Welcome to Health scientific information searching- Hands on training and methods for conducting a systematic search (2025)
Description:
This course is aimed at doctoral students and researchers within health science. You will be introduced to methods, techniques, and tools relevant for searching, evaluating, and organizing literature.
During the course, you will learn how to design a search strategy and to conduct and document a systematic search.
The course will cover these essential areas: Health scientific information search: How to use tools like PICO to formulate structured search queries for use in bibliographic databases such as PubMed and Embase.
How to choose the right databases for your research question. Training in PubMed and Embase using structured queries with the MeSH and EMTREE tools. Focus will be on your own research question.
Documentation and organization of search results: How to document the search and make it transparent to others by using the PRISMA flow diagram.
You will be introduced to systems that can facilitate the process of organizing, screening, and handling references from multiple databases and sources.
Making reviews: How we make sure that the search is exhaustive and as relevant as possible and meets the requirements of different types of reviews.
Additional search methods: How to improve or supplement your search by using other search methods.
You will be introduced to known methods such as citation searching but also to more recent methods such as text mining tools.
The course is a “toolbox for research”-course with a mix of presentations and hands-on training. You can either work individually focusing on your own PhD-project, or in small groups with a shared focus.
Preparation before the course: Some reading previous to the course should be expected.
Exercises: There will be both class exercises and a home assignment. The home assignment is introduced during the course. You are required to finish the home assignment at home and return it by a specific date.
Accommodation: There will be coffee and tea during the day. However, you will have to bring your ownlunch. Alternatively, you can buy food at the canteen at Kroghstræde 3.
Prerequisites:
Key literature:
Organizer:
Pernille Skou Gaardsted, librarian, M.Li.Sc. e-mail: psg@rn.dk and Sabine Dreier, librarian,
M.Li.Sc e-mail: sd@aub.aau.dk
Lecturers:
Pernille Skou Gaardsted, librarian, M.Li.Sc. e-mail: psg@rn.dk; Sabine Dreier librarian, M.Li.Sc. e-
mail: sd@aub.aau.dk
ECTS: 1.0
Time: Date Month Year
Place: (Seminar room Darwin, floor 0, Kroghstræde 3, 9220, Aalborg Øst)
Zip code: 9220
City: Aalborg
Maximal number of participants: 20
Deadline: Date Month Year
Important information concerning PhD courses:
There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.
We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.
To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.
For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at aauphd@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.
Description:
This course is aimed at doctoral students and researchers within health science. You will be introduced to methods, techniques, and tools relevant for searching, evaluating, and organizing literature.
During the course, you will learn how to design a search strategy and to conduct and document a systematic search.
The course will cover these essential areas: Health scientific information search: How to use tools like PICO to formulate structured search queries for use in bibliographic databases such as PubMed and Embase.
How to choose the right databases for your research question. Training in PubMed and Embase using structured queries with the MeSH and EMTREE tools. Focus will be on your own research question.
Documentation and organization of search results: How to document the search and make it transparent to others by using the PRISMA flow diagram.
You will be introduced to systems that can facilitate the process of organizing, screening, and handling references from multiple databases and sources.
Making reviews: How we make sure that the search is exhaustive and as relevant as possible and meets the requirements of different types of reviews.
Additional search methods: How to improve or supplement your search by using other search methods.
You will be introduced to known methods such as citation searching but also to more recent methods such as text mining tools.
The course is a “toolbox for research”-course with a mix of presentations and hands-on training. You can either work individually focusing on your own PhD-project, or in small groups with a shared focus.
Preparation before the course: Some reading previous to the course should be expected.
Exercises: There will be both class exercises and a home assignment. The home assignment is introduced during the course. You are required to finish the home assignment at home and return it by a specific date.
Accommodation: There will be coffee and tea during the day. However, you will have to bring your ownlunch. Alternatively, you can buy food at the canteen at Kroghstræde 3.
Prerequisites:
Key literature:
Organizer:
Pernille Skou Gaardsted, librarian, M.Li.Sc. e-mail: psg@rn.dk and Sabine Dreier, librarian,
M.Li.Sc e-mail: sd@aub.aau.dk
Lecturers:
Pernille Skou Gaardsted, librarian, M.Li.Sc. e-mail: psg@rn.dk; Sabine Dreier librarian, M.Li.Sc. e-
mail: sd@aub.aau.dk
ECTS: 1.0
Time: Date Month Year
Place: (Seminar room Darwin, floor 0, Kroghstræde 3, 9220, Aalborg Øst)
Zip code: 9220
City: Aalborg
Maximal number of participants: 20
Deadline: Date Month Year
Important information concerning PhD courses:
There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.
We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.
To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.
For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at aauphd@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.
- Teacher: Sabine Dreier
- Teacher: Pernille Skou Gaardsted
Welcome to Effective science communication
Description:
Science is communicated mostly through the interpretation of empirical results, and an effective presentation of such results facilitates understanding and dissemination. In order to be successful in disseminating results, researchers need to gain skills on how to create the relevant narrative to introduce the research problem, as well as present the results using appropriate figures, tables and even other tools such as videos and gifs. In this course students will gain skills in the following topics:
- Structuring your research question – the link between the literature and your project
- Formulating understandable hypotheses – what are you expecting from your data?
- Results layout – When to use or avoid tables/figures in papers and presentations?
- Communicating data – structuring your research speech and text to improve clarity
The course combines short theoretical lectures on the main topics and practical exercises/workshops to gradually improve skills. Ultimately, students will have tools to maximize the productivity when meeting with Ph.D. supervisors and other colleagues, as well as to facilitate scientific writing for conferences and journal publications.
Prerequisites:
No prerequisites exist for this course. However, good skills in English language are an advantage.
Form of evaluation:
A final assignment will consist of a presentation during a mini symposium organized at the last day of the course.
In the presentation, students must demonstrate the gained skills in structuring the scientific question/hypothesis, as well as efficiently and appropriately illustrate a relevant result.
Data from PhD experiments can be used for presentation in case the student already possess his/her own project data.
Key literature:
Relevant papers and book chapters will be provided to the participants shortly before the course.
Organizer: Associate Professor Anderson Oliveira, e-mail: oliveira@mp.aau.dk
Lecturers: Associate Professor Anderson Oliveira
ECTS: 1.5
Time: Two full days in October and November
Place: Aalborg University
Zip code: 9220
City: Aalborg
Maximal number of participants: 15
Deadline: Date Month Year
Important information concerning PhD courses:
There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.
We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.
To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.
For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at aauphd@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.
Description:
Science is communicated mostly through the interpretation of empirical results, and an effective presentation of such results facilitates understanding and dissemination. In order to be successful in disseminating results, researchers need to gain skills on how to create the relevant narrative to introduce the research problem, as well as present the results using appropriate figures, tables and even other tools such as videos and gifs. In this course students will gain skills in the following topics:
- Structuring your research question – the link between the literature and your project
- Formulating understandable hypotheses – what are you expecting from your data?
- Results layout – When to use or avoid tables/figures in papers and presentations?
- Communicating data – structuring your research speech and text to improve clarity
The course combines short theoretical lectures on the main topics and practical exercises/workshops to gradually improve skills. Ultimately, students will have tools to maximize the productivity when meeting with Ph.D. supervisors and other colleagues, as well as to facilitate scientific writing for conferences and journal publications.
Prerequisites:
No prerequisites exist for this course. However, good skills in English language are an advantage.
Form of evaluation:
A final assignment will consist of a presentation during a mini symposium organized at the last day of the course.
In the presentation, students must demonstrate the gained skills in structuring the scientific question/hypothesis, as well as efficiently and appropriately illustrate a relevant result.
Data from PhD experiments can be used for presentation in case the student already possess his/her own project data.
Key literature:
Relevant papers and book chapters will be provided to the participants shortly before the course.
Organizer: Associate Professor Anderson Oliveira, e-mail: oliveira@mp.aau.dk
Lecturers: Associate Professor Anderson Oliveira
ECTS: 1.5
Time: Two full days in October and November
Place: Aalborg University
Zip code: 9220
City: Aalborg
Maximal number of participants: 15
Deadline: Date Month Year
Important information concerning PhD courses:
There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.
We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.
To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.
For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at aauphd@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.
- Teacher: Anderson de Souza Castelo Oliveira
Welcome to Creative research design presentation and analytical practices
Description:
Research is never a fixed phenomenon. Its practices are subjected to change, creating different variations across time and cultures. Methods, analysis, and demonstrations vary according to scientific paradigms, habits, and customs, as well as expectations and demands. In current medical research RCTs, IMRAD articles and evidence based represents the dominating form of research design, presentation, and analytical practices. But there are things emerging in the shadows and in the outskirts. Other forms of data and data collection, of presentation and communication, and of thinking about and thinking with, are finding their way into research practices. Creative forms that may or may not be justified. Some are artistic and aesthetic, some are personal and playful, some are fictional and speculative.
In this course we will present and discuss some of this alternative research practices, such as Creative Analytical Practices, Speculative Methods, Art-based Inquire, etc. The purpose is to understand some of these practices, to assess their value, and their feasibility and validity as science, and to deliberate on their possibilities and limitations.
The course is organised with four full day sessions. Each session consists of lectures, exercises, and workshop activities. The students will also try out some creative forms themselves and produce a presentation in the time between the first and second set of dates.
During the course the participants will have a chance to enhance their general understanding of science and scientific research, and to find out, if this road less travelled, is one they would like to pursue or if they are content just knowing that it is there.
Prerequisites:
None
Form of evaluation:
Active participation, including short assignments. A presentation to be prepared between the first and second set of dates.
Key literature:
Relevant papers and book chapters will be made available prior to each session.
Organizer:
Associate Professor Patrik Kjærsdam Telléus, email: pkt@hst.aau.dk
Associate Professor Lars Domino Østergaard, email: ldo@hst.aau.dk
Lecturers:
Associate Professor Patrik Kjærsdam Telléus,
Associate Professor Lars Domino Østergaard
Guest researchers, such as, e.g., Tatiana Chemi, Kritina Douglas, David Carless,
Helle Winter
ECTS: 3
Time: 10 -11 April, 8 - 9 May 2025
Place: Aalborg University
Zip code: 9220
City: Aalborg
Maximal number of participants: 25
Deadline: 20 March 2025
Important information concerning PhD courses:
There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.
We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.
To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.
For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at aauphd@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.
Description:
Research is never a fixed phenomenon. Its practices are subjected to change, creating different variations across time and cultures. Methods, analysis, and demonstrations vary according to scientific paradigms, habits, and customs, as well as expectations and demands. In current medical research RCTs, IMRAD articles and evidence based represents the dominating form of research design, presentation, and analytical practices. But there are things emerging in the shadows and in the outskirts. Other forms of data and data collection, of presentation and communication, and of thinking about and thinking with, are finding their way into research practices. Creative forms that may or may not be justified. Some are artistic and aesthetic, some are personal and playful, some are fictional and speculative.
In this course we will present and discuss some of this alternative research practices, such as Creative Analytical Practices, Speculative Methods, Art-based Inquire, etc. The purpose is to understand some of these practices, to assess their value, and their feasibility and validity as science, and to deliberate on their possibilities and limitations.
The course is organised with four full day sessions. Each session consists of lectures, exercises, and workshop activities. The students will also try out some creative forms themselves and produce a presentation in the time between the first and second set of dates.
During the course the participants will have a chance to enhance their general understanding of science and scientific research, and to find out, if this road less travelled, is one they would like to pursue or if they are content just knowing that it is there.
Prerequisites:
None
Form of evaluation:
Active participation, including short assignments. A presentation to be prepared between the first and second set of dates.
Key literature:
Relevant papers and book chapters will be made available prior to each session.
Organizer:
Associate Professor Patrik Kjærsdam Telléus, email: pkt@hst.aau.dk
Associate Professor Lars Domino Østergaard, email: ldo@hst.aau.dk
Lecturers:
Associate Professor Patrik Kjærsdam Telléus,
Associate Professor Lars Domino Østergaard
Guest researchers, such as, e.g., Tatiana Chemi, Kritina Douglas, David Carless,
Helle Winter
ECTS: 3
Time: 10 -11 April, 8 - 9 May 2025
Place: Aalborg University
Zip code: 9220
City: Aalborg
Maximal number of participants: 25
Deadline: 20 March 2025
Important information concerning PhD courses:
There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.
We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.
To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.
For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at aauphd@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.
- Teacher: Patrik Kristoffer Kjærsdam Telléus
- Teacher: Lars Domino Østergaard
Welcome to Basic bioethics
Description:
This course will provide the PhD students with a basic understanding of the discipline of bioethics and equip the PhD students with the necessary knowledge for them to participate constructively in the bioethical discourses relevant for their research field.
Bioethics is an unescapable part of research in medicine, health care and bioengineering. It influences the researcher in terms of regulations and procedures, politics, and public opinions, as well as in more personal hopes and doubts. To be acquainted with the general ideas and theories of bioethics, can help the researcher to navigate, relate and evaluate the different ethical impacts and opinions. To reflect on the values, the broader consequences and risks and benefits of one’s research is also a way to strengthen the research both in terms of its contribution to society and related to one’s own integrity, purpose, and responsibility. It is also valuable for researchers to acknowledge and be able to formulate bioethical concerns as part of applications for research grants.
The course is organised as three full day sessions. Each session consists of lectures, exercises, and workshop activities. The sessions will be supplemented by literature and video material and will cover both introductory issues as well as selected in-depth analyses.
Prerequisites:
No prior knowledge of bioethics or ethics in general is needed.
Form of evaluation:
Active participation, including short assignments and presentations during the course.
Key literature:
Relevant papers and book chapters will be made available prior to each session.
Organizer:
Associate professor Patrik Kjærsdam Telléus, email: pkt@hst.aau.dk
Professor Winnie Jensen, email: wj@hst.aau.dk
Lecturers:
Associate Professor Patrik Kjærsdam Telléus
Professor Winnie Jensen
Invited speakers
ECTS: 2.0
Time: 23 - 25 April 2025
Place: Aalborg University
Zip code: 9220
City: Aalborg
Maximal number of participants: 25
Deadline: 2 April 2025
Important information concerning PhD courses:
There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.
We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.
To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.
For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at aauphd@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.
Description:
This course will provide the PhD students with a basic understanding of the discipline of bioethics and equip the PhD students with the necessary knowledge for them to participate constructively in the bioethical discourses relevant for their research field.
Bioethics is an unescapable part of research in medicine, health care and bioengineering. It influences the researcher in terms of regulations and procedures, politics, and public opinions, as well as in more personal hopes and doubts. To be acquainted with the general ideas and theories of bioethics, can help the researcher to navigate, relate and evaluate the different ethical impacts and opinions. To reflect on the values, the broader consequences and risks and benefits of one’s research is also a way to strengthen the research both in terms of its contribution to society and related to one’s own integrity, purpose, and responsibility. It is also valuable for researchers to acknowledge and be able to formulate bioethical concerns as part of applications for research grants.
