Course Clinical Research

ECTS: 1

Course leader: Morten Bøttcher

Language: English

Graduate school: Faculty of Health

Graduate program: ClinFO

Course fee: 1,200.00 DKK

Status: Course is finished

Semester: Spring 2023

Application deadline: 28/02/2023

Cancellation deadline: 14/03/2023

Course type: Classroom teaching

Start date: 28/03/2023

Administrator: Thilde Møller Risgaard

The course C151/13 Clinical Research is being offered by the Graduate School of Health, Aarhus University, spring 2023.

Criteria for participation: University degree in medicine, dentistry, nursing, or master’s degree in other fields and/or postgraduate research fellows (PhD students and research-year medical students).

Aim: To provide a comprehensive review of clinical research with emphasis on how to design and how to perform a clinical study. The course is best suited in the initial phase of a PhD program.

Learning outcomes: The participant should be able to reflect on/discuss

1) Selection of study design
2) Power sample calculations
3) Collaboration with the ethics committee and legal advicers
4) Data management including new GDRP regulation
5) Good Clinical Practice GCP and Good Laboratory Practice (GLP)          

Workload: The full workload of the course is expected to be 24 hours

Content: The course covers the development, conduct, and interpretation of clinical trials. Different study designs are reviewed. The process by which new drugs and medical devices are developed and tested is discussed. Upon completion of the course the participants will be able to have a working knowledge of how to collect and manage clinical trial data.

Instructors: Morten Böttcher

Venue: Aarhus University, Aarhus

Participation in the course is without cost for:

  • PhD students, Health Research Year students and Health Research Honours Programme students from Aarhus University
  • PhD students enrolled at partner universities of the Nordoc collaboration
  • PhD students from other institutions in the open market agreement for PhD courses

Course dates:

  • 28 March 2023 08:30 - 15:30
  • 29 March 2023 08:30 - 15:30
  • 30 March 2023 08:30 - 15:30