Knut Eirik Ringheim Eliassen
- E-mailknut.eliassen@uib.no
- Visitor AddressAlrek helseklynge, blokk D, Årstadveien 175009 Bergen
- Postal AddressPostboks 78045020 Bergen
General medicine / Family Medicine
The mentor scheme
Communication and consultation
Professional identity formation
Medical education research / Medical pedagogy
Infections / Tick-borne diseases
Antibiotic use / Antibiotic resistance / Antibiotic guidelines
Communication course for medical students
Video groups after clinical placements
PASKON (early patient contact)
The mentor scheme
Introduction to medical pedagogy (ELMED21A)
Medical educational practice (ELMED21B)
Infections in general practice
Clinical epidemiology
- (2024). Alienation in the Teaching Hospital: How Physician Non-Greeting Behaviour Impacts Medical Students' Learning and Professional Identity Formation. Perspectives on Medical Education. 239-249.
- (2023). Wanted: clinical supervisors! Sustainable student education in a general practice workforce crisis .
- (2023). The experience of meeting a medical student at the GP's office.
- (2023). The association between self-reported sleep problems, infection, and antibiotic use in patients in general practice. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 9 pages.
- (2023). Pasienters møte med medisinstudenter i fastlegerollen.
- (2023). Help! My doctor is a student - Workplace learning from the patients’ perspective.
- (2023). Fronesis: Medical workplace learning in general practice, a UiB research project.
- (2023). Flere praksisplasser og bedre veiledning for medisinerstudenter på fastlegekontorene - FRONESIS .
- (2023). Allmennlegen som veileder – dugnadstiden er forbi. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening.
- (2023). 2.1 Tretthet og slapphet. . In:
- (2023). Allmennmedisin. Gyldendal Akademisk.
- (2022). The association between insomnia, sleep duration and infections among patients in general practice.
- (2022). Studentundervisning, praksis og veiledning .
- (2022). Prevalence of insomnia and hypnotic use in Norwegian patients visiting their general practitioner. Family Practice. 352-359.
- (2022). Preparedness and management during the first phase of the COVID-19 outbreak - a survey among emergency primary care services in Norway. BMC Health Services Research. 10 pages.
- (2022). Legemiddelgjennomgang: Smågruppebasert forbedring i praksis. En kvalitativ studie blant norske fastleger. Utposten. 10-12.
- (2022). Fastlegeordningen dør. Dagsavisen.
- (2021). Tick-transmitted co-infections among erythema migrans patients in a general practice setting in Norway: a clinical and laboratory follow-up study. BMC Infectious Diseases. 9 pages.
- (2021). Consultations and antibiotic treatment for urinary tract infections in Norwegian primary care 2006–2015, a registry-based study. BMC Primary Care.
- (2021). Consultations and antibiotic treatment for urinary tract infections in Norwegian primary care 2006–2015, a registry-based study. BMC Family Practice. 1-12.
- (2021). Brev til Helseministeren i forbindelse med redningsaksjon for fastlegeordningen.
- (2018). Comparison of phenoxymethylpenicillin, amoxicillin, and doxycycline for erythema migrans in general practice. A randomized controlled trial with a 1-year follow-up. Clinical Microbiology and Infection (CMI). 1290-1296.
- (2017). Symptom load and general function among patients with erythema migrans: a prospective study with a 1-year follow-up after antibiotic treatment in Norwegian general practice. Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care. 75-83.
- (2017). Incidence and antibiotic treatment of erythema migrans in Norway 2005–2009. Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases. 1-8.
- (2013). Tick bites in healthy adults from western Norway: Occurrence, risk factors, and outcomes. Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases. 304-310.
- (2013). New guidelines for use of antibiotics in the primary health care service. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening.
- (2012). Flåttbåren sykdom i Norge. BestPractice Norge. 16-19.
- (2012). Erindringer om resistens- Et aktørseminar om antibiotikaresistensens historie. Michael Quarterly. 7-12.
- (2012). Antibiotikaresistens i Norge-aktørseminar 16.01.2008. Michael Quarterly. 13-79.
- (2012). Antibiotikabehandling av erythema migrans. .
- (2011). Lyme borreliose - nordens "tropesykdom". Bioingeniøren. 14-18.
More information in national current research information system (CRIStin)
More clinical placement sites and better supervision for medical students at GP offices (FRONESIS).
Available from: Flere praksisplasser og bedre veiledning for medisinstudenter på fastlegekontorene (FRONESIS) - Alrek (alrekhelseklynge.no)
PROFMED - Medical students' professional identity formation during hospital practice.
Available from: PROFMED - Medical students' professional identity formation during hospital practice | Enhet for læring | UiB
“The philosophical outpatient clinic” www.filosofiskpoliklinikk.no
“To greet or not to greet. The impact of social behavior on medical students' workplace learning. An interview study”. Interview study of fourth-year medical students during hospital practice in the medical and surgical department. A collaboration with E. Schei, B. Whelan and E. Valestrand.
Joint general medical research in Bergen – FAMFIB 2023: "Patient's experience of a medical student at the doctor's office".
With the research group for medical education, MedUt: Research in Medical Education | Section for General Practice | UiB
Joint general medical research in Bergen - FAMFIB 2020: "Sleep and infection in general practice".
With Bjørn Bjorvatn, Ingeborg Forthun and Knut Erik Emberland, Research Group SMIL: SMIL | Section for General Practice | UiB
Treatment and course of urinary tract infections in Norwegian general practice
Main supervisor for PhD candidate Lars Haugom, with ABINOR: ABINOR - Antibiotic use and infections in Norwegian primary care services 2006 – 2025 | Section for General Practice | UiB
COVID-19 outbreak in Norway - Epidemiology, health care utilization and primary care management (CONOPRI).
Co-supervisor for PhD candidate Jonas Dale. With NORCE: COVID-19 outbreak in Norway – Epidemiology, health care utilization and primary care management – CONOPRI - Norce (norceresearch.no)
"Academic contribution towards the GP crisis"
Initiator and leader of national collaboration between the four general practice university environments in Norway to contribute towards the GP crisis from an academic point of view. Summarized knowledge report on the importance of doctors in the primary healthcare service sent to former Minister of Health, Bent Høie in 2020 and updated with an invitation for collaboration to the new Minister of Health, Ingvild Kjerkol in 2021.
Eliassen, Knut Eirik Ringheim; Fosse, Anette; Risør, Torsten; Austad, Bjarne; Skjellegrind, Håvard; Owner, Torunn Bjerve; Mildestvedt, Thomas; Hetlevik, Øystein; Schei, Edwin. (2021): Letter to the Minister of Health in connection with the rescue operation for the GP scheme.
Available from: https://universityofbergen.sharepoint.com/:b:/s/TEAM_FAM/EY2Ig3SdtS5Hjg8Z4Ob7Om8Br-JhAImi5vdkYMHl4J9jIA?e=4bWmMn & https://www.dagsavisen.no/debatt/2022/05/16/fastlegeordningen-dor/