The course is organised as three full day sessions. Each session consists of lectures, exercises, and workshop activities. The sessions will be supplemented by literature and video material and will cover both introductory issues as well as selected in-depth analyses.
Prerequisites:
No prior knowledge of bioethics or ethics in general is needed.
Form of evaluation:
Active participation, including short assignments and presentations during the course.
Key literature:
Relevant papers and book chapters will be made available prior to each session.
Organizer:
Associate professor Patrik Kjærsdam Telléus, email: pkt@hst.aau.dk
Professor Winnie Jensen, email: wj@hst.aau.dk
Lecturers:
Associate Professor Patrik Kjærsdam Telléus
Professor Winnie Jensen
Invited speakers
ECTS: 2.0
Time: 23 - 25 April 2025
Place: Aalborg University
Zip code: 9220
City: Aalborg
Maximal number of participants: 25
Deadline: 2 April 2025
Important information concerning PhD courses:
There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.
We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.
To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.
For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at aauphd@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.
- Teacher: Winnie Jensen
- Teacher: Patrik Kristoffer Kjærsdam Telléus
Welcome to Co-production and community involvement in health research
Description:
For the past decade health policies and programs have widely emphasized the relevance of involving the groups in focus along with community stakeholders in co-production processes. Yet, little attention has been directed towards conceptualizing co-production and community involvement, along with describing how such processes are carried out in practice and not least researching their possible impact as well as unintended consequences.
This course aims to provide PhD students with knowledge about the concept of co-production, its historical background, and its current relevance in health research. The course will also present involvement methods, facilitating techniques and selected evaluation methods to use in the process of co-production and community involvement. The course will also offer PhD students a space for reflecting on not only the possible impact but also unintended consequences and how to address these.
The course involves lectures, group work and discussions about:
· What is co-production; when did the concept appear historically, which are the key characteristics and what range of approaches may be applied today?
· How to involve the group in focus and community stakeholders in the research process and which involvement methods, facilitating techniques and evaluation methods may be used?
· What may be done to address possible unintended consequences and power differences?
Prerequisites:
None
Form of evaluation:
Evaluation by participating in lectures and group work discussions.
Key literature:
A reference list with the primary literature will be provided before the course. Group work and discussions will be carried out during the course.
Organizer:
Professor Sine Agergaard, email: sine@hst.aau.dk
Associate Professor Kirsten Schultz Petersen, email: ksp@hst.aau.dk
Lecturers:
Organisers and international lecturer
ECTS: 1.5
Time:
21 May 2025, 9-16
22 May 2025, 9-16
Place: Aalborg University
Zip code: 9220
City: Aalborg
Maximal number of participants: 25
Deadline: 30 April 2025
Important information concerning PhD courses:
There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.
We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.
To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.
For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at aauphd@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.
Description:
For the past decade health policies and programs have widely emphasized the relevance of involving the groups in focus along with community stakeholders in co-production processes. Yet, little attention has been directed towards conceptualizing co-production and community involvement, along with describing how such processes are carried out in practice and not least researching their possible impact as well as unintended consequences.
This course aims to provide PhD students with knowledge about the concept of co-production, its historical background, and its current relevance in health research. The course will also present involvement methods, facilitating techniques and selected evaluation methods to use in the process of co-production and community involvement. The course will also offer PhD students a space for reflecting on not only the possible impact but also unintended consequences and how to address these.
The course involves lectures, group work and discussions about:
· What is co-production; when did the concept appear historically, which are the key characteristics and what range of approaches may be applied today?
· How to involve the group in focus and community stakeholders in the research process and which involvement methods, facilitating techniques and evaluation methods may be used?
· What may be done to address possible unintended consequences and power differences?
Prerequisites:
None
Form of evaluation:
Evaluation by participating in lectures and group work discussions.
Key literature:
A reference list with the primary literature will be provided before the course. Group work and discussions will be carried out during the course.
Organizer:
Professor Sine Agergaard, email: sine@hst.aau.dk
Associate Professor Kirsten Schultz Petersen, email: ksp@hst.aau.dk
Lecturers:
Organisers and international lecturer
ECTS: 1.5
Time:
21 May 2025, 9-16
22 May 2025, 9-16
Place: Aalborg University
Zip code: 9220
City: Aalborg
Maximal number of participants: 25
Deadline: 30 April 2025
Important information concerning PhD courses:
There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.
We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.
To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.
For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at aauphd@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.
- Teacher: Sine Agergaard
- Teacher: Kirsten Schultz Petersen
Welcome to Focus Groups as research method
Description:
The objective of the course is to introduce participants to how focus groups can be used as research method within healthcare research.
Focus groups is a research method where data are generated through group interactions based on a selected topic. The specific characteristic of focus groups is their explicit use of group interaction to produce data and insights that would be less accessible without the interaction that plays out in a group.
The course will include a mix of presentations, group reflections, exercises, and individual work related to the themes:
· Introduction to focus groups as research method (historical, philosophical, and methodological assumptions)
· Designing a focus group study (theoretical, methodological, and practical considerations)
· Conducting a focus group (incl. practical exercises)
· Analyzing data from focus groups (analyzing content and interaction)
· Reporting findings from a focus group study
The course will strengthen participants’ knowledge base, reflection, and scientific argumentation for the use of focus groups in healthcare research.
Prerequisites:
Participants are required to prepare a description (max. 1 page) of aim of PhD study, methods, and reflections related to the possible use of focus groups as method in their PhD - or reflections on how this course is relevant.
Key literature:
A list of relevant scientific papers and book chapters will be provided to participants prior to the course.
Organizer: Dr. Birgitte Lerbæk, birgitte.lerbaek@rn.dk
Lecturers:
Britt Laugesen, Associate professor, Clinical Nursing Research Unit, Aalborg University Hospital & Centre for Clinical Guidelines, Aalborg University
Siri Lygum Voldbjerg, Associate professor, Clinical Nursing Research Unit, Aalborg University Hospital & Department of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University & Department of Nursing, UCN
Mette Geil Kollerup, Lecturer and Postdoc, Department of Nursing, University College Northern Denmark & Clinical Nursing Research Unit, Aalborg University Hospital, Denmark
Dr. Birgitte Lerbæk, Senior researcher at Unit for Psychiatric Research, Psychiatry – Aalborg University Hospital
ECTS: 1.5
Time: Spring or autumn 2025
Place: AAU Sund, Selma Lagerlöfs vej 249
Zip code: 9260
City: Aalborg/Gistrup
Maximal number of participants: 20
Deadline: Date Month Year
Important information concerning PhD courses:
There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.
We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.
To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.
For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at aauphd@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.
Description:
The objective of the course is to introduce participants to how focus groups can be used as research method within healthcare research.
Focus groups is a research method where data are generated through group interactions based on a selected topic. The specific characteristic of focus groups is their explicit use of group interaction to produce data and insights that would be less accessible without the interaction that plays out in a group.
The course will include a mix of presentations, group reflections, exercises, and individual work related to the themes:
· Introduction to focus groups as research method (historical, philosophical, and methodological assumptions)
· Designing a focus group study (theoretical, methodological, and practical considerations)
· Conducting a focus group (incl. practical exercises)
· Analyzing data from focus groups (analyzing content and interaction)
· Reporting findings from a focus group study
The course will strengthen participants’ knowledge base, reflection, and scientific argumentation for the use of focus groups in healthcare research.
Prerequisites:
Participants are required to prepare a description (max. 1 page) of aim of PhD study, methods, and reflections related to the possible use of focus groups as method in their PhD - or reflections on how this course is relevant.
Key literature:
A list of relevant scientific papers and book chapters will be provided to participants prior to the course.
Organizer: Dr. Birgitte Lerbæk, birgitte.lerbaek@rn.dk
Lecturers:
Britt Laugesen, Associate professor, Clinical Nursing Research Unit, Aalborg University Hospital & Centre for Clinical Guidelines, Aalborg University
Siri Lygum Voldbjerg, Associate professor, Clinical Nursing Research Unit, Aalborg University Hospital & Department of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University & Department of Nursing, UCN
Mette Geil Kollerup, Lecturer and Postdoc, Department of Nursing, University College Northern Denmark & Clinical Nursing Research Unit, Aalborg University Hospital, Denmark
Dr. Birgitte Lerbæk, Senior researcher at Unit for Psychiatric Research, Psychiatry – Aalborg University Hospital
ECTS: 1.5
Time: Spring or autumn 2025
Place: AAU Sund, Selma Lagerlöfs vej 249
Zip code: 9260
City: Aalborg/Gistrup
Maximal number of participants: 20
Deadline: Date Month Year
Important information concerning PhD courses:
There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.
We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.
To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.
For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at aauphd@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.
- Teacher: Britt Laugesen
- Teacher: Birgitte Lerbæk
Welcome to Introduction to systematic reviews and Scoping reviews
Description:
The objective of this three-day methodological course is to provide the participants an introduction to the main principles of conducting a systematic review of qualitative evidence (meta-synthesis with meta-aggregative approach), a systematic review of effectiveness (meta-analysis) and a scoping review using the JBI guidelines.
The participants will be introduced to the JBI methodology that outline a systematic approach to developing a protocol and conducting systematic reviews and scoping reviews. The course will present aspects common to conducting systematic reviews and scoping reviews as well as unique aspects related to meta-syntheses, meta-analyses, and scoping reviews. The course will enable the participants to choose between the three types of reviews and provide rationales for the choice.
The course covers the following areas relevant to developing a review protocol and conducting a systematic review or a scoping review:
· JBI guidelines and template to developing a systematic review and a scoping review protocol and a review.
· Differences and similarities between systematic reviews and scoping reviews
· Focused questions: PICo, PICO and PCC
· Search strategy
· Source of evidence selection
· Critical appraisal using relevant checklists.
· Data extraction
· Data synthesis and presentation of results
The course includes presentations from lectures, group activities, either individually focusing on the participants’ own PhD-project or in small groups with a shared focus and short presentations from the PhD students.
Prerequisites:
None
Form of evaluation:
Evaluation by a multiple-choice test.
Key literature:
Selected papers and book chapters will be announced to the participants shortly before the course.
Organizer: Associate Professor Marianne Wetendorff Nørgaard, mwn@dcm.aau.dk
Lecturers: Associate Professor Britt Laugesen, britt.laugesen@rn.dk and Professor Merete Bjerrum, mb@ph.au.dk
ECTS: 2.0
Time: 30 September, 3 & 7 October 2025
Place: Aalborg University
Zip code: 9220
City: Aalborg
Maximal number of participants: 15
Deadline: 9 September 2025
Important information concerning PhD courses:
There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.
We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.
To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.
For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at aauphd@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.
Description:
The objective of this three-day methodological course is to provide the participants an introduction to the main principles of conducting a systematic review of qualitative evidence (meta-synthesis with meta-aggregative approach), a systematic review of effectiveness (meta-analysis) and a scoping review using the JBI guidelines.
The participants will be introduced to the JBI methodology that outline a systematic approach to developing a protocol and conducting systematic reviews and scoping reviews. The course will present aspects common to conducting systematic reviews and scoping reviews as well as unique aspects related to meta-syntheses, meta-analyses, and scoping reviews. The course will enable the participants to choose between the three types of reviews and provide rationales for the choice.
The course covers the following areas relevant to developing a review protocol and conducting a systematic review or a scoping review:
· JBI guidelines and template to developing a systematic review and a scoping review protocol and a review.
· Differences and similarities between systematic reviews and scoping reviews
· Focused questions: PICo, PICO and PCC
· Search strategy
· Source of evidence selection
· Critical appraisal using relevant checklists.
· Data extraction
· Data synthesis and presentation of results
The course includes presentations from lectures, group activities, either individually focusing on the participants’ own PhD-project or in small groups with a shared focus and short presentations from the PhD students.
Prerequisites:
None
Form of evaluation:
Evaluation by a multiple-choice test.
Key literature:
Selected papers and book chapters will be announced to the participants shortly before the course.
Organizer: Associate Professor Marianne Wetendorff Nørgaard, mwn@dcm.aau.dk
Lecturers: Associate Professor Britt Laugesen, britt.laugesen@rn.dk and Professor Merete Bjerrum, mb@ph.au.dk
ECTS: 2.0
Time: 30 September, 3 & 7 October 2025
Place: Aalborg University
Zip code: 9220
City: Aalborg
Maximal number of participants: 15
Deadline: 9 September 2025
Important information concerning PhD courses:
There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.
We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.
To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.
For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at aauphd@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.
- Teacher: Britt Laugesen
- Teacher: Marianne Wetendorff Nørgaard
Welcome to Ethnography in health care sciences
Description:
Ethnographic research has become increasingly popular in health care sciences. This course provides a solid methodological foundation for using ethnographic research to understand real-world issues in context. Attention will be paid to how ethnographic strategies can be deployed in health care contexts, as a way of illustrating the more general principles of ethnographic work.
Over four days, this course will cover core components of the ethnographic approach such as data gathering in fieldwork (participant observation, interview, field notes and documents), data analysis, ethical issues and writing articles based on ethnography. The course will provide students with an understanding of how to design and carry out ethnographic research and an awareness of contemporary developments in the theory and practice of ethnographic studies.
The course is designed for participants and lecturers to engage in different activities such as lectures, practical exercises and discussions of some of the theoretical, methodological and practical issues and challenges in using ethnography. Each participant will give a short presentation of his/hers PhD project and receive feedback from lecturers and participants during the course.
Prerequisites:
Participants must provide an abstract or a brief description (approx. 1 page) of a specific issue or challenge related to ethnography concerning their study. This should be sent to hht@rn.dk no later than 15. sept
Each participant must also prepare a presentation that will be presented at the course (10 minutes), on the project also stating what are the points that each wants to have a discussion on. Based on the presentation, a discussion with lectures and the other participants will follow (each participant has in total aprx 30 minutes).
Organizer: Helle Haslund-Thomsen
Lecturers:
Emma Balkin (EB), Birgitte Lerbæk(BIL), Siri Lygum Voldbjerg (SLV), Britt Laugesen (BL) Kirsten Schultz Petersen (KSP), Helle Haslund Thomsen (HHT).
ECTS: 3.0
Time: 9-16, 30 September - 3 October 2025
Place: Selma Lagerløfsvej 249
Zip code: 9260
City: Aalborg
Maximal number of participants: 30
Deadline: 9 September 2025
Important information concerning PhD courses:
There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.
We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.
To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.
For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at aauphd@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.
Description:
Ethnographic research has become increasingly popular in health care sciences. This course provides a solid methodological foundation for using ethnographic research to understand real-world issues in context. Attention will be paid to how ethnographic strategies can be deployed in health care contexts, as a way of illustrating the more general principles of ethnographic work.
