Welcome to SEVENTH Annual Symposium on health, performance and EXERCISE SCIENCES
Description:
This PhD course will be organized for the seventh time as a continuation of previous symposiums on exercise sciences, physical activity and human performance. This course will provide the audience with insights into research projects within the health and exercise sciences aiming to understand and/or promote physical activity during school and leisure time, at work and at the high-performance level. The course will introduce the PhD students to insights that are relevant across the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities with a focus on development, implementation and evaluation of health and exercise research with different populations. Lectures will cover recruitment and involvement of research participants, co-creation, mixed methods for gathering and analysing health outcomes of exercise, improving exercise efficiency and mental performance, along with novel technologies in sports, and injury prevention in sports and at work.
Internationally recognized speakers as well as speakers from Aalborg University will be invited. A special emphasis will be given to the speaker-student interaction. The detailed agenda of the course will be provided on the course web site in due time. It will be possible to follow the PhD course remotely (all lectures will also be transmitted online).
Key words:
- Face to face and online lectures
- HES ***Mandatory**** (BEN, HCHPO)
Prerequisites:
The students participating in this course should have basic knowledge about health and exercise sciences and work with quantitative and/or qualitative research methods.
Form of evaluation:
Evaluation will be announced at the course
Key literature:
A reading list with relevant papers and book chapters will be announced before the course.
Organizer:
Associate Professor Rogerio Pessoto Hirata, email: rirata@hst.aau.dk
Professor Sine Agergaard, email: sine@hst.aau.dk
Professor Pascal Max Madeleine, email: pm@hst.aau.dk
Lecturers: Organisers, invited national and international speakers and speakers from the Department of Health Science and Technology and Aalborg University Hospital
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 PhD course will be organized for the seventh time as a continuation of previous symposiums on exercise sciences, physical activity and human performance. This course will provide the audience with insights into research projects within the health and exercise sciences aiming to understand and/or promote physical activity during school and leisure time, at work and at the high-performance level. The course will introduce the PhD students to insights that are relevant across the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities with a focus on development, implementation and evaluation of health and exercise research with different populations. Lectures will cover recruitment and involvement of research participants, co-creation, mixed methods for gathering and analysing health outcomes of exercise, improving exercise efficiency and mental performance, along with novel technologies in sports, and injury prevention in sports and at work.
Internationally recognized speakers as well as speakers from Aalborg University will be invited. A special emphasis will be given to the speaker-student interaction. The detailed agenda of the course will be provided on the course web site in due time. It will be possible to follow the PhD course remotely (all lectures will also be transmitted online).
Key words:
- Face to face and online lectures
- HES ***Mandatory**** (BEN, HCHPO)
Prerequisites:
The students participating in this course should have basic knowledge about health and exercise sciences and work with quantitative and/or qualitative research methods.
Form of evaluation:
Evaluation will be announced at the course
Key literature:
A reading list with relevant papers and book chapters will be announced before the course.
Organizer:
Associate Professor Rogerio Pessoto Hirata, email: rirata@hst.aau.dk
Professor Sine Agergaard, email: sine@hst.aau.dk
Professor Pascal Max Madeleine, email: pm@hst.aau.dk
Lecturers: Organisers, invited national and international speakers and speakers from the Department of Health Science and Technology and Aalborg University Hospital
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: Sine Agergaard
- Teacher: Rogerio Pessoto Hirata
- Teacher: Pascal Max Madeleine
Welcome to Components of causal inference with focus on assumptions and confounding control (2025)
Description:
Purpose: You already know that establishing a causal relationship is distinct from observing an association. While individuals who receive the flu vaccine tend to have a lower mortality rate compared to those who do not, we must consider whether this lower mortality is directly attributable to the vaccine or if it arises from other distinctions between the vaccinated and unvaccinated groups. The concept of confounding introduces a pervasive bias when we compare groups that are not fundamentally similar. It represents a substantial challenge to drawing accurate causal conclusions from observational data. Consequently, the course's primary focus revolves around the essential task of mitigating confounding in epidemiological research using various techniques.
