Our most important overarching goals
The Faculty of Medicine shall be an attractive place to work and study
- Students and staff have a good, safe and inclusive working and learning environment
- Staff have good and predictable career paths
- The faculty has clear and competent leaders at all levels
- The administration has good tools and routines, and delivers effective services to students and staff
The Faculty of Medicine shall develop in interaction with society, nationally and internationally
- The faculty has a clear strategic direction, anchored in the needs of society
- The faculty has a strong and visible international engagement, with increased mobility for students and staff
- The academic communities at UiO, the hospitals and other partners have close and committed collaboration
- The faculty is a leading environment for knowledge preparedness in health
The Faculty of Medicine shall provide outstanding health education for a sustainable society
- The study programmes are relevant to society and of high quality
- Good teaching is valued and rewarded through merit
- The faculty has more student places in medicine, and educates doctors both in Oslo and at Campus Sør, Campus Innlandet and Campus Ahus
- The nutrition programme has good recruitment and completion
- Bachelor's and master's programmes meet society's need for interdisciplinary knowledge about health and the health service
- The faculty offers sought-after and flexible continuing and further education programmes
The Faculty of Medicine shall facilitate innovation and outstanding and groundbreaking research
- Research-track students, PhD candidates and postdoctoral fellows receive good research training and have good career paths
- Research ethics and research integrity are a central part of research training
- The research support offered to researchers makes it easier to succeed - both in securing external funding and in carrying out projects.
- Researchers and UiO Growth House collaborate on more innovation projects, with internal and external partners
- Researchers have access to the necessary high-quality research infrastructure
Measures to achieve the goals
The Faculty of Medicine shall be an attractive place to work and study
To ensure that students and staff have a good, safe and inclusive working and learning environment, we will:
- Introduce training for students in learning environment and the student representative system
- Make the «Si fra» (Speak Up) reporting system better known
- Follow up findings from working and learning environment surveys with concrete measures
- Provide good meeting places and build community across study programmes and academic communities
- Ensure that students and staff have good premises in which to work and study
We will offer staff good and predictable career paths through:
- Career guidance, especially for younger staff
- Collaboration with the health service and the BOTT universities on good frameworks for clinical-academic careers
- Development of clear career and competence pathways for technical and administrative staff
The faculty needs clear and competent leaders at all levels, and we will:
- Facilitate leadership development for leaders at all levels
- Actively use the leadership training offered by UiO and Universities Norway (UHR)
- Ensure good recruitment, training and transfer of experience during leadership transitions
- Encourage good collaboration across units and levels
To enable the administration to deliver effective services to students and staff, we will:
- Facilitate competence development for administrative staff
- Simplify and automate administrative work processes
- Make points of contact more visible for students and staff
The Faculty of Medicine shall develop in interaction with society, nationally and internationally
To ensure that the work at the faculty has a clear strategic direction with clear goals and measures, we will:
- Develop and anchor an updated faculty strategy
- Set annual priorities and define measurable indicators
- Ensure that the faculty takes part in relevant arenas in society and working life, including representation on relevant boards, councils and committees
The faculty shall have a strong and visible international engagement, with increased mobility, and we will:
- Enter into new agreements with relevant institutions for exchange and encourage international mobility
- Encourage international research collaboration
- Take an active part in relevant international university forums, such as The Guild Health Deans
- Support and encourage our academics to communicate on current topics
The faculty has close and committed collaboration with other academic communities at UiO, in the hospitals and with other partners, and we wish to:
- Establish and further develop cross-faculty initiatives and convergence environments
- Strengthen the use of combined positions and shared roles
- Develop the faculty's portfolio of agreements with partners in line with changing needs
The faculty has taken clear leadership and established our role as a leading academic community for knowledge preparedness in health, and we will intensify this engagement through:
- A «Competence Group for Emergency Preparedness» at the faculty that systematically maps the competence and knowledge that society needs access to during crises and disasters
- Make the faculty's capacities visible to the authorities and take part in relevant forums
The Faculty of Medicine shall provide outstanding health education for a sustainable society
The study programmes shall be of high quality and relevant to the needs of society, and we will:
- Further develop national and international collaboration on teaching quality
- Ensure good training and onboarding so that teachers quickly settle in and master their role
- Provide targeted pedagogical training for clinical teachers and practice supervisors
- Further develop the role of Section for Health Sciences Education (HELP) in developing the study programmes
Good teaching shall be valued and rewarded through merit, and we will:
- Emphasise the importance of teaching in relevant processes and forums
- Continue the teaching award
- Give weight to teaching in appointments and promotions
The faculty wants more student places in medicine, and will educate doctors both in Oslo and at Campus sør, Campus Innlandet and Campus Ahus:
- Work for more student places in medicine with Ahus as a campus
- Further develop Campus sør
- Establish and launch Campus Innlandet
To achieve better recruitment and higher completion in the nutrition programme, we will:
- Create a stronger sense of belonging to the programme for students by decoupling it from the medical programme
- Adapt the admission requirements to the actual needs for completing the programme
- Clarify the programme's career opportunities and societal relevance
Bachelor's and master's programmes shall meet society's need for interdisciplinary knowledge about health and the health service, and we will:
- Implement an annual cycle for study quality and portfolio development
- Work on long-term plans for portfolio development
The faculty shall offer sought-after and flexible continuing and further education programmes, and we will:
- Collaborate with the central UiO administration to simplify the administrative routines related to continuing and further education
- Collaborate with external actors to develop relevant programmes
The Faculty of Medicine shall facilitate innovation and outstanding and groundbreaking research
To offer our research-track students, PhD candidates and postdoctoral fellows good research training and good career paths, we will:
- Further develop the research track (forskerlinjen), or alternatives to it, to give young medical professionals the opportunity to start a research career early, with particular emphasis on:
- Funding schemes for research-track students
- Arrangements for research-track students to complete a PhD degree
- The academic orientation and content of the research track
- Renew courses for the PhD programme by evaluating the course portfolio and offering relevant training
- Offer relevant courses for postdoctoral fellows
- Offer good training and courses for supervisors in the PhD programme
Research ethics and research integrity shall be a central part of research training, and we will:
- Ensure that researchers receive good training and courses
- Ensure that our leaders have good and relevant competence
- Inform about and discuss topics on research ethics and research integrity in internal and external forums
To ensure that the research support offered to researchers makes it easier to succeed both in obtaining external funding and in carrying out research projects, we will:
- Evaluate the research support services at the faculty
- Clarify which services are included in research support, their scope and the division of responsibility between the different levels of the organisation
We will promote a culture of innovation among our researchers by:
- Supporting researchers and Veksthuset for value creation in the work to establish more innovation projects
- Making innovation and value creation visible and rewarding them
- Identifying new opportunities for collaboration in innovation and research
Researchers shall have access to the necessary high-quality research infrastructure, and we will:
- Make the infrastructure available across academic communities and ensure it is used in the best possible way, including through core facilities
- Establish sustainable operating and funding models
August 3rd 2026, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo
Hanne Flinstad Harbo, Jan G Bjålie, Magnus Løberg, Eli Feiring og Grete Dyb