Two heads are better than one. For this reason, among others, the medical degree programme’s employers, lecturers and the people that the whole thing is about – the students themselves – were invited to a workshop on 5-6 April 2017 to gather input for a vision for the medical degree programme at AU. This led to many interesting suggestions.

Lecturers at medicine have implemented video in their dermatology lectures. The small video tutorials make the lectures more dynamic and dialogue-based and build bridges between theory and practice.

If young research talents and the level of competitiveness are to be maintained and strengthened, then more profiles – also from abroad – need to apply for academic positions at Health. The faculty management team will therefore discuss how to specifically attract more international members of academic staff.

Yasser Ahmed Mahmoud defends his doctoral dissertation from the Department of Biomedicine at Aarhus University.

The scientific value of 9,479 brains from psychiatric patients admitted during the period 1945-1982 does not match the cost of moving and maintaining the collection for posterity. These are the grounds for shutting down the collection of brains which have been jointly maintained by the university and the region for many years.

For the next five years, Professor with special responsibilities (MSO) Hans Eiskjær from Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital will carry out research into heart transplantation and advanced treatment of heart failure.

An international research team led by Professor Jacob George of Storr Liver Centre in Sydney, Australia - with the participation of researchers from Aarhus University Hospital and Aarhus University - has mapped the human genetic properties affecting the degree of liver injury in patients with hepatitis C virus infection.

The first status check of the work on breaking down any barriers preventing women from having a career in research at the highest level at Health has now been carried out. There are still challenges, but there are also positive trends in the very preliminary findings.

The medical degree programme is facing a vision and strategy development process. But why is this necessary? Listen to what the initiator of the vision process, Charlotte Ringsted – who is Vice-dean for Education at Health – says about the thinking behind the project.