Course objectives: This course focus on models for confounding control (or adjustment), their application to epidemiologic data, and the assumptions required to endow the parameter estimates with a causal interpretation. The course introduces participants to a set of methods for confounding control with focus on survival analysis: methods that require measuring confounders and how this could be applied in perspective to the research question of interest. Specifically, the course introduces aspects of directed acyclic graphs, outcome regression, propensity score methods, and inverse-probability weighting of marginal structural models as means for confounding control, and how this can be implemented and analysed in standard statistical software.
(Mandatory course for AAU PhD programme Epidemiology & Biostatistics)
Prerequisites:
Basic training in epidemiology required (eg., the AAU course “Epidemiology – Basic principles” or similar). Basic statistics and basic programming abilities with Stata or R. All participants must bring a laptop with either Stata or R installed.
Key literature:
Organizer:
Peter Brønnum Nielsen, PhD, Assoc. Prof., Department of Clinical Medicine, AAU
Lecturers: Søren Paaske Johnsen, Peter Brønnum Nielsen, Chalotte W. Nicolajsen, +additional
ECTS: 2.5
Time: Date Month Year
Place: SUND building, Aalborg University, Selma Lagerløfs Vej 249
Zip code: 9260
City: Aalborg/Gistrup
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:
Purpose: You already know that establishing a causal relationship is distinct from observing an association. While individuals who receive the flu vaccine tend to have a lower mortality rate compared to those who do not, we must consider whether this lower mortality is directly attributable to the vaccine or if it arises from other distinctions between the vaccinated and unvaccinated groups. The concept of confounding introduces a pervasive bias when we compare groups that are not fundamentally similar. It represents a substantial challenge to drawing accurate causal conclusions from observational data. Consequently, the course's primary focus revolves around the essential task of mitigating confounding in epidemiological research using various techniques.
Course objectives: This course focus on models for confounding control (or adjustment), their application to epidemiologic data, and the assumptions required to endow the parameter estimates with a causal interpretation. The course introduces participants to a set of methods for confounding control with focus on survival analysis: methods that require measuring confounders and how this could be applied in perspective to the research question of interest. Specifically, the course introduces aspects of directed acyclic graphs, outcome regression, propensity score methods, and inverse-probability weighting of marginal structural models as means for confounding control, and how this can be implemented and analysed in standard statistical software.
(Mandatory course for AAU PhD programme Epidemiology & Biostatistics)
Prerequisites:
Basic training in epidemiology required (eg., the AAU course “Epidemiology – Basic principles” or similar). Basic statistics and basic programming abilities with Stata or R. All participants must bring a laptop with either Stata or R installed.
Key literature:
Organizer:
Peter Brønnum Nielsen, PhD, Assoc. Prof., Department of Clinical Medicine, AAU
Lecturers: Søren Paaske Johnsen, Peter Brønnum Nielsen, Chalotte W. Nicolajsen, +additional
ECTS: 2.5
Time: Date Month Year
Place: SUND building, Aalborg University, Selma Lagerløfs Vej 249
Zip code: 9260
City: Aalborg/Gistrup
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: Søren Paaske Johnsen
- Teacher: Chalotte Winther Nicolajsen
- Teacher: Peter Brønnum Nielsen
Welcome to Turning a basic research idea into a medicine development project (2025)
Description:
Goal with the PhD course
Doing research is fun and exciting, but to transform your research into something that can be developed for patients is often more difficult than thought.
Introduction and setup
To identify what the target is, how the target can be used to do something useful for a patient. Just a basic question like which disease should we go after? Often a pathway or protein or process is involved in diverse types of diseases. Which one should we pick, and why pick a specific disease.
Based on experience from both academic research and biotech we will go into several projects, both with success and ones that did not work out. See what the critical parts were, and where are the successes.
Also, what are some simple things that need to be in place for being able to develop a project, like can you measure activity of the project, IC50 of an enzyme, animal model to show it works. Toxicity, pharmacodynamics etc. how can one optimize the effects of the treatment etc.