Over four days, this course will cover core components of the ethnographic approach such as data gathering in fieldwork (participant observation, interview, field notes and documents), data analysis, ethical issues and writing articles based on ethnography. The course will provide students with an understanding of how to design and carry out ethnographic research and an awareness of contemporary developments in the theory and practice of ethnographic studies.
The course is designed for participants and lecturers to engage in different activities such as lectures, practical exercises and discussions of some of the theoretical, methodological and practical issues and challenges in using ethnography. Each participant will give a short presentation of his/hers PhD project and receive feedback from lecturers and participants during the course.
Prerequisites:
Participants must provide an abstract or a brief description (approx. 1 page) of a specific issue or challenge related to ethnography concerning their study. This should be sent to hht@rn.dk no later than 15. sept
Each participant must also prepare a presentation that will be presented at the course (10 minutes), on the project also stating what are the points that each wants to have a discussion on. Based on the presentation, a discussion with lectures and the other participants will follow (each participant has in total aprx 30 minutes).
Organizer: Helle Haslund-Thomsen
Lecturers:
Emma Balkin (EB), Birgitte Lerbæk(BIL), Siri Lygum Voldbjerg (SLV), Britt Laugesen (BL) Kirsten Schultz Petersen (KSP), Helle Haslund Thomsen (HHT).
ECTS: 3.0
Time: 9-16, 30 September - 3 October 2025
Place: Selma Lagerløfsvej 249
Zip code: 9260
City: Aalborg
Maximal number of participants: 30
Deadline: 9 September 2025
Important information concerning PhD courses:
There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.
We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.
To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.
For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at aauphd@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.
- Teacher: Emma Balkin
- Teacher: Helle Lønstrup Haslund-Thomsen
- Teacher: Britt Laugesen
- Teacher: Birgitte Lerbæk
- Teacher: Kirsten Schultz Petersen
Welcome To CONDUCTING SCOPING REVIEWS
Description:
The objective of this three-day course is to provide
the participants an understanding of why and how to develop a scoping review
protocol and conduct a scoping review using the JBI methodology.
Scoping reviews provide an overview of the existing
literature within a defined topic of interest. A scoping review can be used to
map the key concepts that underpin a field of research, as well as to clarify
working definitions, and/or the conceptual boundaries of a topic. The most
common reasons for conducting a scoping review are to explore the breadth or
extent of the literature, map and summarize the evidence, and inform future
research.
The course covers the following areas relevant to developing a scoping review
protocol and conducting a scoping review:
JBI guidelines and template to developing a scoping review protocol
and scoping review
Differences and similarities between systematic reviews and scoping
reviews
Focused question P (Population) C (Concept) C (Context)
Search strategy
Source of evidence selection
Data extraction
Analysis and presentation of results
The course includes presentations from lectures, group
activities, either individually focusing on your own PhD-project or in small
groups with a shared focus and short presentations from the PhD students.
Prerequisites:
None
Form of evaluation:
Evaluation by a multiple-choice test
Key literature:
Selected papers and book chapters will be announced to the participants shortly before the course.
Organizer: Associate Professor Marianne Wetendorff Nørgaard, mwn@dcm.aau.dk
Lecturers: Associate Professor Britt Laugesen, britt.laugesen@rn
ECTS: 2.25
Time:
11/03/2025 - 8:30-15:30
12/03/2025 - 8:30-15:30
21/03/2025 - 8:30-15:30 Online
Place: Aalborg University
Zip code: 9220
City: Aalborg
Maximal number of participants: 20
Deadline: 18/02/2025
Important information concerning PhD courses:
There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.
We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.
To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.
For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at aauphd@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.
Description:
The objective of this three-day course is to provide
the participants an understanding of why and how to develop a scoping review
protocol and conduct a scoping review using the JBI methodology.
Scoping reviews provide an overview of the existing
literature within a defined topic of interest. A scoping review can be used to
map the key concepts that underpin a field of research, as well as to clarify
working definitions, and/or the conceptual boundaries of a topic. The most
common reasons for conducting a scoping review are to explore the breadth or
extent of the literature, map and summarize the evidence, and inform future
research.
The course covers the following areas relevant to developing a scoping review
protocol and conducting a scoping review:
JBI guidelines and template to developing a scoping review protocol
and scoping review
Differences and similarities between systematic reviews and scoping
reviews
Focused question P (Population) C (Concept) C (Context)
Search strategy
Source of evidence selection
Data extraction
Analysis and presentation of results
The course includes presentations from lectures, group
activities, either individually focusing on your own PhD-project or in small
groups with a shared focus and short presentations from the PhD students.
Prerequisites:
None
Form of evaluation:
Evaluation by a multiple-choice test
Key literature:
Selected papers and book chapters will be announced to the participants shortly before the course.
Organizer: Associate Professor Marianne Wetendorff Nørgaard, mwn@dcm.aau.dk
Lecturers: Associate Professor Britt Laugesen, britt.laugesen@rn
ECTS: 2.25
Time:
11/03/2025 - 8:30-15:30
12/03/2025 - 8:30-15:30
21/03/2025 - 8:30-15:30 Online
Place: Aalborg University
Zip code: 9220
City: Aalborg
Maximal number of participants: 20
Deadline: 18/02/2025
Important information concerning PhD courses:
There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.
We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.
To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.
For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at aauphd@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.
- Teacher: Britt Laugesen
Welcome to Dementia
Description:
The increasing average age of the population is followed by a concomitant increase in patients with neurodegeneration. Irrespective of the cause, the patient suffering from neurodegeneration typically acquires symptoms related to dementia (memory loss, cognitive decline, personality changes among others). Unfortunately, the causes of diseases with dementia are far from understood, and hence also possibilities of treatment.
This course, focusing on dementia, will delineate the current understanding of pathogenic mechanisms leading to neurodegeneration with dementia. Topics will also include updates on preclinical and clinical research, a coverage of the clinical course of dementia incl. clinical, imaging, and biochemical diagnostics, an introduction to current and novel treatments, and a coverage how patients are living with dementia and their out-patient care taking.
Prerequisites:
Some understandings of the following topics are preferable, although not a prerequisite: brain imaging, clinical neuroscience, human brain anatomy, neurodegeneration, neuropsychiatry, pharmacology
Form of evaluation:
Active participation
Key literature:
Litterature will be circulated during the course.
Organizer:
Torben Moos & Ove Wiborg
Lecturers:
University and hospital medical doctors and other academics seeing patients with dementia in Region Nordjylland plus other invited researchers.
ECTS: 1.5
Time: 24 - 25 March 2025, 8.30 – 15.30
Place: Aalborg University
Zip code: 9220
City: Aalborg
Maximal number of participants: 25
Deadline: 3 March 2025
Important information concerning PhD courses:
There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.
We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.
To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.
For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at aauphd@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.
Description:
The increasing average age of the population is followed by a concomitant increase in patients with neurodegeneration. Irrespective of the cause, the patient suffering from neurodegeneration typically acquires symptoms related to dementia (memory loss, cognitive decline, personality changes among others). Unfortunately, the causes of diseases with dementia are far from understood, and hence also possibilities of treatment.
This course, focusing on dementia, will delineate the current understanding of pathogenic mechanisms leading to neurodegeneration with dementia. Topics will also include updates on preclinical and clinical research, a coverage of the clinical course of dementia incl. clinical, imaging, and biochemical diagnostics, an introduction to current and novel treatments, and a coverage how patients are living with dementia and their out-patient care taking.
Prerequisites:
Some understandings of the following topics are preferable, although not a prerequisite: brain imaging, clinical neuroscience, human brain anatomy, neurodegeneration, neuropsychiatry, pharmacology
Form of evaluation:
Active participation
Key literature:
Litterature will be circulated during the course.
Organizer:
Torben Moos & Ove Wiborg
Lecturers:
University and hospital medical doctors and other academics seeing patients with dementia in Region Nordjylland plus other invited researchers.
ECTS: 1.5
Time: 24 - 25 March 2025, 8.30 – 15.30
Place: Aalborg University
Zip code: 9220
City: Aalborg
Maximal number of participants: 25
Deadline: 3 March 2025
Important information concerning PhD courses:
There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.
We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.
To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.
For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at aauphd@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.
- Teacher: Torben Moos
Welcome to From Idea to Project – An Introduction Course to Clinical Research and Development
Description:
This five-module introduction course (in Danish) offers a comprehensive education and training program in clinical research for health care professionals, incl PhD students. The five modules cover the followings topics:
1. Introduction to clinical research 2. Methods, 3. Legal aspects (incl. data safety and GDPR) ethics, good clinical practice, and project management, 4. Oral and written research dissemination, and 5. Project economy and research funding.
In conjunction with course the participants will be submitting an abstract to the annual Research Symposium (first Thursday in November) held at the North Denmark Regional Hospital.
Key literature:
At individual level. A basic research textbook (Klinisk Forskningsmetode) will be handed out to the course participants.
Organizer: Centre for Clinical Research, North Denmark Regional Hospital
Lecturers: Senior clinicians and other health-related research professionals
ECTS: 2.0
Time:
13/03/2025 8:00-15:30
29/04/2025 8:00-15:30
02/06/2025 8:00-15:30
19/08/2025 8:00-15:30
25/09/2025 8:00-15:30
Place: The Skou Auditorium, North Denmark Regional Hospital
Zip code: 9800
City: Hjoering
Maximal number of participants: 25
Deadline: 05/02/2025
Important information concerning PhD courses:
There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.
We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.
To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.
For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at aauphd@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.
Description:
This five-module introduction course (in Danish) offers a comprehensive education and training program in clinical research for health care professionals, incl PhD students. The five modules cover the followings topics:
1. Introduction to clinical research 2. Methods, 3. Legal aspects (incl. data safety and GDPR) ethics, good clinical practice, and project management, 4. Oral and written research dissemination, and 5. Project economy and research funding.
In conjunction with course the participants will be submitting an abstract to the annual Research Symposium (first Thursday in November) held at the North Denmark Regional Hospital.
Key literature:
At individual level. A basic research textbook (Klinisk Forskningsmetode) will be handed out to the course participants.
Organizer: Centre for Clinical Research, North Denmark Regional Hospital
Lecturers: Senior clinicians and other health-related research professionals
ECTS: 2.0
Time:
13/03/2025 8:00-15:30
29/04/2025 8:00-15:30
02/06/2025 8:00-15:30
19/08/2025 8:00-15:30
25/09/2025 8:00-15:30
Place: The Skou Auditorium, North Denmark Regional Hospital
Zip code: 9800
City: Hjoering
Maximal number of participants: 25
Deadline: 05/02/2025
Important information concerning PhD courses:
There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.
We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.
To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.
For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at aauphd@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.
- Teacher: Peter Derek Christian Leutscher
Welcome to Hematological Research - Study Design and Method Selection
Description:
A 2-day residential course, with encouragement to subsequently participate in the Danish Hematological Society´s annual meeting (DHS årsmøde 2025). (Please note separate registration with DHS). The course will include a workshop where participants will work in groups on study plans and designs to address various research questions within hematology. The research question will be relevant clinical problems. Participants will be asked to design studies to clarify the clinical issues This includes proposing methodological choices, hypothesis formulation, and objectives as well as suggestions for analysis plans.
The PhD course will also include the presentation of each participant´s own PhD program, with discussion/feedback from teachers and fellow students
Key words:
Prerequisites:
PhD students with basic knowledge on Hematology.
Organizer:
Professor Marianne Tang Severinsen, Aalborg University
Lecturers:
The course format will alternate between lectures/presentations, group work, and individual presentations.
ECTS: 1.0
Time: 09.00-21.00 March 6, 08.00- 12.00 March 7
Place: TRINITY HOTEL & KONFERENCE CENTER A/S, Gl. Færgevej 30, Snoghøj - DK-7000 Fredericia
Zip code: 7000
City: Fredericia
Maximal number of participants: 20
Deadline: 13 February 2025
Important information concerning PhD courses:
There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.
We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.
To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.
For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at aauphd@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.
Description:
A 2-day residential course, with encouragement to subsequently participate in the Danish Hematological Society´s annual meeting (DHS årsmøde 2025). (Please note separate registration with DHS). The course will include a workshop where participants will work in groups on study plans and designs to address various research questions within hematology. The research question will be relevant clinical problems. Participants will be asked to design studies to clarify the clinical issues This includes proposing methodological choices, hypothesis formulation, and objectives as well as suggestions for analysis plans.
The PhD course will also include the presentation of each participant´s own PhD program, with discussion/feedback from teachers and fellow students
Key words:
Prerequisites:
PhD students with basic knowledge on Hematology.
Organizer:
Professor Marianne Tang Severinsen, Aalborg University
Lecturers:
The course format will alternate between lectures/presentations, group work, and individual presentations.
ECTS: 1.0
Time: 09.00-21.00 March 6, 08.00- 12.00 March 7
Place: TRINITY HOTEL & KONFERENCE CENTER A/S, Gl. Færgevej 30, Snoghøj - DK-7000 Fredericia
Zip code: 7000
City: Fredericia
Maximal number of participants: 20
Deadline: 13 February 2025
Important information concerning PhD courses:
There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.
We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.
To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.
For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at aauphd@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.
Welcome to Disease-related malnutrition
Description:
Description: This PhD course aims at providing thorough, reflective, and reflexive knowledge on the overall aspects of disease related malnutrition and is especially intended for students with clinical projects. Moreover, this course aims to meet students’ needs in addition to covering essential elements of clinical research and evidence-based practice. Additionally, the course will attend especially to the issue of translational nutrition from the more cell based experimental nutrition over clinical nutrition to applied research methods. Prerequisites:
Students enrolled in PhD program and at a point where they have finished their general courses. Students doing quantitative and mixed method research in nutrition, regardless of research setting, are encouraged to apply for this course.
Program:
Day 1. 17.3.2025 10.00-16.00 Disease related malnutrition (Henrik Højgaard Rasmussen and Randi Tobberup)
10.00-10.30 Registration and coffee
10.30-11.15 Welcome and introduction
11.15-12.45 Background and definitions. Henrik Højgaard Rasmussen
Metabolism in healthy individuals, fasting and disease.
