Per Stensland, Associate Professor, Section for General Practice

I have been a general practitioner since 1977, staying and working in Sogndal, north of Bergen. I am also holding a part time job as Associate Professor at the University of Bergen. My field of research is clinical communication. I am also engaged in developing teaching and research in rural medicine.
	Per Steinar Stensland, born: 19 09 49 in Oslo Married, 3 children Private: Klippavegen 12, 6856 Sogndal Job: Sogndal Health Centre, Box 224, 6852 Sogndal Per.Stensland@isf.uib.no

Education

1974	Cand. med. Oslo
1985	Specialist of General Practice
1984	Specialist of Public Health
2003	Medical doctoral dissertation Bergen/Norway (PhD/Dr. Med. Sci.)

Clinical practice

1976-77	Assistant doctor Åkershagan Sentralhjem for mentally retarded.
1977-81	Public Health Officer / GP in Hadsel.
1981-00	Public Health Officer / GP in Sogndal
1987-89	Senior District Medical Officer, Kweneng District, Botswana.
2000-	GP in Sogndal, Head of Sogndal Health Centre

Academic practice

1984	Research assistant, Dept of General Practice, University of Bergen.
1986-99	Teacher, student tutor, Dept of General Practice, University of Bergen.
1999-	Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer, Dept of General Practice, University of Bergen
2005 -	Advisor, National Centre of Rural Medicine, University of Tromsø.
2006-	Leader. The Research Fund, National Centre of Rural Medicine, UiTø.

Networking

1993-99	Member of the Board of The Norwegian College of General Practitioners.
1998-2004	Chairman of International Committee, The Norwegian College of General Practitioners.

Publications

• Stensland P. Enkel forbedring av epilepsibehandling ved et sentralhjem for psykisk utviklingshemmede. Tidsskr Nor Lægefor 1982;102:228-30. (Epilepsy treatment in mentally retarded)
• Haugen L, Stensland P. Vi er alle brikker i vårt eget spill. Systemteori i allmennmedisin. Utposten 1985;14:31-6. (Systems theory in general practice)
• Stensland P. Allmennpraktikeren og familien med det kronisk syke barnet. Tidsskr Nor Lægefor 1987;22:777-80. (The GP and the family with the child suffering from chronic disease)
• Stensland P. Remote Area Dwellers (RADs) in Central Kalahari Game Reserve, Report from Survey on Health and Health Service 1987-88. NORAD 1990, Rapport. 27 sider.
• Stensland P. Tuberculosis and poverty in rural Botswana 1987-88. Botshelo - Journal of Botswana Medical and Dental Assosiation - Botshelo, 1992;19:27-30.
• Stensland P. Tb-ward Study in Scottish-Livingstone Hospital, November 1997 - May 1988. Molepolole: Regional Health Team, 1988.
• Stensland P, Malterud K. New gateways to dialogue in general practice. Development of a symptom diary to expand communication. Scand J Prim Health Care 1997;15:175-9.
• Stensland P, Malterud K. Approaching the locked dialogues of the body. Communicating symptoms through illness diaries. Scand J Prim Health Care 1999;17: 75-80.
• Stensland, P. Poverty in Norwegian General Practice. Paper at workshop at EuroWonca-Congress 2000, Wien: Tackling Health Inequalities - the Role of General Practice
• Stensland P. What is good General Practice. Interview with Peter Toon. Tidsskr Nor Lægeforen 2000; 26:3208-9.
• Stensland P. Teknifiserer vi den pasientsentrerte metode? Månedskrift for praktisk lægegjerning 2001; 5: 543-58. (Are we instrumentalizing the patient centered clinical method?)
• Stensland P, Malterud K. Uravelling empowering internal voices - A case study on the interactive use of illness diaries. Family Practice 2001;18:425-9.
• Stensland P. Communicating illness experience. I Malterud K, Hunskår S (red). Chronic myofascial pain. A patient-centered approach. Abingdon, Radcliffe Medical Press Ltd 2002.
• Stensland P. Modifying the frame of patient-physician interaction, exemplified by writing an illness diary. I Malterud K, Hunskår S (red). Chronic myofascial pain. A patient-centered approach. Abingdon, Radcliffe Medical Press Ltd 2002.
• Stensland P. Action research on own practice - methodological challenges. Scand J Prim Health Care 2003; 21: 77-82.
• Stensland P. Approaching the locked dialogues of the body. Communicating symptoms through illness diaries. Thesis. Bergen: Institutt for samfunnsmedisinske fag. Universitetet i Bergen, 2003.
• Stensland P, Heian F, Haga OS, Garløv I. Barn og barndom. (The Child) I Hunskår S (red). Allmennmedisin. (General Practice.) Oslo, Gyldendal 2003. Pp 692-704.
• Malterud K, Nessa J, Stensland P, Thesen J. Legekunst i praksis. Kommunikasjon lege-pasient. (The art of doctoring. Clinical communication.) Oslo, Universitetsforlaget 2006.
• Øien AM, Iversen S, Stensland P. Narratives of embodied experiences - Therapy processes in Norwegian psychomotor physiotherapy. Advances in Physiotherapy 2007;9: 31-9.

Reviewer

• Tidsskriftet - The Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association
• Ugeskrift for Læger - The Journal of the Danish Medical Association
• Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care
• Family Practice
• Qualitative Health Research

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