can examinations be shorter and better?Stefan Schauber

Associate Professor Stefan Schauber’s work involves examination quality, and he believes it must be possible to challenge the current practice of having around 100 examinations questions in the professional study programme in medicine.

Read the entire post in Norwegian under About Research from IMB

News from MED

Get help with your FRIPRO application!illustrasjon finansiering fra ekstern kilde

The Research Council of Norway’s new rolling application deadline requires better preparation of the application before submission. You risk 2 years of quarantine if your application does not meet the grade. Faculty advisors can help you with your FRIPRO application. Sign up for support as soon as possible and submit your draft by 22 April.

Read the full post on the internal pages.

Briefings

Management meetings

Lederforum: Overview of meeting dates. The next meeting is on Tuesday 19 March. Agenda items and documents must be submitted by 12:00 on the last Thursday before the meeting. Minutes of the previous meeting can be found here (in Norwegian).

Overview of faculty board meetings and IDF meetings in 2024 (PDF in Norwegian) with deadlines for submitting matters. The next faculty board meeting will be held on 12 March. Agendas and protocols will be updated here (in Norwegian).

University Board meetings in 2024. The meetings are live streamed and open to anyone who would like to attend. The next meeting will take place on 12 March. See also agendas and minutes from the first meeting of the year on 6 February.

Opportunities and deadlines

Courses and events

See the University of Oslo’s course calendar for an overview of all available courses. See also updated overviews of courses from UiO:IT and the Medical and Science Library

About Resarch

You can also follow what is happening at the Faculty of Medicine via facebookLinkedIn and Instagram.
 

Leende kvinnerMedisinbloggen: What is the menopause? in Norwegian by Marianne Natvig. No one comes to inform us about the menopause. No public health nurse shows up at the joint meeting at work and says that today everyone is going to find out what happens in this phase of life. Maybe it won’t be that bad. It is not a disease.
 

Lorena Arranz p? labenKlinmed: FRIPRO funding to research the early stages of blood cancerLorena Arranz has been awarded NOK 12 million from the Research Council of Norway to find out more about what happens during the early stages of development in blood cancer diseases.

 

illustrasjon zoom-m?teHelsam/ forskning.no: The pandemic changed the role of the municipal doctor. In the CovidNor project, doctoral research fellow Silje Rebekka Heltveit-Olsen (UiO) has researched pandemic preparedness among municipal doctors. She finds that the Covid 19 pandemic revealed a need for more formalised tasks and role performance for municipal doctors.

 

IMB: Conflicting theories of consciousness may fit together after all. Professor Emeritus Johan Frederik Storm has led the work on an article that is attracting attention. The goal has been a new approach to understanding how our awareness works.

 

illustrasjon lever og galle - tegningKlinmed: New knowledge about the serious liver disease PSC (link in Norwegian.) There are many things we don’t know about PSC. New research gives us another piece in the scientific puzzle.

 

 

illustrasjon tarmbakterier: pasient med magesmerterMedisinbloggen: Intestinal bacteria reveal the risk of serious illness in Norwegian by Simen Hyll Hansen. Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis affect almost 40,000 people in Norway. Some people get so sick that their bowel needs to be removed. By examining patients’ intestinal flora, we can see who is at risk of getting worse.

 

Illustrasjon av psykis syk person som sitter ser ned Klinmed: The hidden health crisis in Norwegian prisons. The proportion of inmates in Norwegian prisons with both substance abuse disorders and mental disorders is increasing. This worries Norwegian researchers. They are now calling for a more targeted and holistic approach to prisoner health.

 

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By Silje M. Kile Rosseland
Published Mar. 8, 2024 12:11 PM - Last modified Mar. 26, 2024 2:16 PM