The project will involve a project where the students will take a target, they do research on, and see how to make such a project in a biotech ready project.
Time and setup
The course is a 5 ECTS course, with 2-day lectures (via internet, if necessary) and individual or project group wise project feedback session with the course coordinator, as well as a day presenting the projects with Q & A with the other students.
Prerequisites:
Basic biomedicine understanding and a drive for make a change
Key literature: TBD
Organizer: Associate Professor John Dirk Vestergaard Nieland, email: jdn@hst.aau.dk
Lecturers: TBA
ECTS: 5.0
Time: Spring 2025 - 2-day lectures and 1 day presentation
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:
Goal with the PhD course
Doing research is fun and exciting, but to transform your research into something that can be developed for patients is often more difficult than thought.
Introduction and setup
To identify what the target is, how the target can be used to do something useful for a patient. Just a basic question like which disease should we go after? Often a pathway or protein or process is involved in diverse types of diseases. Which one should we pick, and why pick a specific disease.
Based on experience from both academic research and biotech we will go into several projects, both with success and ones that did not work out. See what the critical parts were, and where are the successes.
Also, what are some simple things that need to be in place for being able to develop a project, like can you measure activity of the project, IC50 of an enzyme, animal model to show it works. Toxicity, pharmacodynamics etc. how can one optimize the effects of the treatment etc.
The project will involve a project where the students will take a target, they do research on, and see how to make such a project in a biotech ready project.
Time and setup
The course is a 5 ECTS course, with 2-day lectures (via internet, if necessary) and individual or project group wise project feedback session with the course coordinator, as well as a day presenting the projects with Q & A with the other students.
Prerequisites:
Basic biomedicine understanding and a drive for make a change
Key literature: TBD
Organizer: Associate Professor John Dirk Vestergaard Nieland, email: jdn@hst.aau.dk
Lecturers: TBA
ECTS: 5.0
Time: Spring 2025 - 2-day lectures and 1 day presentation
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: John Nieland
Welcome to 4th symposium on the advances in biomedical engineering and neuroscience
Description:
The course has a focus on disseminating the most relevant and recent achievements within biomedical and engineering science to address relevant health care problems. This course will be organized annually and will include a series of lectures from internationally recognized speakers and from speakers from Aalborg University that are experts within the field. During the symposium, some time will be dedicated to the facilitation of interaction between the speakers and participants. The detailed agenda of the course will be provided on the course web site. Main topics can include electrophysiology, psychophysics, bio-signal processing, biostatistics, rehabilitation technology, machine learning, physiological modeling, decision support, big data, image analysis and computational neuroscience but also topics relevant for the life as a PhD student such as management of a research project, risk analysis and mitigation etc.
Prerequisites:
The course targets PhD students of the Program in Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience and other PhD students working within these areas. The course is repeated every year with a different focus, thus participation to the previous edition does not preclude participation in this edition.
Form of evaluation:
A poster session will be organized during the symposium. PhD students will bring and present a poster on their own work (it is allowed to bring a poster presented at another conference or meeting).
Key literature:
Relevant journal articles and book chapters related to the specific talks will be announced shortly before the course.
Organizer: Associate Professor Sabata Gervasio, email: saba@hst.aau.dk
Lecturers: Invited lecturers and lecturers from Department of Health Science and Technology and Clinical Medicine
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 has a focus on disseminating the most relevant and recent achievements within biomedical and engineering science to address relevant health care problems. This course will be organized annually and will include a series of lectures from internationally recognized speakers and from speakers from Aalborg University that are experts within the field. During the symposium, some time will be dedicated to the facilitation of interaction between the speakers and participants. The detailed agenda of the course will be provided on the course web site. Main topics can include electrophysiology, psychophysics, bio-signal processing, biostatistics, rehabilitation technology, machine learning, physiological modeling, decision support, big data, image analysis and computational neuroscience but also topics relevant for the life as a PhD student such as management of a research project, risk analysis and mitigation etc.