12.45- 13.30 Lunch (self-payment)
13.30-16 Nutritional assessment; Body composition and function (l) Randi Tobberup
· Assessment of skeletal muscle mass, BIA, CT, UL and MR Randi Tobberup and externals
· Anthropometric measures
· Measures of physical function
· Practical workshop in groups (Randi Tobberup, Marianne Køhler, Mette Holst and evt externals)
Day 2. 18.3.2025. 9.00-16.00 Nutritional Assessment (ll) ( Helle Nygaard Lærke (EXTERNAL) and Charlotte Lauridsen)
Digestion and absorption of nutrients (including also anatomy of the bowel)
Nutrients and their requirements in health and disease (energy, protein, amino acids, fat and fatty acids, vitamins and minerals)
12.45- 13.30 Lunch (self-payment)
Diet and inflammation
The role of the microbiota in inflammation and metabolism. External
Nutritional and inflammatory markers
Research methods in experimental nutrition; Surrogate models
Day 3 19.3.2025 9.00-16.00 Nutritional assessment (lll) (Mette Holst and Randi Tobberup)
Nutrition Impact Symptoms (NIS) and their implications on nutrition intake (Mette Holst)
NIS assessment methods for use in clinical practice and research
Patient reported outcome measures (PROMS) for use in clinical practice and research
Nutritional treatment (Plenum and case based work in groups) (Randi Tobberup)
· Methods for quantifying nutrition intake
· Estimation and measurements of nutritional requirements in different phenotypes, including indirect caloriemetry)
12.45- 13.30 Lunch (self-payment)Targeted nutritional therapy
· Introduction to case
1) Generalized interventions and specific therapies aimed at inflammation and body composition
2) Specific nutrients and bioactive substances targeting anabolism and inflammation
Nutrition intervention methods; Oral, enteral and parenteral
Case work in groups
Day 4 9.00-15 Research methods in clinical nutrition (Henrik Højgaard Rasmussen and Mette Holst)
Relevant clinical outcomes in clinical nutrition
Clinical research designs
1) Clinical: Observational and intervention studies
2) Applied: Questionnaires, qualitative methods and implementation studies
11.30-12.15 Lunch (Self-payment)
Workshops in groups
Journal club (Article will be disposed ultimo February 2025)
Group discussions related to individual group members Ph.d. study. Which methodological issues shall I consider in my study
Presentation from group sessions
Sum up and evaluation of course
15.00 Good bye
Learning objectives:
After the course the students should be able to: Explain the scientific basis and relevance and relevance of disease related malnutrition. Decide on scientific approaches and methodologies special for clinical nutrition research.
Teaching methods:
This course will be run in a combined lecture and workshop style and the students will be encouraged to active participation.
Form of evaluation:
Criteria for assessment:
Active participation in the course including brief presentation of own project and ‘methodology challenge you wish to tackle’. Presence at least three out of four days.
Online participation is not offered.
Remarks:
Key literature:
Chapters from: Sobotka L et al. “Basics in Clinical Nutrition” Fifth. Ed. Publishing House Galèn, ISBN978-80-7492-427-9 and other literature will follow upon signing for the course.
Organizer:
Mette Holst, Professor, Head of Research, PhD. Centre for Nutrition and intestinal Failure, Aalborg University hospital and Department of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University
Lecturers:
Henrik Højgaard Rasmussen, Professor, Consultant, MD, PhD. Centre for Nutrition and intestinal Failure, Aalborg University hospital and Department of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University
Randi Tobberup, Head of Dietetics, PhD. Centre for Nutrition and intestinal Failure, Aalborg University hospital
Helle Nygaard Lærke, Senior researcher, PhD. Department of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Section for Monogastric Nutrition, Aarhus University
Charlotte Lauridsen, Head of Department, Professor. Primary affiliation: Department of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Aarhus University; Secondary affiliation. Adjungated Professor at Department of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University.
Mette Holst, Professor, Head of Research, PhD. Centre for Nutrition and intestinal Failure, Aalborg University hospital and Department of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University
Additional external lecturers awaiting confirmation
ECTS: 2.0
Time: 17 - 20 March 2025
Place: Department of clinical medicine, Aalborg University
Zip code: 9220
City: Aalborg
Maximal number of participants: 20
Deadline: 24 February
Important information concerning PhD courses:
There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.
We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.
To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.
For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at aauphd@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.
Description:
Description: This PhD course aims at providing thorough, reflective, and reflexive knowledge on the overall aspects of disease related malnutrition and is especially intended for students with clinical projects. Moreover, this course aims to meet students’ needs in addition to covering essential elements of clinical research and evidence-based practice. Additionally, the course will attend especially to the issue of translational nutrition from the more cell based experimental nutrition over clinical nutrition to applied research methods. Prerequisites:
Students enrolled in PhD program and at a point where they have finished their general courses. Students doing quantitative and mixed method research in nutrition, regardless of research setting, are encouraged to apply for this course.
Program:
Day 1. 17.3.2025 10.00-16.00 Disease related malnutrition (Henrik Højgaard Rasmussen and Randi Tobberup)
10.00-10.30 Registration and coffee
10.30-11.15 Welcome and introduction
11.15-12.45 Background and definitions. Henrik Højgaard Rasmussen
Metabolism in healthy individuals, fasting and disease.
12.45- 13.30 Lunch (self-payment)
13.30-16 Nutritional assessment; Body composition and function (l) Randi Tobberup
· Assessment of skeletal muscle mass, BIA, CT, UL and MR Randi Tobberup and externals
· Anthropometric measures
· Measures of physical function
· Practical workshop in groups (Randi Tobberup, Marianne Køhler, Mette Holst and evt externals)
Day 2. 18.3.2025. 9.00-16.00 Nutritional Assessment (ll) ( Helle Nygaard Lærke (EXTERNAL) and Charlotte Lauridsen)
Digestion and absorption of nutrients (including also anatomy of the bowel)
Nutrients and their requirements in health and disease (energy, protein, amino acids, fat and fatty acids, vitamins and minerals)
12.45- 13.30 Lunch (self-payment)
Diet and inflammation
The role of the microbiota in inflammation and metabolism. External
Nutritional and inflammatory markers
Research methods in experimental nutrition; Surrogate models
Day 3 19.3.2025 9.00-16.00 Nutritional assessment (lll) (Mette Holst and Randi Tobberup)
Nutrition Impact Symptoms (NIS) and their implications on nutrition intake (Mette Holst)
NIS assessment methods for use in clinical practice and research
Patient reported outcome measures (PROMS) for use in clinical practice and research
Nutritional treatment (Plenum and case based work in groups) (Randi Tobberup)
· Methods for quantifying nutrition intake
· Estimation and measurements of nutritional requirements in different phenotypes, including indirect caloriemetry)
12.45- 13.30 Lunch (self-payment)Targeted nutritional therapy
· Introduction to case
1) Generalized interventions and specific therapies aimed at inflammation and body composition
2) Specific nutrients and bioactive substances targeting anabolism and inflammation
Nutrition intervention methods; Oral, enteral and parenteral
Case work in groups
Day 4 9.00-15 Research methods in clinical nutrition (Henrik Højgaard Rasmussen and Mette Holst)
Relevant clinical outcomes in clinical nutrition
Clinical research designs
1) Clinical: Observational and intervention studies
2) Applied: Questionnaires, qualitative methods and implementation studies
11.30-12.15 Lunch (Self-payment)
Workshops in groups
Journal club (Article will be disposed ultimo February 2025)
Group discussions related to individual group members Ph.d. study. Which methodological issues shall I consider in my study
Presentation from group sessions
Sum up and evaluation of course
15.00 Good bye
Learning objectives:
After the course the students should be able to: Explain the scientific basis and relevance and relevance of disease related malnutrition. Decide on scientific approaches and methodologies special for clinical nutrition research.
Teaching methods:
This course will be run in a combined lecture and workshop style and the students will be encouraged to active participation.
Form of evaluation:
Criteria for assessment:
Active participation in the course including brief presentation of own project and ‘methodology challenge you wish to tackle’. Presence at least three out of four days.
Online participation is not offered.
Remarks:
Key literature:
Chapters from: Sobotka L et al. “Basics in Clinical Nutrition” Fifth. Ed. Publishing House Galèn, ISBN978-80-7492-427-9 and other literature will follow upon signing for the course.
Organizer:
Mette Holst, Professor, Head of Research, PhD. Centre for Nutrition and intestinal Failure, Aalborg University hospital and Department of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University
Lecturers:
Henrik Højgaard Rasmussen, Professor, Consultant, MD, PhD. Centre for Nutrition and intestinal Failure, Aalborg University hospital and Department of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University
Randi Tobberup, Head of Dietetics, PhD. Centre for Nutrition and intestinal Failure, Aalborg University hospital
Helle Nygaard Lærke, Senior researcher, PhD. Department of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Section for Monogastric Nutrition, Aarhus University
Charlotte Lauridsen, Head of Department, Professor. Primary affiliation: Department of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Aarhus University; Secondary affiliation. Adjungated Professor at Department of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University.
Mette Holst, Professor, Head of Research, PhD. Centre for Nutrition and intestinal Failure, Aalborg University hospital and Department of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University
Additional external lecturers awaiting confirmation
ECTS: 2.0
Time: 17 - 20 March 2025
Place: Department of clinical medicine, Aalborg University
Zip code: 9220
City: Aalborg
Maximal number of participants: 20
Deadline: 24 February
Important information concerning PhD courses:
There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.
We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.
To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.
For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at aauphd@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.
- Teacher: Mette Holst
Welcome to The science of measurements: basic course with deep insights, clinically and research wise, enabling the participant to construct an instrument
Description:
This PhD-course will provide the participant with fundamental insights into the science of measurements in medicine.
The participant will acquire skills as to construct a measurement instrument, perform feasibility testing.
Disciplines such as validity, responsiveness, reproducibility will be reviewed and the participant will acquire hands-on user-understanding hereoff.
This course is an introduction into the world of measurements and will consist of one full day of ”meeting and talking to the professors”, followed by 3 virtual meetings of 2 hours duration.
A detailed syllabus to follow.
Prerequisites:
Basic understanding of statistics and clinical understanding.
Form of evaluation:
Quizz at the end of the PhD course.
Key literature:
Articles distributed in relation to the PhD course.
Organizer:
Prof. Niels Ejskjær ejskjaer@dcm.aau.dk and Professor Sherrie Kaplan
Lecturers:
Prof Sherrie Kaplan (UC-Irvine, Ca, USA), professor Sheldon Greenfield (UC-Irvine, Ca, USA),
professor Niels Ejskjaer (Steno Diabetes Center North Denmark), evt +DK-forelæser i tillæg
ECTS: 1.5
Time: Autumn 2025
Place: Aalborg University
Zip code: 9220
City: Aalborg
Maximal number of participants: 25
Deadline: Date Month Year
Important information concerning PhD courses:
There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course.
Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.
We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.
To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.
For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at aauphd@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.
Description:
This PhD-course will provide the participant with fundamental insights into the science of measurements in medicine.
The participant will acquire skills as to construct a measurement instrument, perform feasibility testing.
Disciplines such as validity, responsiveness, reproducibility will be reviewed and the participant will acquire hands-on user-understanding hereoff.
This course is an introduction into the world of measurements and will consist of one full day of ”meeting and talking to the professors”, followed by 3 virtual meetings of 2 hours duration.
A detailed syllabus to follow.
Prerequisites:
Basic understanding of statistics and clinical understanding.
Form of evaluation:
Quizz at the end of the PhD course.
Key literature:
Articles distributed in relation to the PhD course.
Organizer:
Prof. Niels Ejskjær ejskjaer@dcm.aau.dk and Professor Sherrie Kaplan
Lecturers:
Prof Sherrie Kaplan (UC-Irvine, Ca, USA), professor Sheldon Greenfield (UC-Irvine, Ca, USA),
professor Niels Ejskjaer (Steno Diabetes Center North Denmark), evt +DK-forelæser i tillæg
ECTS: 1.5
Time: Autumn 2025
Place: Aalborg University
Zip code: 9220
City: Aalborg
Maximal number of participants: 25
Deadline: Date Month Year
Important information concerning PhD courses:
There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course.
Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.
We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.
To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.
For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at aauphd@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.
Welcome to Diabetic neuropathy: deep insights into research methodologies, clinical applications and future research strategies
Description:
This PhD-course will provide the participant with deep insights into cutting-edge methodologies and future research strategies for diabetic neuropathy at an international and elite level.
The participant will receive an expert overview of the collective field, clinically and research-wise – and there will be ample time to network and talk one-to-on to the faculty.Overall the focus will be on robust clinical endpoints (robust specific-senstive measurements), that are so crucial for timely neuropathy prevention, treatment and evaluation and this is the core of this course.
Prerequisites:
Physiological and clinical understanding
Form of evaluation:
Quizz at the end of the PhD course.
Key literature:
Articles distributed in relation to the PhD course.
Organizer:
Prof. Niels Ejskjær ejskjaer@dcm.aau.dk and ass prof Johan Røikjer j.roeikjaer@rn.dk
Lecturers:
Prof Rayaz Malik (Weill Cornell Medicine, Qatar), ass prof Ionannis Petropolous (Weill Cornell Medicine, Qatar),
Professor Páll Karlsson, Aarhus University, ass prof Johan Røikjer, HST-AAU, professor Niels Ejskjaer, Steno Diabetes Center North Denmark
ECTS: 0.75
Time: Autumn 2025
Place: Aalborg University
Zip code: 9220
City: Aalborg
Maximal number of participants: 25
Deadline: Date Month Year
Important information concerning PhD courses:
There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course.
Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.
We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.
To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.
For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at aauphd@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.
Description:
This PhD-course will provide the participant with deep insights into cutting-edge methodologies and future research strategies for diabetic neuropathy at an international and elite level.
The participant will receive an expert overview of the collective field, clinically and research-wise – and there will be ample time to network and talk one-to-on to the faculty.Overall the focus will be on robust clinical endpoints (robust specific-senstive measurements), that are so crucial for timely neuropathy prevention, treatment and evaluation and this is the core of this course.
Prerequisites:
Physiological and clinical understanding
Form of evaluation:
Quizz at the end of the PhD course.
Key literature:
Articles distributed in relation to the PhD course.
Organizer:
Prof. Niels Ejskjær ejskjaer@dcm.aau.dk and ass prof Johan Røikjer j.roeikjaer@rn.dk
Lecturers:
Prof Rayaz Malik (Weill Cornell Medicine, Qatar), ass prof Ionannis Petropolous (Weill Cornell Medicine, Qatar),
Professor Páll Karlsson, Aarhus University, ass prof Johan Røikjer, HST-AAU, professor Niels Ejskjaer, Steno Diabetes Center North Denmark
ECTS: 0.75
Time: Autumn 2025
Place: Aalborg University
Zip code: 9220
City: Aalborg
Maximal number of participants: 25
Deadline: Date Month Year
Important information concerning PhD courses:
There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course.
Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.
We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.
To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.
For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at aauphd@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.
- Teacher: Johan Røikjer
Welcome to Development and implementation of machine learning models for dynamic risk prediction models in health care applications
Description:
Traditional risk prediction generates a risk estimate at a defined timepoint a patient’s trajectory, for example the risk of death within 30 days following a surgical procedure.
