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Panel 11 – medicine | health sciences
develop and contribute to specific teaching programmes related to
their research and provide evidence of where this is happening, such as
within their problem-based learning, which is itself a research-informed
approach to teaching and learning. Furthermore, we recommend that
the relationship between teaching and research will be strengthened by
encouraging researchers and especially PhD students to do more teaching
and stimulating more lecturers to become research active.
We rate the relation between research activity and teaching as good.
6. Evaluation of future plans
and potentials and possibilities
The philosophy, visions, strategy and criteria for setting priorities for
the future development of the department are based on the values of
Lund Unversity and on the recent documents prepared by the medical
faculty (The future of the Faculty of Medicine Strategic Plan 2007–2011,
and The Way Forward – Staff strategy for the Faculty of Medicine
2007–2012).
These documents provide good starting points for planning work at the
department level. The plans for the future focus on the continuation
and extension of work in the different research areas and on the increase
of research to support the established education programmes described
indicating increasing diversity in the already existing multidirectional,
multiprofessional and multidisciplinary structure and approach.
The plans reflect contemporary problems as starting points regarding,
for example, the need to develop evidence base for policy, care, health
promotion and science to support optimal health and wellbeing, create
additional centres of excellence, apply multiple research methdologies and
in particular focus more on interventions and use of RTCs, and increase
resources through extensive collaboration nationally and internationally.
From the Panel´s viewpoint the strategic planning and visions for the
future are in general feasible and oriented towards the right directions..
The Panel is, however, concerned about the lack of information on
strategies and criteria regarding decision making on research priorities
and selecting themes for new research initiatives.
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