Prerequisites:
The course targets PhD students of the Program in Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience and other PhD students working within these areas. The course is repeated every year with a different focus, thus participation to the previous edition does not preclude participation in this edition.
Form of evaluation:
A poster session will be organized during the symposium. PhD students will bring and present a poster on their own work (it is allowed to bring a poster presented at another conference or meeting).
Key literature:
Relevant journal articles and book chapters related to the specific talks will be announced shortly before the course.
Organizer: Associate Professor Sabata Gervasio, email: saba@hst.aau.dk
Lecturers: Invited lecturers and lecturers from Department of Health Science and Technology and Clinical Medicine
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: Sabata Gervasio
Welcome to Qualitative research within health science
Description:
The use of qualitative research and data within the health sciences has been increasing over the last 20 years. Either as the main source of data, or as part of a mixed methods design where qualitative and quantitative studies supplement each other. This course will provide participants´ with basis competences in designing a qualitative study and experiences on benefits and limitations when using qualitative methods within the health sciences. The specific focus will be on designing the study, choosing appropriate methods, collecting data and finally analysing the data.
The detailed agenda of the course will be provided on the course web site.
The course will be a three and a half day course and the main topics will include:
What characterises qualitative research and why should you choose a qualitative approach
Introduction to different qualitative methods and their possibilities and limitations when used within the health sciences
Introduction to analytical strategies
How to work with and analyse ethical implications in qualitative research
Prerequisites:
The course targets Ph.D. students working within the areas of health science, who are planning to conduct qualitative research as part of their Ph.D, or are interested in gaining knowledge about the use of qualitative methods.
Form of evaluation:
Will be announced in appropriate time before the course.
Criteria for assessment:
Key literature:
Selected papers and book chapters will be announced to the participants in appropriate time before the course via Moodle.
Organizer:
Associate Professor Henrik Vardinghus-Nielsen, Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University.
Lecturers:
Associate Professor Henrik Vardinghus-Nielsen, Associate Professor Kirsten Schultz Petersen, Associate Professor Helle Lønstrup Haslund-Thomsen and Associate Professor Jane Andreasen
ECTS: 3.0
Time: 19 - 22 May 2025
Monday 9:00 – 15:30
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 8:30-15:30
Place: Aalborg University
Zip code: 9220
City: Aalborg
Maximal number of participants: 25
Deadline: 28 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:
The use of qualitative research and data within the health sciences has been increasing over the last 20 years. Either as the main source of data, or as part of a mixed methods design where qualitative and quantitative studies supplement each other. This course will provide participants´ with basis competences in designing a qualitative study and experiences on benefits and limitations when using qualitative methods within the health sciences. The specific focus will be on designing the study, choosing appropriate methods, collecting data and finally analysing the data.
The detailed agenda of the course will be provided on the course web site.
The course will be a three and a half day course and the main topics will include:
What characterises qualitative research and why should you choose a qualitative approach
Introduction to different qualitative methods and their possibilities and limitations when used within the health sciences
Introduction to analytical strategies
How to work with and analyse ethical implications in qualitative research
Prerequisites:
The course targets Ph.D. students working within the areas of health science, who are planning to conduct qualitative research as part of their Ph.D, or are interested in gaining knowledge about the use of qualitative methods.
Form of evaluation:
Will be announced in appropriate time before the course.
Criteria for assessment:
Key literature:
Selected papers and book chapters will be announced to the participants in appropriate time before the course via Moodle.
Organizer:
Associate Professor Henrik Vardinghus-Nielsen, Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University.
Lecturers:
Associate Professor Henrik Vardinghus-Nielsen, Associate Professor Kirsten Schultz Petersen, Associate Professor Helle Lønstrup Haslund-Thomsen and Associate Professor Jane Andreasen
ECTS: 3.0
Time: 19 - 22 May 2025
Monday 9:00 – 15:30
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 8:30-15:30
Place: Aalborg University
Zip code: 9220
City: Aalborg
Maximal number of participants: 25
Deadline: 28 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: Helle Lønstrup Haslund-Thomsen
- Teacher: Kirsten Schultz Petersen
- Teacher: Henrik Vardinghus-Nielsen
Welcome to Clinical Science Labarotory and translational medicine - Intro Course
Description:
PhD Programme: Mandatory for Clinical Science, Laboratory and Translational Medicine (CSLTM)
An introduction to being a Ph.D. student in this programme. Basic information on how to handle samples for biochemical analyses and other diagnostic investigations. How to establish a clinical study; use of databases; need of various approvals; and basic statistics.