In contrast, dynamic risk prediction enables prediction of risk at any time point. This allows to continuously monitor a patient’s risk profile and forms the basis for intervention if the predicted risk increases.
In this course, we will explore methodological and technical solutions, as well as corresponding challenges, for developing and implementing such solutions in health care.
The course includes the following topics:
1) Data management: This part of the course considers the challenges of preparing heterogenous longitudinal health data for prediction.
We will cover the various steps involved in this process, including data formatting, feature engineering, and splitting strategies for model validation.
This will include discussion about how to handle irregularly sampled health data, data leakage, class imbalance, temporal robustness, normalisation, and other potential biases.
2) Modelling: In this part of the course, participants will be led through the process of building such models.
We will introduce both basic and more advanced dynamic machine learning prediction algorithms, such as gradient tree boosting, random forest, and LSTM and discuss issues related to performance metrics and hyperparameter optimization, for example Bayesian optimization.
3) Implementation: In the last part of the course, we will consider the challenges associated with the implementation of predictive tools in the clinic.
This includes technical aspects about hosting, user interface, and access to live data, including an introduction to the FHIR standard.
Regulatory and organisational issues will also be discussed. During the project the participants will get hands on experience covering realistic scenarios related to the subjects discussed.
This will include data management of representative data sets, training models and hands on introduction to the FHIR set-up.
Key literature:
Tomašev, N. et al. Use of deep learning to develop continuous-risk models for adverse event prediction from electronic health records. Nature Protocols (2021) doi:10.1038/s41596-021-00513-5.
Vesteghem, C. et al. Dynamic risk prediction of 30-day mortality in patients with advanced lung cancer: Comparing five machine learning approaches. Under review.
Organizer:
Programme manager Charles Vesteghem, charles.vesteghem@rn.dk
Professor Martin Bøgsted, martin.boegsted@rn.dk
Lecturers:
Anne Krogh Nøhr, Charles Vesteghem, Heidi Søgaard Christensen, Hendrik Knoche,
Ida Burchardt Egendal, Mads Lause Mogensen, Rasmus Brøndum,
Signe Bjerregaard-Michelsen, Simon Christian Dahl
ECTS: 3.0
Time: 16., 17., 18., 19. June - 2025
Place: Aalborg University, SUND AAU - TBA
Zip code: 9200
City: Gistrup
Maximal number of participants: 50
Deadline: 26/05/2025
Important information concerning PhD courses:
The participants are expected to have basic knowledge on regression analysis as well as programming experience in a statistical software tool, such as R or Python.
The workshop will be held using Python and limited support will be provided for other programming languages.
There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up.
Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days.
Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.
We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.
To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.
For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at aauphd@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.
Description:
Traditional risk prediction generates a risk estimate at a defined timepoint a patient’s trajectory, for example the risk of death within 30 days following a surgical procedure.
In contrast, dynamic risk prediction enables prediction of risk at any time point. This allows to continuously monitor a patient’s risk profile and forms the basis for intervention if the predicted risk increases.
In this course, we will explore methodological and technical solutions, as well as corresponding challenges, for developing and implementing such solutions in health care.
The course includes the following topics:
1) Data management: This part of the course considers the challenges of preparing heterogenous longitudinal health data for prediction.
We will cover the various steps involved in this process, including data formatting, feature engineering, and splitting strategies for model validation.
This will include discussion about how to handle irregularly sampled health data, data leakage, class imbalance, temporal robustness, normalisation, and other potential biases.
2) Modelling: In this part of the course, participants will be led through the process of building such models.
We will introduce both basic and more advanced dynamic machine learning prediction algorithms, such as gradient tree boosting, random forest, and LSTM and discuss issues related to performance metrics and hyperparameter optimization, for example Bayesian optimization.
3) Implementation: In the last part of the course, we will consider the challenges associated with the implementation of predictive tools in the clinic.
This includes technical aspects about hosting, user interface, and access to live data, including an introduction to the FHIR standard.
Regulatory and organisational issues will also be discussed. During the project the participants will get hands on experience covering realistic scenarios related to the subjects discussed.
This will include data management of representative data sets, training models and hands on introduction to the FHIR set-up.
Key literature:
Tomašev, N. et al. Use of deep learning to develop continuous-risk models for adverse event prediction from electronic health records. Nature Protocols (2021) doi:10.1038/s41596-021-00513-5.
Vesteghem, C. et al. Dynamic risk prediction of 30-day mortality in patients with advanced lung cancer: Comparing five machine learning approaches. Under review.
Organizer:
Programme manager Charles Vesteghem, charles.vesteghem@rn.dk
Professor Martin Bøgsted, martin.boegsted@rn.dk
Lecturers:
Anne Krogh Nøhr, Charles Vesteghem, Heidi Søgaard Christensen, Hendrik Knoche,
Ida Burchardt Egendal, Mads Lause Mogensen, Rasmus Brøndum,
Signe Bjerregaard-Michelsen, Simon Christian Dahl
ECTS: 3.0
Time: 16., 17., 18., 19. June - 2025
Place: Aalborg University, SUND AAU - TBA
Zip code: 9200
City: Gistrup
Maximal number of participants: 50
Deadline: 26/05/2025
Important information concerning PhD courses:
The participants are expected to have basic knowledge on regression analysis as well as programming experience in a statistical software tool, such as R or Python.
The workshop will be held using Python and limited support will be provided for other programming languages.
There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up.
Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days.
Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.
We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.
To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.
For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at aauphd@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.
- Teacher: Signe Bjerregaard-Michelsen
- Teacher: Martin Bøgsted
- Teacher: Heidi Søgaard Christensen
- Teacher: Simon Christian Dahl
- Teacher: Ida Burchardt Egendal
- Teacher: Hendrik Knoche
- Teacher: Anne Krogh Nøhr
Welcome to Epidemiology - Basic Principles (2025)
Description:
This course deals with basic principles of epidemiology and will prepare the students for further courses in advanced epidemiology. The course will consist of lectures and group work based on scientific papers.
The main themes are:
Prevalence and incidence measures and measures of associations
Observational design, including aggregated, cross-sectional, cohort, and case-control studies
Experimental studies (randomized controlled trials)
Sources of information for epidemiological studies with concepts of precision and validity
Systematic errors in epidemiology, including bias and confounding
Interactions
Applications of epidemiology in different areas, including clinical epidemiology
Prerequisites:
None
Form of evaluation:
Participating in group discussions
Key literature: TBA
Organizer: Henrik Bøggild, PhD, associate professor
Lecturers: Marie Germund Nielsen, PhD, postdoc, Peter Brønnum Nielsen, PhD, senior researcher and Henrik Bøggild, PhD, associate professor
ECTS: 2
Time: June 2025
Place: Room 405 – Forskningens Hus, Sdr. Skovvej 15
Zip code: 9000
City: Aalborg
Maximal number of participants: 25
Deadline: Date Month Year
Important information concerning PhD courses:
There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.
We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.
To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.
For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at aauphd@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.
Description:
This course deals with basic principles of epidemiology and will prepare the students for further courses in advanced epidemiology. The course will consist of lectures and group work based on scientific papers.
The main themes are:
Prevalence and incidence measures and measures of associations
Observational design, including aggregated, cross-sectional, cohort, and case-control studies
Experimental studies (randomized controlled trials)
Sources of information for epidemiological studies with concepts of precision and validity
Systematic errors in epidemiology, including bias and confounding
Interactions
Applications of epidemiology in different areas, including clinical epidemiology
Prerequisites:
None
Form of evaluation:
Participating in group discussions
Key literature: TBA
Organizer: Henrik Bøggild, PhD, associate professor
Lecturers: Marie Germund Nielsen, PhD, postdoc, Peter Brønnum Nielsen, PhD, senior researcher and Henrik Bøggild, PhD, associate professor
ECTS: 2
Time: June 2025
Place: Room 405 – Forskningens Hus, Sdr. Skovvej 15
Zip code: 9000
City: Aalborg
Maximal number of participants: 25
Deadline: Date Month Year
Important information concerning PhD courses:
There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.
We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.
To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.
For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at aauphd@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.
- Teacher: Henrik Bøggild
- Teacher: Marie Germund Nielsen
- Teacher: Peter Brønnum Nielsen
Welcome to clinical cancer research – from laboratory to bedside
Description:
This PhD course is offered by the Doctoral School of Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology, Aalborg University and Clinical Cancer Research Center, Aalborg University Hospital
This PhD course is aimed at PhD students working within the field of translational and clinical cancer research. The course will touch on several topics related to translational cancer research, including basic science methodologies, statistics and bioinformatics, and the key points in clinical trials. The basic science lectures touch upon molecular pathology, tumour heterogeneity, molecular biology as well as the currently used methods to elucidate these topics. The bioinformatic lectures will focus on workflows for personalized medicine, interpretation of sequencing data, and clinical implications. Data management, AI and meta research will be a part of these lectures. The clinical lectures will discuss current clinical questions and evidence for PM.
Organizer:
Associate Professor Laurids Østergaard Poulsen, email: laop@rn.dk
Associate Professor Stine Dam Henriksen email: stdh@rn.dk
Secretary assistant Lise Tordrup Elkjær, lit@rn.d
Clinical Cancer Research Center, Aalborg University Hospital
Lecturers:
Stine Dam Henriksen, Laurids Ø. Poulsen, Ole Thorlacius-Ussing, Morten Ladekarl, Weronika Szejniuk, Lone Sunde, Ida Holm, Lykke Grubach, Martin Bøgsted, Mads Sønderkær, Hanne Due, Britt E. Laursen, Bent Honoré, Helle D. Zacho, Benjamin Emil Stubbe
ECTS: 2.25
Time: 6 - 8 October 2025
Place: Aalborg University
Zip code: 9220
City: Aalborg
Maximal number of participants: 15
Deadline: 15 September 2025
Important information concerning PhD courses:
There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.
We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.
To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.
For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at aauphd@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.
Description:
This PhD course is offered by the Doctoral School of Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology, Aalborg University and Clinical Cancer Research Center, Aalborg University Hospital
This PhD course is aimed at PhD students working within the field of translational and clinical cancer research. The course will touch on several topics related to translational cancer research, including basic science methodologies, statistics and bioinformatics, and the key points in clinical trials. The basic science lectures touch upon molecular pathology, tumour heterogeneity, molecular biology as well as the currently used methods to elucidate these topics. The bioinformatic lectures will focus on workflows for personalized medicine, interpretation of sequencing data, and clinical implications. Data management, AI and meta research will be a part of these lectures. The clinical lectures will discuss current clinical questions and evidence for PM.
Organizer:
Associate Professor Laurids Østergaard Poulsen, email: laop@rn.dk
Associate Professor Stine Dam Henriksen email: stdh@rn.dk
Secretary assistant Lise Tordrup Elkjær, lit@rn.d
Clinical Cancer Research Center, Aalborg University Hospital
Lecturers:
Stine Dam Henriksen, Laurids Ø. Poulsen, Ole Thorlacius-Ussing, Morten Ladekarl, Weronika Szejniuk, Lone Sunde, Ida Holm, Lykke Grubach, Martin Bøgsted, Mads Sønderkær, Hanne Due, Britt E. Laursen, Bent Honoré, Helle D. Zacho, Benjamin Emil Stubbe
ECTS: 2.25
Time: 6 - 8 October 2025
Place: Aalborg University
Zip code: 9220
City: Aalborg
Maximal number of participants: 15
Deadline: 15 September 2025
Important information concerning PhD courses:
There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.
We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.
To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.
For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at aauphd@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.
- Teacher: Lise Tordrup Elkjær
- Teacher: Laurids Østergaard Poulsen
Welcome to Teaching with problem-based medical cases- theoretical and practical foundation for case facilitators
Description:
Case facilitation with problem-based learning (PBL) is the central teaching model at Aalborg University Medicine and Medicine with industrial specialization (MedIS).
The aim of problem-based case work is to facilitate learning in ways that mirror the professional practice. This has several advantages, including highlighting the applicability of the material being taught and facilitate active learning, which increases student motivation, engagement, and the final learning outcome.
A feature of problem-based case work is the use of problem triggers placed in a context, e.g. a medical phenomenon. Small groups of students work on the case together: 1) They analyze the problem, 2) identify learning issues for developing an adequate explanation for the phenomenon, 3) follow up with research, and 4) prepare the explanations. When required, they would also determine the course of treatment, action or solution that best address the phenomenon. Focus is on analyzing complex situations with limited information using acquired knowledge and deduction, and learning to understand causalities of biological systems, i.e. the link between symptoms, biological mechanism, clinical outcomes, and applied treatments.
In this way, not only do the students gain knowledge about professional practice, the also come into the mindset of a professional presented with a context to deal with. (Barrows & Tamblyn, 1980)
The case facilitator has a central role in ensuring the optimal outcome of the case-sessions and can “make or break” the sessions. However, the teaching strategy of the case facilitator is vastly different from the role undertaken by a lecturer, and furthermore changes as the students progress. Participants on this course will be given a solid introduction to the theoretical and practical foundation of case facilitation, focusing on our implemented teaching strategies and activities at the Medicine and MedIS bachelor. Please note that this differs from the technique applied on the medicine master level, which we only will touch briefly upon and builds on the bachelor. A special focus is on the role of the case facilitator, and the practicalities of case facilitation, down to the level of what to bring to a session and other experiences. A simulated case session will demonstrate the role of the case facilitator. Successful completion of the course will allow the participants to work as case facilitators at the medicine bachelor level.
Contents of lectures:
· Introduction and theoretical foundation of problem-based case work
· The important role of the case facilitator and the steps of case start and case end facilitation
· Hands-on: Solve case under supervision
· Case facilitator preparation for case sessions
· Good and bad cases, how to edit and make new cases, and future directions of case work
Prerequisites:
None. The course will provide a solid foundation of casework but may also serve as a brush-up course.
Form of evaluation:
Participants are expected to be active during the sessions and exercises.
Key literature:
Notes, literature, and exercise instruction will be distributed at the course
Organizer: Associate Professor Tue Bjerg Bennike, email: tbe@hst.aau.dk
Lecturers:
Associate Professors Patrik Kjærsdam Telléus
Associate Professor Trine Fink
Associate Professor Louiza Bohn Thomsen
Associate Professor Tue Bjerg Bennike
ECTS: 0.75
Time: Wednesday August 20nd 2025, 8:15-16:15
Place: Aalborg University
Zip code: 9220
City: Aalborg
Maximal number of participants: 25
Deadline: 30 July 2025
Important information concerning PhD courses:
There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.
We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.
To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.
For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at aauphd@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.
Description:
Case facilitation with problem-based learning (PBL) is the central teaching model at Aalborg University Medicine and Medicine with industrial specialization (MedIS).
The aim of problem-based case work is to facilitate learning in ways that mirror the professional practice. This has several advantages, including highlighting the applicability of the material being taught and facilitate active learning, which increases student motivation, engagement, and the final learning outcome.
