Knut Eirik Ringheim Eliassen
Position
Associate Professor, General Practice
Affiliation
Research
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
Teaching
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
Publications
2025
- Knut Eirik Ringheim Eliassen (2025). How can we cultivate emotional intelligence among health care students?. (external link)
- Knut Eirik Ringheim Eliassen; Kristin Heggen; Monika Kvernenes et al. (2025). Medisinstudenter må lære å håndtere usikkerhet. (external link)
- Trygve Skonnord; Guro Haugen Fossum; Maria Romøren et al. (2025). The experience of meeting a medical student at the GP's office. (external link)
- Anna Victoria Flankegård; Julie Solberg Knutsen; Eivind Alexander Valestrand et al. (2025). How near-peer supervisors experience their own development in the supervisor role when shifting from written to oral interactive feedback: a qualitative interview study. (external link)
- Knut Eirik Ringheim Eliassen (2025). I'll Take It with Me When I Go. (external link)
2022
- Diman Barzigar; Nicolas Melchior Frederic Øyane; Knut Eirik Ringheim Eliassen (2022). Legemiddelgjennomgang: Smågruppebasert forbedring i praksis. En kvalitativ studie blant norske fastleger.. (external link)
- Ingeborg Forthun; Knut Eirik Ringheim Eliassen; Knut Erik Emberland et al. (2022). The association between insomnia, sleep duration and infections among patients in general practice. (external link)
- Knut Eirik Ringheim Eliassen (2022). Studentundervisning, praksis og veiledning. (external link)
2013
- Morten Lindbæk; Siri Jensen; Knut Eirik Eliassen et al. (2013). New guidelines for use of antibiotics in the primary health care service. (external link)
- Reidar Hjetland; Knut Eirik Eliassen; Morten Lindbæk et al. (2013). Tick bites in healthy adults from western Norway: Occurrence, risk factors, and outcomes. (external link)
2023
- Knut Eirik Ringheim Eliassen; Mette Brekke (2023). Allmennlegen som veileder – dugnadstiden er forbi. (external link)
- Trygve Skonnord; Julie Solberg Knutsen; Edvin Schei et al. (2023). The experience of meeting a medical student at the GP's office. (external link)
- Knut Eirik Ringheim Eliassen; Julie Solberg Knutsen; Gunnar Tschudi Bondevik et al. (2023). Flere praksisplasser og bedre veiledning for medisinerstudenter på fastlegekontorene - FRONESIS. (external link)
- Knut Eirik Ringheim Eliassen (2023). 2.1 Tretthet og slapphet. (external link)
- Knut Eirik Ringheim Eliassen; Trygve Skonnord; Julie Solberg Knutsen et al. (2023). Pasienters møte med medisinstudenter i fastlegerollen. (external link)
- Knut Eirik Ringheim Eliassen; Julie Solberg Knutsen; Gunnar Tschudi Bondevik et al. (2023). Fronesis: Medical workplace learning in general practice, a UiB research project. (external link)
2012
- Siri Jensen; Anne Kveim Lie; Knut Eirik Eliassen et al. (2012). Antibiotikaresistens i Norge-aktørseminar 16.01.2008. (external link)
- Knut Eirik Eliassen (2012). Flåttbåren sykdom i Norge. (external link)
- Ingvil von Mehren Sæterdal; Tove Ringerike; Ingrid Harboe et al. (2012). Antibiotikabehandling av erythema migrans. (external link)
- Siri Jensen; Anne Kveim Lie; Knut Eirik Eliassen et al. (2012). Erindringer om resistens- Et aktørseminar om antibiotikaresistensens historie. (external link)
2008
- Knut Eirik Eliassen; Morten Lindbæk; Dag Berlid et al. (2008). Førstevalgsbehandling for erythema migrans er fortsatt penicillin. (external link)
- Knut Eirik Eliassen (2008). Nye retningslinjer for antibiotika i allmennpraksis og sykehjem. (external link)
- Dag Berild; Knut Eirik Eliassen (2008). Sepsis A78 (del av kap 7.10). (external link)
- Knut Eirik Eliassen (2008). Nye retningslinjer for antibiotikabruk. (external link)
- Knut Eirik Eliassen; Dag Berild (2008). Borreliose (Lymes sykdom) S73, A78 (del av kap 7.10). (external link)
- Knut Eirik Eliassen (2008). Landeplage - Borrelia og Flått. (external link)
Projects
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/