Welcome to the Faculty of Health Sciences

 Research at the Faculty of Health Sciences

The Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) is the medical faculty of Linkoping University, one of Sweden’s six largest universities, founded in 1986. The faculty engages in a broad range of scientific activities ranging from basic biomedical and experimental clinical research to applied clinical studies and research within the fields of nursing, physiotherapy, speech and language pathology, occupational therapy, medical pedagogy, and public health. 
 

sEE a movie about the Faculty of Health Sciences

Close links between basic and applied research teams facilitate interdisciplinary and translational research; crossing the boundaries between traditional disciplines and university departments is a hallmark of FHS. This collaboration is facilitated in part by the fact that the main campus of FHS has been built up around Linköping University Hospital as its center and in part by close collaboration between the FHS and the counties of the southeast region of Sweden. 

The interfaculty collaboration is evident in many of the research project areas underway and in the presence of centers of interdisciplinary research schools such as the Graduate School of Health Care and Society (together with the Faculty of Arts & Sciences and Institute of Technology), and Forum Scientum, a research school encompassing biomedicine, natural sciences and engineering. Of the total number of 400 Ph.D. students at FHS, over 50 are granted their Ph.D. annually. The research strategy of FHS is to further stimulate research groups which are successful in obtaining external funding, and regularly about 60 of the faculty receive substantial grants from highly ranked national and international funding organizations.

About the Faculty of Health Sciences

The Faculty of Health Sciences is a faculty within Linköping University. Here you can find undergraduate programmes for health and social care. The Faculty also offers an opportunity to study a medical scientific programme in medical biology. The Faculty of Health Sciences is situated in Linköping and Norrköping

The Dean speaks

The Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS; in Swedish: Hälsouniversitetet, HU) is the medical faculty of Linköping University. We have devoted considerable energy toward creating a pedagogically sound basic program of instruction. Examples of the results of our concentration on pedagogy include training the student to be able to cooperate with others and to better understand his or her professional role e.g. by means of development of the world’s first student-led educational department, and to be able to communicate well with patients in front of a video camera.

Particular attention has been given to asking the students to set their own goals when they begin clinical work and to provide improved supervision of that work. These goals are to be set forth by the student her- or himself in a document thus requiring the student to reflect in advance on the nature of student-patient interaction and to view this period not only as the first clinical training but also as a field study of this activity. The clinical training is performed in close cooperation with the county councils within the southeast region of Sweden and with the Örebro region. Much effort has been devoted to education of the clinical supervisors in order to create high quality clinical rotations. The implementation of Problem Based Learning (PBL) as a motivational and developmental aid to the students in all of our programs has been positively received throughout Sweden and Scandinavia. This has influenced many others to follow our lead.
 

• Approximately 2500 students of whom 500 are students in Norrköping
• Approximately 50 doctorates each year of whom 50% are women
• 70 professors of whom 13 are women
• 7 undergraduate programmes
• Among 50 exchange universities in 25 countries

Contact

Mailing address
Hälsouniversitetet
Kansliet
581 83 Linköping

Telephone
Linköping: 013-222000
Norrköping: 011-363000