A feature of problem-based case work is the use of problem triggers placed in a context, e.g. a medical phenomenon. Small groups of students work on the case together: 1) They analyze the problem, 2) identify learning issues for developing an adequate explanation for the phenomenon, 3) follow up with research, and 4) prepare the explanations. When required, they would also determine the course of treatment, action or solution that best address the phenomenon. Focus is on analyzing complex situations with limited information using acquired knowledge and deduction, and learning to understand causalities of biological systems, i.e. the link between symptoms, biological mechanism, clinical outcomes, and applied treatments.
In this way, not only do the students gain knowledge about professional practice, the also come into the mindset of a professional presented with a context to deal with. (Barrows & Tamblyn, 1980)
The case facilitator has a central role in ensuring the optimal outcome of the case-sessions and can “make or break” the sessions. However, the teaching strategy of the case facilitator is vastly different from the role undertaken by a lecturer, and furthermore changes as the students progress. Participants on this course will be given a solid introduction to the theoretical and practical foundation of case facilitation, focusing on our implemented teaching strategies and activities at the Medicine and MedIS bachelor. Please note that this differs from the technique applied on the medicine master level, which we only will touch briefly upon and builds on the bachelor. A special focus is on the role of the case facilitator, and the practicalities of case facilitation, down to the level of what to bring to a session and other experiences. A simulated case session will demonstrate the role of the case facilitator. Successful completion of the course will allow the participants to work as case facilitators at the medicine bachelor level.
Contents of lectures:
· Introduction and theoretical foundation of problem-based case work
· The important role of the case facilitator and the steps of case start and case end facilitation
· Hands-on: Solve case under supervision
· Case facilitator preparation for case sessions
· Good and bad cases, how to edit and make new cases, and future directions of case work
Prerequisites:
None. The course will provide a solid foundation of casework but may also serve as a brush-up course.
Form of evaluation:
Participants are expected to be active during the sessions and exercises.
Key literature:
Notes, literature, and exercise instruction will be distributed at the course
Organizer: Associate Professor Tue Bjerg Bennike, email: tbe@hst.aau.dk
Lecturers:
Associate Professors Patrik Kjærsdam Telléus
Associate Professor Trine Fink
Associate Professor Louiza Bohn Thomsen
Associate Professor Tue Bjerg Bennike
ECTS: 0.75
Time: Wednesday August 20nd 2025, 8:15-16:15
Place: Aalborg University
Zip code: 9220
City: Aalborg
Maximal number of participants: 25
Deadline: 30 July 2025
Important information concerning PhD courses:
There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.
We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.
To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.
For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at aauphd@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.
- Teacher: Tue Bjerg Bennike
- Teacher: Trine Fink
- Teacher: Patrik Kristoffer Kjærsdam Telléus
- Teacher: Louiza Bohn Thomsen
Welcome to MACHINE LEARNING IN HEALTH TECHNOLOGY - FROM BASIC KNOWLEDGE TO APPLICATION OF MACHINE LEARNING
Description:
Do you want to get into machine learning but do not know where to start? This is a 3-day course with a
practical approach to machine learning directed to PhD students at the Faculty of Medicine. The course
includes two days of lectures from basics about machine learning to application of models and critical
interpretation of the results. Students will be able to work on their own data (or data provided by the
lecturers) based on learnings from the first two days and on the third day, results, and plans for optimizing
their results will be discussed.
The content of the course is:
· Getting started with machine learning
· Extracting information from data and identifying the most relevant sources (Feature extraction and reduction of feature space)
· Classification and regression models
· Evaluating the performance of a model
· Working with own data
The lecturers will use Python in teaching, but the principles and concepts are easily transferred to other
environments, such as, R, MATLAB, etc.
Prerequisites:
An education in health sciences and basic knowledge about statistical concepts.
Form of evaluation:
The student will be evaluated individually through their work with own data or data provided by the lecturers.
Key literature:
Links to pre read distributed in Moodle by the different lecturers in due time before the course.
Organizer: Associate Professor Thomas Kronborg Larsen, email: tkl@hst.aau.dk
Lecturers: Associate Professor Thomas Kronborg Larsen, Associate Professor Lasse Riis Østergaard
ECTS: 2.0
Time:
12/11/2025
13/11/2025
12/12/2025
Place: Aalborg University
Zip code: 9220
City: Aalborg
Maximal number of participants: 25
Important information concerning PhD courses:
There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course.
Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.
We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.
To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.
For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at aauphd@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.
Description:
Do you want to get into machine learning but do not know where to start? This is a 3-day course with a
practical approach to machine learning directed to PhD students at the Faculty of Medicine. The course
includes two days of lectures from basics about machine learning to application of models and critical
interpretation of the results. Students will be able to work on their own data (or data provided by the
lecturers) based on learnings from the first two days and on the third day, results, and plans for optimizing
their results will be discussed.
The content of the course is:
· Getting started with machine learning
· Extracting information from data and identifying the most relevant sources (Feature extraction and reduction of feature space)
· Classification and regression models
· Evaluating the performance of a model
· Working with own data
The lecturers will use Python in teaching, but the principles and concepts are easily transferred to other
environments, such as, R, MATLAB, etc.
Prerequisites:
An education in health sciences and basic knowledge about statistical concepts.
Form of evaluation:
The student will be evaluated individually through their work with own data or data provided by the lecturers.
Key literature:
Links to pre read distributed in Moodle by the different lecturers in due time before the course.
Organizer: Associate Professor Thomas Kronborg Larsen, email: tkl@hst.aau.dk
Lecturers: Associate Professor Thomas Kronborg Larsen, Associate Professor Lasse Riis Østergaard
ECTS: 2.0
Time:
12/11/2025
13/11/2025
12/12/2025
Place: Aalborg University
Zip code: 9220
City: Aalborg
Maximal number of participants: 25
Important information concerning PhD courses:
There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course.
Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.
We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.
To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.
For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at aauphd@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.
- Teacher: Thomas Kronborg Larsen
- Teacher: Lasse Riis Østergaard
Welcome to Advances in the neural control of movements (2025)
Description:
Controlling human movement involves intrinsic neurophysiological features that modulate motor actions. Motor actions occur predominantly against some type of mechanical resistance and/or environmental interaction. It has become evident that a true understanding of human movement requires one to gather knowledge in human neurophysiology and neuromechanics.
Therefore, this course has two aims: 1) to provide a basic background on movement neurophysiology and neuromechanics, integrating the two areas to offer a global understanding on movement control, and 2) to provide students with the latest trends in research on neural control of movements, both in mechanical and physiological terms. In this course, we will offer the possibility to integrate the understanding of movement execution with its neural foundation, to determine the timing and weighting of commands in the central and peripheral nervous system, and how mechanical constraints affect movement control.
Topics covered in the course will include basic physiological and mechanical factors of movement control; novel methods in neurophysiology and neuromechanics research; control of human locomotion and cyclical movements; control of upper limb movements (reaching and grasping), and perspectives in neurorehabilitation. Students will have the opportunity to reflect on these research trends and discuss the potential use of neurophysiological measurements in their own PhD studies by performing presentations during the course.
Prerequisites:
A basic background within anatomy and physiology is desirable. Knowledge in movement biomechanics is desirable, but not necessary.
Form of evaluation:
Students will be asked to make a presentation integrating the content from lectures to solving aspects of their PhD projects. The three lecturers will be present during the presentations, maximizing the possibility of providing useful feedback to the students.
Key literature:
Selected papers and book chapters will be provided to the participants shortly before the course.
Organizer:
Associate Professor Anderson Oliveira, email: oliveira@mp.aau.dk
Professor Strahinja Dosen, e-mail: sdosen@hst.aau.dk
Lecturers:
Associate Professor Anderson Oliveira
Professor Strahinja Dosen
ECTS: 2.0
Time: November 2025
Place: Aalborg University
Zip code: 9220
City: Aalborg
Maximal number of participants: 25
Deadline: Date Month Year
Important information concerning PhD courses:
There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.
We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.
To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.
For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at aauphd@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.
Description:
Controlling human movement involves intrinsic neurophysiological features that modulate motor actions. Motor actions occur predominantly against some type of mechanical resistance and/or environmental interaction. It has become evident that a true understanding of human movement requires one to gather knowledge in human neurophysiology and neuromechanics.
Therefore, this course has two aims: 1) to provide a basic background on movement neurophysiology and neuromechanics, integrating the two areas to offer a global understanding on movement control, and 2) to provide students with the latest trends in research on neural control of movements, both in mechanical and physiological terms. In this course, we will offer the possibility to integrate the understanding of movement execution with its neural foundation, to determine the timing and weighting of commands in the central and peripheral nervous system, and how mechanical constraints affect movement control.
Topics covered in the course will include basic physiological and mechanical factors of movement control; novel methods in neurophysiology and neuromechanics research; control of human locomotion and cyclical movements; control of upper limb movements (reaching and grasping), and perspectives in neurorehabilitation. Students will have the opportunity to reflect on these research trends and discuss the potential use of neurophysiological measurements in their own PhD studies by performing presentations during the course.
Prerequisites:
A basic background within anatomy and physiology is desirable. Knowledge in movement biomechanics is desirable, but not necessary.
Form of evaluation:
Students will be asked to make a presentation integrating the content from lectures to solving aspects of their PhD projects. The three lecturers will be present during the presentations, maximizing the possibility of providing useful feedback to the students.
Key literature:
Selected papers and book chapters will be provided to the participants shortly before the course.
Organizer:
Associate Professor Anderson Oliveira, email: oliveira@mp.aau.dk
Professor Strahinja Dosen, e-mail: sdosen@hst.aau.dk
Lecturers:
Associate Professor Anderson Oliveira
Professor Strahinja Dosen
ECTS: 2.0
Time: November 2025
Place: Aalborg University
Zip code: 9220
City: Aalborg
Maximal number of participants: 25
Deadline: Date Month Year
Important information concerning PhD courses:
There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.
We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.
To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.
For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at aauphd@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.
- Teacher: Strahinja Dosen
- Teacher: Anderson de Souza Castelo Oliveira
Welcome to ANRES 2025 – 12th Aalborg symposium on the advances in neuro-physiology and neural rehabilitation engineering of movement
Description:
The neurophysiology of movement and neural rehabilitation of movement are rapidly developing research areas. The course focuses on neural engineering solutions for rehabilitation of people suffering from damage to or disease in the central or peripheral nervous system. This course is organized biannually and has a focus on disseminating the most relevant and recent achievements within the area. The course will include a series of internationally recognized speakers and a series of speakers from Aalborg University that are experts within the field. There will be a strong emphasis on providing time for interaction between the speakers and participants. The detailed agenda of the course will be provided on the course website. Main topics can include animal or human models, neurophysiology of movement, neuroplasticity, neuromodulation, rehabilitation and assistive technologies (e.g. FES, BCI, robotics, biofeedback), assessment technologies (e.g., fMRI, TMS, electrophysiology) and other timely topics.
Prerequisites:
The course targets PhD students working within the areas of motor control, neural rehabilitation engineering or other students with interests in this research area. The course is repeated every two years with a different focus, thus participation in the previous edition does not preclude participation in this edition.
Form of evaluation:
The students must be present at the symposium. A poster session will be organized during the symposium, and the students should bring a poster of their own work (it can be a poster presented at another conference or meeting).
Key literature:
Relevant papers and book chapters related to the specific talks will be announced shortly before the course.
Organizer:
Associate Professor Erika G. Spaich, email: espaich@hst.aau.dk
Associate Professor Andrew J.T. Stevenson, email: ajts@hst.aau.dk
Lecturers:
Organisers, invited lecturers and lecturers from HST
ECTS: 1.0
Time: 23 - 24 October 2025
Place: Aalborg University
Zip code: 9220
City: Aalborg
Maximal number of participants: 25
Deadline: 2 October
Important information concerning PhD courses:
There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.
We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.
To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.
For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at aauphd@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.
Description:
The neurophysiology of movement and neural rehabilitation of movement are rapidly developing research areas. The course focuses on neural engineering solutions for rehabilitation of people suffering from damage to or disease in the central or peripheral nervous system. This course is organized biannually and has a focus on disseminating the most relevant and recent achievements within the area. The course will include a series of internationally recognized speakers and a series of speakers from Aalborg University that are experts within the field. There will be a strong emphasis on providing time for interaction between the speakers and participants. The detailed agenda of the course will be provided on the course website. Main topics can include animal or human models, neurophysiology of movement, neuroplasticity, neuromodulation, rehabilitation and assistive technologies (e.g. FES, BCI, robotics, biofeedback), assessment technologies (e.g., fMRI, TMS, electrophysiology) and other timely topics.
Prerequisites:
The course targets PhD students working within the areas of motor control, neural rehabilitation engineering or other students with interests in this research area. The course is repeated every two years with a different focus, thus participation in the previous edition does not preclude participation in this edition.
Form of evaluation:
The students must be present at the symposium. A poster session will be organized during the symposium, and the students should bring a poster of their own work (it can be a poster presented at another conference or meeting).
Key literature:
Relevant papers and book chapters related to the specific talks will be announced shortly before the course.
Organizer:
Associate Professor Erika G. Spaich, email: espaich@hst.aau.dk
Associate Professor Andrew J.T. Stevenson, email: ajts@hst.aau.dk
Lecturers:
Organisers, invited lecturers and lecturers from HST
ECTS: 1.0
Time: 23 - 24 October 2025
Place: Aalborg University
Zip code: 9220
City: Aalborg
Maximal number of participants: 25
Deadline: 2 October
Important information concerning PhD courses:
There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.
We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.
To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.
For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at aauphd@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.
- Teacher: Erika G. Spaich
- Teacher: Andrew James Thomas Stevenson
Welcome to Translational neurobiology of the pain system XXX - Mechanisms and biomarkers in nociceptive neuropathic and nociplastic pain (2025)
Description:
This is the thirtieth annual international Ph.D. course on the translational neurobiology of the pain system. The purpose of the course is to introduce different aspects of the neurobiology of the pain system and to initiate new co-operation in interdisciplinary pain research. A key challenge in the pain field is to detect the pain type and involved mechanisms. This year the course will focus on translational aspects of different mechanisms in nociceptive, neuropathic and nociplastic pain. In particular, novel biomarkers will be discussed (e.g. neurophysiological, psychophysical, or biomedical) as well as the requirements for suitable biomarkers. The lectures will be given by staff from Center for Neuroplasticity and Pain (CNAP, Aalborg University), and by invited international key scientists within the area. The participants will have a chance to present posters relevant to the theme.
Fee
A participation fee will be charged for catering (amount TBA).
Prerequisites:
A basic understanding of pain mechanisms, for update see Textbook of Pain, Section 1: Neurobiology of Pain.
