IGS by the numbers 2016

To start …

• IGS is one of 5 Departments at MOF
• Approx. 200 employees
• 2017 budget is approx. 135 million
• about 60 million of this comes from external funding
• 14 research groups, 10 thematic groups, 4 Centres
• Core facility in Biostatistics and Data Analysis – BIOS
• Coordinator for a national infrastructure: Health Registries for Research

Research and Education Numbers …

• Total number original publications 2015: 336
• Number of level 2 publications 2015: 65
• 28 PhD Defences in 2016
• Around 130 PhD candidates registered at any one time
• Strongly involved in medical doctor training (including 2 of 12 semester leaders in the new medical studies plan)
• 59 successful Master degrees completed in 2016:
  • Master in Physiotherapy 8
  • Master in Nursing 4
  • Master in Genetic Counselling 1 (students begin every other year)
  • Master in Radiography/Bioengineering 6
  • Master in International Health 4
  • Master in Oral sciences 2
  • Master in Health Leadership 6
  • Master in Manual Therapy 21 (students begin every other year)
  • Master in Pharmacy (supervisors from IGS) 7

Research in 2016

• A new research strategy was developed 2016-2019
  • Including small changes in research group and research theme strategies
• Prizes to IGS researchers:
  • MOF’s prize for publication of the year (Ole Frithjof Norheim)
  • Top Quality prize from Helse Vest (Miriam Hartveit)
  • Bergen kommune’s prize for research and innovation (Kjell Krüger)
• Focus on external funding
  • Established seminars on application writing
  • approx 40 applications for external funding were sent, involving nearly 500 million kroner
  • building stronger contact with Bergen’s Research Foundation

Education in 2016

• 2 well-attended Departmental education seminars held
• IGS received MOF’s education prize for 2016!
• Working with
  • New study plan in medicien
  • Extensive re-organisation of the Master programme in Health Science
  • Researcher School – changes are being planned