Campus Øya and St. Olav's hospital

As roughly half of my semester here is already over, it's about time you get to see where and how I am studying:
The medical campus is integrated into the clinical complex of St. Olav's hospital, and education and research are tightly knit together with the clinic. I have lectures on Monday, Tuesday and Friday; Wednesdays and Thursdays are reserved for the clinical courses called "uketjeneste" (week service) and for PBL (problem-based learning) sessions. What I particularly enjoy is the amount of patient contact and the small groups: quite often we end up as two students together with one doctor examining various patients. As an exchange student I have been assigned a "student assistant" - a fellow student from my course group (coincidentally he's also called Alex and he's really a nice guy) who's job it is to help me whenever I need it and to translate for me if I can't understand the patients. Luckily for him I am already fairly good at "norsk" and only have difficulties in understanding strong dialects. Tusen takk for hjelpen din, Alex! :)
The following pictures should give you a rough image of the campus + clinic:

1.: locker/changing rooms in the basement of Laboratoriesenteret; 2.: lockers where we get fresh clothing

3. + 4.: MTFS (medisinik teknisk forskningssenteret); 5.: Kvinne-barn-senteret


6.: parts of the two buildings of Nevrosenteret; 7.: Laboratoriesenteret; 8.: 1902-bygget


9.: the big building which is being torn down to make room for something more modern; 10.: a map of the clinical complex; 11.: the A&E department at the back with the helipad

the back riverside-part of the clinic