Form of evaluation:
The course will end with a multiple-choice evaluation with questions related to all topics of the course.
Key literature:
Selected papers and book chapters will be announced to the participants shortly before the course.
Organizer: Professor Thomas Graven-Nielsen, email: tgn@hst.aau.dk
Lecturers: Invited internal and external speakers
ECTS: 1.0
Time: Date Month Year
Place: Aalborg University
Zip code: 9220
City: Aalborg
Maximal number of participants: 25
Deadline: Date Month Year
Important information concerning PhD courses:
There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.
We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.
To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.
For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at aauphd@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.
Description:
This is the thirtieth annual international Ph.D. course on the translational neurobiology of the pain system. The purpose of the course is to introduce different aspects of the neurobiology of the pain system and to initiate new co-operation in interdisciplinary pain research. A key challenge in the pain field is to detect the pain type and involved mechanisms. This year the course will focus on translational aspects of different mechanisms in nociceptive, neuropathic and nociplastic pain. In particular, novel biomarkers will be discussed (e.g. neurophysiological, psychophysical, or biomedical) as well as the requirements for suitable biomarkers. The lectures will be given by staff from Center for Neuroplasticity and Pain (CNAP, Aalborg University), and by invited international key scientists within the area. The participants will have a chance to present posters relevant to the theme.
Fee
A participation fee will be charged for catering (amount TBA).
Prerequisites:
A basic understanding of pain mechanisms, for update see Textbook of Pain, Section 1: Neurobiology of Pain.
Form of evaluation:
The course will end with a multiple-choice evaluation with questions related to all topics of the course.
Key literature:
Selected papers and book chapters will be announced to the participants shortly before the course.
Organizer: Professor Thomas Graven-Nielsen, email: tgn@hst.aau.dk
Lecturers: Invited internal and external speakers
ECTS: 1.0
Time: Date Month Year
Place: Aalborg University
Zip code: 9220
City: Aalborg
Maximal number of participants: 25
Deadline: Date Month Year
Important information concerning PhD courses:
There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.
We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.
To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.
For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at aauphd@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.
- Teacher: Thomas Graven-Nielsen
Welcome to Research competences for neuro-modulation and oscillations in pain 2025
Description:
Brain circuitries, oscillations, and neuromodulation in pain, I (UoB, CNRS, UKHD): The introductory course covers the basic biology of brain circuitries, neural functions, functional interrogation of brain pathways in pain and how these undergo plasticity in the transition to chronic pain. DCs will also be introduced to key methods relevant to these topics, such as viral approaches for labelling circuitry and optogenetic/chemogenetic approaches for manipulating pathways. A practical session introduces different neuromodulation techniques used in rodents.
Human mechanisms of brain oscillations and neuromodulation in pain, I (AAU, UCL, TUM): This course will focus on neurophysiological and psychophysical assessment of the nociceptive systems in humans. It will cover the mechanism and the rationale of the main neurophysiological and psychophysics tools used to assess loss and gain of function of the human somatosensory system and the nociceptive pathways. Advanced techniques will be presented, and a critical understanding of the limitations and advantages will be explored.
DCs will gain insight into the usefulness of EEG (evoked potentials, steady state, excitability, and connectivity measures), evoked potentials, nerve conduction and autonomic nervous system studies, as well as quantitative sensory testing. These concepts are key in the design of experiments, as these are both used as diagnostic tools and outcome measures.
Brain oscillations and neuromodulation in people with chronic pain, I (INSERM, AAU, UCL, TUM): Chronic pain definition, burden, main mechanisms, and principles of pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments will be covered. The different types of pain-mechanistic descriptors, key pain syndromes, their diagnostic approach, and main pharmacological and non-pharmacological possibilities will be presented. Emphasis will be made on the increasing robustness of data supporting non-invasive pain treatment strategies such as non-invasive neuromodulation, and their current limitations. What is a clinically relevant pain improvement will be discussed from a patient perspective, and how the current treatment efficacy can be ameliorated, such as by better patient phenotyping, personalized treatment, and the option to use neurophysiological biomarkers of treatment response to improve therapeutic efficacy. DCs will gain knowledge and a critical view of the types of pain syndromes, their main therapeutic approaches and where they fail.
Project Management (AAU): Aims at providing the basic competences, methodologies, and technical tools for managing a project. Risk Management aspects will be discussed. The course will then dwell upon the organisation of project team meetings, the decision-making process, adaptability, and the conflict resolution techniques. Tools for leading and monitoring a project will be introduced: basic indicators, planned-, earned-value, and milestone trend analysis.
TSC2: How to conduct interdisciplinary research (AAU): All phases of an interdisciplinary collaboration – from project planning to publication – include a much higher degree of communication, data exchange and trust than classic monodisciplinary collaborations. Through case studies and group work, DCs will learn how to analyse data from different research disciplines and engage in an interdisciplinary discussion about their findings. DCs will discuss the power of networking and interpersonal awareness, along with optimal conditions of all phases of collaboration and pitfalls that may arise. Finally, best ways of publishing and funding interdisciplinary projects will be discussed
Prerequisites:
Form of evaluation:
Key literature:
Organizer:
Professor Thomas Graven Nielsen, email: tgn@hst.aau.dk
Lecturers: TBA
ECTS: 4.0
Time: Date Month Year
Place: Aalborg University
Zip code: 9220
City: Aalborg
Maximal number of participants: 25
Deadline: Date Month Year
Important information concerning PhD courses:
There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.
We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.
To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.
For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at aauphd@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.
Description:
Brain circuitries, oscillations, and neuromodulation in pain, I (UoB, CNRS, UKHD): The introductory course covers the basic biology of brain circuitries, neural functions, functional interrogation of brain pathways in pain and how these undergo plasticity in the transition to chronic pain. DCs will also be introduced to key methods relevant to these topics, such as viral approaches for labelling circuitry and optogenetic/chemogenetic approaches for manipulating pathways. A practical session introduces different neuromodulation techniques used in rodents.
Human mechanisms of brain oscillations and neuromodulation in pain, I (AAU, UCL, TUM): This course will focus on neurophysiological and psychophysical assessment of the nociceptive systems in humans. It will cover the mechanism and the rationale of the main neurophysiological and psychophysics tools used to assess loss and gain of function of the human somatosensory system and the nociceptive pathways. Advanced techniques will be presented, and a critical understanding of the limitations and advantages will be explored.
DCs will gain insight into the usefulness of EEG (evoked potentials, steady state, excitability, and connectivity measures), evoked potentials, nerve conduction and autonomic nervous system studies, as well as quantitative sensory testing. These concepts are key in the design of experiments, as these are both used as diagnostic tools and outcome measures.
Brain oscillations and neuromodulation in people with chronic pain, I (INSERM, AAU, UCL, TUM): Chronic pain definition, burden, main mechanisms, and principles of pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments will be covered. The different types of pain-mechanistic descriptors, key pain syndromes, their diagnostic approach, and main pharmacological and non-pharmacological possibilities will be presented. Emphasis will be made on the increasing robustness of data supporting non-invasive pain treatment strategies such as non-invasive neuromodulation, and their current limitations. What is a clinically relevant pain improvement will be discussed from a patient perspective, and how the current treatment efficacy can be ameliorated, such as by better patient phenotyping, personalized treatment, and the option to use neurophysiological biomarkers of treatment response to improve therapeutic efficacy. DCs will gain knowledge and a critical view of the types of pain syndromes, their main therapeutic approaches and where they fail.
Project Management (AAU): Aims at providing the basic competences, methodologies, and technical tools for managing a project. Risk Management aspects will be discussed. The course will then dwell upon the organisation of project team meetings, the decision-making process, adaptability, and the conflict resolution techniques. Tools for leading and monitoring a project will be introduced: basic indicators, planned-, earned-value, and milestone trend analysis.
TSC2: How to conduct interdisciplinary research (AAU): All phases of an interdisciplinary collaboration – from project planning to publication – include a much higher degree of communication, data exchange and trust than classic monodisciplinary collaborations. Through case studies and group work, DCs will learn how to analyse data from different research disciplines and engage in an interdisciplinary discussion about their findings. DCs will discuss the power of networking and interpersonal awareness, along with optimal conditions of all phases of collaboration and pitfalls that may arise. Finally, best ways of publishing and funding interdisciplinary projects will be discussed
Prerequisites:
Form of evaluation:
Key literature:
Organizer:
Professor Thomas Graven Nielsen, email: tgn@hst.aau.dk
Lecturers: TBA
ECTS: 4.0
Time: Date Month Year
Place: Aalborg University
Zip code: 9220
City: Aalborg
Maximal number of participants: 25
Deadline: Date Month Year
Important information concerning PhD courses:
There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.
We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.
To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.
For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at aauphd@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.
- Teacher: Thomas Graven-Nielsen
Description:
The course will cover the practical assessment of neuromuscular function and adaptations following training or rehabilitation. The topics covered include: assessment of plasticity in cortical pathways by measures such as I-wave facilitation, motor evoked potential changes as well as cortical inhibition and facilitation using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), assessment of motor unit plasticity using high density electromyography (HD-EMG), assessment of spinal plasticity by measures of the stretch reflex as well as more advanced techniques (reciprocal inhibition, monosynaptic Ia excitation and post-activation depression). The course will be conducted through a combination of lectures as well as laboratory work with a greater emphasis on the laboratory component.
Prerequisites:
A basic background within anatomy, physiology and motor control is desirable.
Form of evaluation:
Laboratory assignments will be completed throughout the course.
Key literature:
Selected papers and book chapters will be provided to the participants shortly before the course.
Organizer:
Associate Professor Andrew J.T. Stevenson, e-mail: ajts@hst.aau.dk
Associate Professor Anderson Oliveira, e-mail: oliveira@mp.aau.dk
Lecturers:
Associate Professor Andrew J.T. Stevenson
Associate Professor Anderson Oliveira
ECTS: 1.5
Time: Date Month Year
Place: Aalborg University
Zip code: 9220
City: Aalborg
Maximal number of participants: 25
Deadline: Date Month Year
Important information concerning PhD courses:
There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.
We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.
To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.
For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at aauphd@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.
The course will cover the practical assessment of neuromuscular function and adaptations following training or rehabilitation. The topics covered include: assessment of plasticity in cortical pathways by measures such as I-wave facilitation, motor evoked potential changes as well as cortical inhibition and facilitation using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), assessment of motor unit plasticity using high density electromyography (HD-EMG), assessment of spinal plasticity by measures of the stretch reflex as well as more advanced techniques (reciprocal inhibition, monosynaptic Ia excitation and post-activation depression). The course will be conducted through a combination of lectures as well as laboratory work with a greater emphasis on the laboratory component.
Prerequisites:
A basic background within anatomy, physiology and motor control is desirable.
Form of evaluation:
Laboratory assignments will be completed throughout the course.
Key literature:
Selected papers and book chapters will be provided to the participants shortly before the course.
Organizer:
Associate Professor Andrew J.T. Stevenson, e-mail: ajts@hst.aau.dk
Associate Professor Anderson Oliveira, e-mail: oliveira@mp.aau.dk
Lecturers:
Associate Professor Andrew J.T. Stevenson
Associate Professor Anderson Oliveira
ECTS: 1.5
Time: Date Month Year
Place: Aalborg University
Zip code: 9220
City: Aalborg
Maximal number of participants: 25
Deadline: Date Month Year
Important information concerning PhD courses:
There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.
We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.
To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.
For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at aauphd@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.
- Teacher: Anderson de Souza Castelo Oliveira
- Teacher: Andrew James Thomas Stevenson
Welcome to Method comparison reliability and agreement 2025
Description:
The course will focus on the importance of method comparison studies when evaluating new clinical and experimental methods. The course will describe how method comparison studies are designed and how obtained results are analysed and described. Application of analytical measures such as Coefficient of Variance, Intra-Class Correlation, differences in means, and Bland-Altman’s limits of agreement, inter-rater reliability, test accuracy and sample size estimation will be discussed. The aim of the course is to provide the participants with a toolbox that enables them to perform and analyse method comparison studies. This advanced course in biostatistics assumes knowledge of basic methods in biostatistics, including the concepts of hypothesis testing, and basic study designs. The course is designed for researchers working in both clinical and experimental settings.
Prerequisites:
Basic knowledge on statistics (e.g. Biostatistics I)
Form of evaluation:
Short project/assignment
Key literature:
Atkinson G, Nevill A. Statistical methods for assessing measurement error (reliability) in variables relevant to sports medicine. Sports Med 1998; 26: 217-238,
Weir JP. Quantifying test-retest reliability using the intraclass correlation coefficient and the SEM. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research 2005; 19: 231–240
Bland JM, Altman DG. Measuring agreement in method comparison studies. Statistical Methods in Medical Research 1999; 8: 135 – 160
And links, datasets and handouts distributed prior to and during the course.
Organizer:
Associate Professor Carsten Dahl Mørch, email: cdahl@hst.aau.dk
Lecturers:
Research Assistant Felipe Rettore Andreis
Associate Professor Carsten Dahl Mørch
ECTS: 1.5
Time: Date Month Year
Place: Aalborg University
Zip code: 9220
City: Aalborg
Maximal number of participants: 25
Deadline: Date Month Year
Important information concerning PhD courses:
There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.
We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.
To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.
For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at aauphd@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.
Description:
The course will focus on the importance of method comparison studies when evaluating new clinical and experimental methods. The course will describe how method comparison studies are designed and how obtained results are analysed and described. Application of analytical measures such as Coefficient of Variance, Intra-Class Correlation, differences in means, and Bland-Altman’s limits of agreement, inter-rater reliability, test accuracy and sample size estimation will be discussed. The aim of the course is to provide the participants with a toolbox that enables them to perform and analyse method comparison studies. This advanced course in biostatistics assumes knowledge of basic methods in biostatistics, including the concepts of hypothesis testing, and basic study designs. The course is designed for researchers working in both clinical and experimental settings.
Prerequisites:
Basic knowledge on statistics (e.g. Biostatistics I)
Form of evaluation:
Short project/assignment
Key literature:
Atkinson G, Nevill A. Statistical methods for assessing measurement error (reliability) in variables relevant to sports medicine. Sports Med 1998; 26: 217-238,
Weir JP. Quantifying test-retest reliability using the intraclass correlation coefficient and the SEM. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research 2005; 19: 231–240
Bland JM, Altman DG. Measuring agreement in method comparison studies. Statistical Methods in Medical Research 1999; 8: 135 – 160
And links, datasets and handouts distributed prior to and during the course.
Organizer:
Associate Professor Carsten Dahl Mørch, email: cdahl@hst.aau.dk
Lecturers:
Research Assistant Felipe Rettore Andreis
Associate Professor Carsten Dahl Mørch
ECTS: 1.5
Time: Date Month Year
Place: Aalborg University
Zip code: 9220
City: Aalborg
Maximal number of participants: 25
Deadline: Date Month Year
Important information concerning PhD courses:
There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.
