Olaf Gjerløw Aasland

30.03.2020: There has been a prolonged focus on under-recruitment to general practice (1–7). In an evaluation undertaken in 2016 (8, 9), one in every four foundation doctors reported wanting to enter general practice. The need for new general practitioners (GPs), however, far exceeds this supply (2). Previous...

21.08.2017: The shortage of doctors in rural communities still presents a challenge nationally (1) and internationally (2–4). When the Storting resolved in 1968 to build the University of Tromsø (from 2013 the University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway), the plans to offer medical studies in North...

25.10.2016: Many requirements and expectations are associated with the tasks that a doctor shall perform, the means to be used to solve them and the role that doctors should assume when encountering stakeholders. Many different actors have opinions about what makes for a good doctor (1). What do the doctors...

25.10.2016: The doctors claim that in order to learn, practise and update themselves in their profession, theoretically as well as in terms of the craft, willingness with regard to a high degree of attendance in the workplace and high work capacity are required (1). In a previous article we have referred to...

13.09.2016: A number of articles have described the working hours of doctors and how doctors split their time between their various tasks. A doctor’s working hours will affect the quality of treatment provided as well as patient safety and the doctor’s own health (1). It has been demonstrated that an increase...

23.02.2016: The health condition and health-related behaviour of doctors are important preconditions for optimal treatment of patients, as well as of importance to the doctors themselves (1) –  (3). Doctors are less absent due to illness than other professions, and seek treatment more rarely (3, 4). Based on...

25.06.2013: «Every day do some reading or work apart from your profession.» These words from Sir William Osler (1849 – 1919) have served as an inspiration for many generations of doctors (1). Partly, this is a matter of relaxation from a strenuous working day (in extent as well as in nature) as a doctor, and...

25.06.2013: Modern health services make several, and sometimes conflicting, demands on doctors. Ethical problems and moral distress come to the fore when a person has a clear perception of what it is morally correct to do but is prevented from acting in line with this ideal (1, 2). Moral distress can also occur...