Course Introduction to Research Training in Health Sciences

The course, C236/20 Introduction to Research Training in Health Sciences, is being offered being offered by the Graduate School of Health, Aarhus University, fall 2022.

Criteria for participation: Students or candidates in medicine, dentistry, nursing or Master’s degree in other fields planning to start research as a PhD student, research year fellow or similar at the Faculty of Health, Aarhus University.

The course is being offered two times a year (fall/spring). If you plan to apply for enrolment in spring, we recommend to sign-up for the course in fall, and the other way around

Aim: The aim of the course is to give an introduction to the main research fields in health sciences and to give an introduction to the requirements for conducting a research year or a PhD.

Learning outcomes:

• Introduction to basic, clinical, qualitative and epidemiological research
• Gain knowledge on writing research protocols
• Gain knowledge on writing successful applications
• Introduction to structured literature search
• Reflections on student-supervisor relationships
• Introduction to ethics and regulations in animal and clinical research

Contents: Introduction to basic, clinical, and qualitative research as well as epidemiology; Introduction to writing protocols and grant application; Short introduction to literature research; Requirements according to ethics in science; Discussion of the planned research projects by the participants.

Workload: The full workload of the course is expected to be 18 hours.

Venue: The Conference Centre, Frederik Nielsens Vej 2-4, 8000 Aarhus C

Course fee: Participation in the course is free of charge.

Course dates:

• 06 October 2022 08:00 - 16:00
• 07 October 2022 08:00 - 16:00