We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.
To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.
For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at aauphd@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.
- Teacher: Carsten Dahl Mørch
- Teacher: Felipe Rettore Andreis
Welcome to MATLAB for non-engineers - basic data processing and optimization
Description:
Research on biomedical engineering topics usually require the acquisition of biological signals or additional instrumentation that provides continuous time series. For non-engineers, processing those types of data can be time consuming and inaccurate if proper processing methods are not used. Therefore, the goal of this course is to present basic processing tools to analyse biological and non-biological signals.
The course is based on Matlab, one of the most powerful software packages for data recording and analysis in Engineering. The course presents a dynamic format, in which students will have practical experiences regarding the use of Matlab during the lectures. Students will be able to learn Matlab programming by accessing basic instructions through video contents recorded by the lecturer. Moreover, some specific tasks and exercises will be performed in the presence of the lecturer.
This format will offer to students the unique possibility to learn how to perform basic and complex operations with the assistant of the lecturer while generating the data analyses scripts. The course has been designed for PhD students without previous experience on programming on Matlab, such as physiotherapists, medical doctors, pharmacists, psychologists, sports science professionals. The ultimate goal of this PhD course is to provide students with basic yet reliable tools to process data for their own PhD projects.
The course will be divided in four modules
1. Introduction: basic operations and file management (importing, loading, saving files)
2. Data visualization, matrix manipulation
3. Code optimization: reducing processing time and minimizing changes of errors
4. Multi-subject dataset management and basic statistics
Prerequisites:
This course is ideal at students early or midway in their PhD. You should be at least 3 months into your project development. Ideally, students should use their own target data to develop scripts for analysis.
Form of evaluation:
Assignment: Students must present a data analysis pipeline generated using Matlab on the last lecture day. The data should be preferably related to the topic of the PhD project, therefore benefiting the student in the standardization of data processing methods. Detailed explanations of the processing steps and the choices for data analysis, based on appropriate references, should be addressed in the presentation.
Key literature:
To be announced. Readings will be provided via the course webpage.
Organizer: Associate Professor Anderson Oliveira, e-mail: oliveira@mp.aau.dk
Lecturers: Associate Professor Anderson Oliveira
ECTS: 2.5
Time: Date Month Year
Place: Aalborg University
Zip code: 9220
City: Aalborg
Maximal number of participants: 25
Deadline: Date Month Year
Important information concerning PhD courses:
There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.
We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.
To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.
For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at aauphd@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.
Description:
Research on biomedical engineering topics usually require the acquisition of biological signals or additional instrumentation that provides continuous time series. For non-engineers, processing those types of data can be time consuming and inaccurate if proper processing methods are not used. Therefore, the goal of this course is to present basic processing tools to analyse biological and non-biological signals.
The course is based on Matlab, one of the most powerful software packages for data recording and analysis in Engineering. The course presents a dynamic format, in which students will have practical experiences regarding the use of Matlab during the lectures. Students will be able to learn Matlab programming by accessing basic instructions through video contents recorded by the lecturer. Moreover, some specific tasks and exercises will be performed in the presence of the lecturer.
This format will offer to students the unique possibility to learn how to perform basic and complex operations with the assistant of the lecturer while generating the data analyses scripts. The course has been designed for PhD students without previous experience on programming on Matlab, such as physiotherapists, medical doctors, pharmacists, psychologists, sports science professionals. The ultimate goal of this PhD course is to provide students with basic yet reliable tools to process data for their own PhD projects.
The course will be divided in four modules
1. Introduction: basic operations and file management (importing, loading, saving files)
2. Data visualization, matrix manipulation
3. Code optimization: reducing processing time and minimizing changes of errors
4. Multi-subject dataset management and basic statistics
Prerequisites:
This course is ideal at students early or midway in their PhD. You should be at least 3 months into your project development. Ideally, students should use their own target data to develop scripts for analysis.
Form of evaluation:
Assignment: Students must present a data analysis pipeline generated using Matlab on the last lecture day. The data should be preferably related to the topic of the PhD project, therefore benefiting the student in the standardization of data processing methods. Detailed explanations of the processing steps and the choices for data analysis, based on appropriate references, should be addressed in the presentation.
Key literature:
To be announced. Readings will be provided via the course webpage.
Organizer: Associate Professor Anderson Oliveira, e-mail: oliveira@mp.aau.dk
Lecturers: Associate Professor Anderson Oliveira
ECTS: 2.5
Time: Date Month Year
Place: Aalborg University
Zip code: 9220
City: Aalborg
Maximal number of participants: 25
Deadline: Date Month Year
Important information concerning PhD courses:
There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.
We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.
To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.
For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at aauphd@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.
- Teacher: Anderson de Souza Castelo Oliveira
Welcome to Exoskeletons for prevention and rehabilitation
Description:
This PhD course will provide the participants with the current existing knowledge on exoskeletons used for prevention and rehabilitation purposes. The presentations will address both passive and active exoskeletons used for prevention of musculoskeletal disorders due to e.g. excessive load on the low-back or shoulder region as well as rehabilitation after for instance amputation. We will also discuss methods for human-robot interfacing and artificial sensory feedback for exoskeletons.
The PhD course will also include colleagues participating in the Aalborg Robotic Challenge.
Prerequisites:
Physiological and Biomechanical understanding.
Form of evaluation:
Quiz at the end of the PhD course.
Key literature:
Articles distributed in relation to the PhD course.
Organizer:
Professor Pascal Madeleine, email: pm@hst.aau.dk
Professor Strahinja Dosen, email sdosen@hst.aau.dk
Lecturers:
Professor Pascal Madeleine, email: pm@hst.aau.dk
Professor Strahinja Dosen, email sdosen@hst.aau.dk
ECTS: 1.5
Time: 2 - 3 June 2025 (08.15-16.15)
Place: Aalborg University
Zip code: 9220
City: Aalborg
Maximal number of participants: 25
Deadline: 12 May 2025
Important information concerning PhD courses:
There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.
We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.
To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.
For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at aauphd@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.
Description:
This PhD course will provide the participants with the current existing knowledge on exoskeletons used for prevention and rehabilitation purposes. The presentations will address both passive and active exoskeletons used for prevention of musculoskeletal disorders due to e.g. excessive load on the low-back or shoulder region as well as rehabilitation after for instance amputation. We will also discuss methods for human-robot interfacing and artificial sensory feedback for exoskeletons.
The PhD course will also include colleagues participating in the Aalborg Robotic Challenge.
Prerequisites:
Physiological and Biomechanical understanding.
Form of evaluation:
Quiz at the end of the PhD course.
Key literature:
Articles distributed in relation to the PhD course.
Organizer:
Professor Pascal Madeleine, email: pm@hst.aau.dk
Professor Strahinja Dosen, email sdosen@hst.aau.dk
Lecturers:
Professor Pascal Madeleine, email: pm@hst.aau.dk
Professor Strahinja Dosen, email sdosen@hst.aau.dk
ECTS: 1.5
Time: 2 - 3 June 2025 (08.15-16.15)
Place: Aalborg University
Zip code: 9220
City: Aalborg
Maximal number of participants: 25
Deadline: 12 May 2025
Important information concerning PhD courses:
There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.
We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.
To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.
For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at aauphd@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.
- Teacher: Strahinja Dosen
- Teacher: Pascal Max Madeleine
Welcome to Advanced cutaneous stimulation
Description:
In neuroscience, probing of the sensory nervous system often rely on the use of various types of stimuli. Often these stimuli are directed to the skin, thus investigating the cutaneous senses. There are several reasons for choosing cutaneous stimuli, over other somato-sensory senses, or more invasive stimuli, one of which being simplificity, but there are other advantages of cutaneous stimuli which will be introduced. However, there are also several aspects new users must be aware of when using cutaneous stimuli to obtain valid results.
For research, and in aspects also clinically, a variety of different stimulation methods have been developed. These different methods allow the tested of different neural mechanism and fiber populations. However, each method is also associated with some potential pitfalls
In this course a variety of cutaneous stimulation methods will be introduced and used experimentally. The pros and cons of each method will be discussed and the attention points to ensure valid use, will be explained.
This course will consist of classroom lectures as well as practical laboratory workshops.
The following types of stimuli will be introduced during this course:
· Nerve fiber specific electrical stimulation
· Mechanical (von Frey, pinprick)
· Vibrotactile
· Thermal stimuli (thermode, laser)
· Spatial discrimination tasks, like the 2-point discrimination
Due to the experimental workshops, this course is limited to 15 participants.
Prerequisites:
None
Form of evaluation:
Evaluation by written report. Passed/fail.
Key literature:
Notes, literature and exercise instruction will be distributed at the course
Organizer: Associate Professor Steffen Frahm email: ksf@hst.aau.dk
Lecturers:
Associate Professor Steffen Frahm
Associate Professor Carsten Dahl Mørch
Assistant Professor Silvia Lo Vecchio
Associate Professor Saba Gervasio, saba@hst.aau.dk
ECTS: 1.5
Time: Date Month Year
Place: Aalborg University
Zip code: 9220
City: Aalborg
Maximal number of participants: 15
Deadline: Date Month Year
Important information concerning PhD courses:
There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.
We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.
To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.
For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at aauphd@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.
Description:
In neuroscience, probing of the sensory nervous system often rely on the use of various types of stimuli. Often these stimuli are directed to the skin, thus investigating the cutaneous senses. There are several reasons for choosing cutaneous stimuli, over other somato-sensory senses, or more invasive stimuli, one of which being simplificity, but there are other advantages of cutaneous stimuli which will be introduced. However, there are also several aspects new users must be aware of when using cutaneous stimuli to obtain valid results.
For research, and in aspects also clinically, a variety of different stimulation methods have been developed. These different methods allow the tested of different neural mechanism and fiber populations. However, each method is also associated with some potential pitfalls
In this course a variety of cutaneous stimulation methods will be introduced and used experimentally. The pros and cons of each method will be discussed and the attention points to ensure valid use, will be explained.
This course will consist of classroom lectures as well as practical laboratory workshops.
The following types of stimuli will be introduced during this course:
· Nerve fiber specific electrical stimulation
· Mechanical (von Frey, pinprick)
· Vibrotactile
· Thermal stimuli (thermode, laser)
· Spatial discrimination tasks, like the 2-point discrimination
Due to the experimental workshops, this course is limited to 15 participants.
Prerequisites:
None
Form of evaluation:
Evaluation by written report. Passed/fail.
Key literature:
Notes, literature and exercise instruction will be distributed at the course
Organizer: Associate Professor Steffen Frahm email: ksf@hst.aau.dk
Lecturers:
Associate Professor Steffen Frahm
Associate Professor Carsten Dahl Mørch
Assistant Professor Silvia Lo Vecchio
Associate Professor Saba Gervasio, saba@hst.aau.dk
ECTS: 1.5
Time: Date Month Year
Place: Aalborg University
Zip code: 9220
City: Aalborg
Maximal number of participants: 15
Deadline: Date Month Year
Important information concerning PhD courses:
There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.
We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.
To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.
For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at aauphd@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.
- Teacher: Steffen Frahm
- Teacher: Sabata Gervasio
- Teacher: Silvia Lo Vecchio
- Teacher: Carsten Dahl Mørch
Welcome to Practical applications of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) in clinical settings
Description:
This one-day intensive course is designed for doctors, physiotherapists, psychologists, and sports scientists interested in the clinical applications of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), which is a non-invasive cortical stimulation technique able to induce cortical neuroplasticity.
Recent studies have demonstrated promising results in using rTMS to treat psychiatric disorders, neurological conditions, and chronic pain, as well as to improve cognitive performance and athletic performance.
Participants will gain hands-on experience in administering rTMS to several brain targets, such as the primary motor cortex and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex.
The course aims to equip professionals with the skills needed to effectively incorporate rTMS into their clinical practices, enhancing treatment outcomes for a diverse range of patients, healthy individuals, and athletes.
Prerequisites:
Participants should have a basic understanding of neuroanatomy.
Learning objectives:
Learning Outcomes
Students will:
· Gain a comprehensive knowledge of rTMS mechanisms and their clinical applications.
· Develop practical skills in setting up and delivering rTMS to several brain areas.
· Learn to identify appropriate treatment protocols for different conditions.
· Understand safety considerations and contraindications in rTMS treatment.
Form of evaluation:
Participants should have a basic understanding of neuroanatomy.
Key literature:
Selected papers and book chapters to be announced before the course.
Organizer:
Associate Professor Daniel Ciampi de Andrade, email: dca@hst.aau.dk
Postdoc Enrico De Martino, email: edm@hst.aau.dk
Lecturers:
Postdoc Enrico De Martino
ECTS: 0.75
Time: 13 February 2025 (08.15-16.15)
Place: Aalborg University
Zip code: 9220
City: Aalborg
Maximal number of participants: 25
Deadline: 23 January 2025
Important information concerning PhD courses:
There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.
We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.
To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.
For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at aauphd@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.
Description:
This one-day intensive course is designed for doctors, physiotherapists, psychologists, and sports scientists interested in the clinical applications of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), which is a non-invasive cortical stimulation technique able to induce cortical neuroplasticity.
Recent studies have demonstrated promising results in using rTMS to treat psychiatric disorders, neurological conditions, and chronic pain, as well as to improve cognitive performance and athletic performance.
Participants will gain hands-on experience in administering rTMS to several brain targets, such as the primary motor cortex and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex.
The course aims to equip professionals with the skills needed to effectively incorporate rTMS into their clinical practices, enhancing treatment outcomes for a diverse range of patients, healthy individuals, and athletes.
Prerequisites:
Participants should have a basic understanding of neuroanatomy.
Learning objectives:
Learning Outcomes
Students will:
· Gain a comprehensive knowledge of rTMS mechanisms and their clinical applications.
· Develop practical skills in setting up and delivering rTMS to several brain areas.
· Learn to identify appropriate treatment protocols for different conditions.
· Understand safety considerations and contraindications in rTMS treatment.
Form of evaluation:
Participants should have a basic understanding of neuroanatomy.
Key literature:
Selected papers and book chapters to be announced before the course.
Organizer:
Associate Professor Daniel Ciampi de Andrade, email: dca@hst.aau.dk
Postdoc Enrico De Martino, email: edm@hst.aau.dk
Lecturers:
Postdoc Enrico De Martino
ECTS: 0.75
Time: 13 February 2025 (08.15-16.15)
Place: Aalborg University
Zip code: 9220
City: Aalborg
Maximal number of participants: 25
Deadline: 23 January 2025
Important information concerning PhD courses:
There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.
We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.
To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.
For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at aauphd@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.
- Teacher: Daniel Ciampi de Andrade