| Summary: | The title of my master thesis is: Medical studies at the University of Tromsø as an instrument for regional change in northern Norway. The starting point and framework of this study is the resolution of the founding of the University of Tromsø in 1968. Research literature explains this resolution as due to the growing national awareness of educational politics in the 1960, while at the same time the concept of district politics breaking through. The theoretical perspective of the study is regions and regionalization, the focus being the processes of regionalization of northern Norway. As the first class of medicine students enrolled at the University of Tromsø in 1973, they would follow a curriculum radically different in frame and purpose, from the courses in Oslo and Bergen. A new kind of medical study was to integrate natural sciences with clinical sciences, where students early on would experience patients through clinical rotations at local hospitals and general practitioners. I will connect this to the University of Tromsø’s greater purpose of regionally relevance, which implied active engagement in the difficulties of the province and being of use to the society of northern Norway. Investigation the time period 1961 to 1968, I aim to discover why regionally relevance was made an important objective of the university, and how the breakthrough of district politics was made visible through these processes. This has led me to explore whether there is a connection between the purpose of provincial relevance and the selected curriculum. The significance of the curriculum in relation to the purpose of provincial relevance was that it should motivate students to seek work in the districts’ health services. The establishment of a medicine school in Tromsø has been considered the most important mean of increasing the coverage of general practitioners in northern Norway. The choice of curriculum had also practical implications. The integrated curriculum demanded the close proximity of hospital units and teaching ...
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