Martin Håtuft Solberg

Field of work

I work as an assistant professor in nursing at HVL, with special responsibility for teaching and guidance in mental health and substance abuse. The subject area engages me because it combines clinical complexity, relational work and a strong ethical dimension, and because it provides great opportunities to strengthen students' professional confidence in encounters with vulnerable patients.

I am passionate about developing learning methods that challenge, engage and make students more active and reflective. In teaching, I largely use student-active methods where the students have to retrieve information, analyze and reflect on complex situations. Here I like to use VR, AI and simulation as educational tools to promote ethical competence, clinical judgement and deeper understanding. This includes projects that investigate how VR can support reflection and strengthen nursing professional competence, as well as work to increase AI readiness among students and teachers through research, mapping and international collaboration.

I am involved in several development and research projects at HVL, between others:

• AI readiness in health education, with the use of tools such as MAIRS-MS and the development of an EIGE assessment tool for health workers.

• VR and simulation, where we explore the course VR and simulation methodology, can strengthen learning outcomes in psychiatry, especially related to de-escalation and ethical awareness.

• Digital health, literacy and competence development, in collaboration with both national and international partners.

• Erasmus+, where we collaborate with several countries to further develop expertise in the use of artificial intelligence in health and technology subjects.

I am particularly interested in the connection between digital health literacy, AI literacy and the competence needs of the future in health services. It is important to me that the students do not just learn about technology, but learn with and in the encounter with technology in a way that strengthens clinical judgement, ethics and understanding of the patient's situation.

In addition, I have a strong commitment to children and young people's mental health, something that characterizes both my clinical background and the pedagogical perspectives I bring into the teaching.

Through teaching, research and development work, I want to contribute to a learning environment that is exploratory, inclusive and future-oriented, and that equips students for a rapidly changing health and welfare sector.