This course is mandatory for students in the programme.
Organizer: Søren Risom Kristensen
Lecturers: Mainly supervisors/older PhD-students in the programme
ECTS: 1.5
Time: 24 September 2025. 8 AM – 4 PM
Place: Room 405, Forskningens Hus, Sdr. Skovvej 5, Aalborg Universitetshospital
Zip code: 9000
City: Aalborg
Maximal number of participants: 25
Deadline: 3 September
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:
PhD Programme: Mandatory for Clinical Science, Laboratory and Translational Medicine (CSLTM)
An introduction to being a Ph.D. student in this programme. Basic information on how to handle samples for biochemical analyses and other diagnostic investigations. How to establish a clinical study; use of databases; need of various approvals; and basic statistics.
This course is mandatory for students in the programme.
Organizer: Søren Risom Kristensen
Lecturers: Mainly supervisors/older PhD-students in the programme
ECTS: 1.5
Time: 24 September 2025. 8 AM – 4 PM
Place: Room 405, Forskningens Hus, Sdr. Skovvej 5, Aalborg Universitetshospital
Zip code: 9000
City: Aalborg
Maximal number of participants: 25
Deadline: 3 September
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: Søren Risom Kristensen
Welcome to Overdiagnosis. Sick, healthy, or in-between
Description:
Medical technology is vastly expanding, and self-assessment has become a big part of being healthy. Alongside, population screening is emerging, and diagnostic thresholds change, which means that even small deviations from “the normal” will be categorized as diseases. At the same time, new diseases emerge, and owing to this, increased numbers of treatments and check-ups will be needed.
This PhD course provides an overview of overdiagnosis, overdetection, misdiagnosis, and overtreatment, and following that, causes, drivers, mechanisms, and incentives to overdiagnosis.
The topics will include:
• Overdiagnosis. What it is and what it isn´t.
• Health culture and the quest for avoiding diseases and death
• What is the diagnostic accuracy of a test when overdiagnosis occurs?
• Self-monitoring and” digital health”
The course will be based on short lectures, group discussions, cases from epidemiological and qualitative studies, and analyzing and scrutinizing study designs.
The attendees will gain competences into the design and interpretation of clinical research beyond the Baysian diagnostic paradigm of a simple 2x2 table. In addition, they will get a perspective on how digital self-monitoring will change the culture and concept of health and disease.
The PhD course will be of interest to any researcher working with clinical research, digital health, diagnostics, screening, population-based research, and epidemiology.
Prerequisites:
None
Form of evaluation:
Key literature:
Not required - only recommended: Snart er vi alle patienter. Overdiagnostik i medicinske og samfundsfaglige perspektiver. Alexandra Brandt Ryborg Jønsson og John Brandt Brodersen.
Organizer: Professor Anne Estrup Olesen, aneso@dcm.aau.dk
Lecturers: Associate Professor Alexandra Brandt Ryborg Jønsson & Professor John Brandt Brodersen
ECTS: 1.5
Time: Fall 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:
Medical technology is vastly expanding, and self-assessment has become a big part of being healthy. Alongside, population screening is emerging, and diagnostic thresholds change, which means that even small deviations from “the normal” will be categorized as diseases. At the same time, new diseases emerge, and owing to this, increased numbers of treatments and check-ups will be needed.
This PhD course provides an overview of overdiagnosis, overdetection, misdiagnosis, and overtreatment, and following that, causes, drivers, mechanisms, and incentives to overdiagnosis.
The topics will include:
• Overdiagnosis. What it is and what it isn´t.
• Health culture and the quest for avoiding diseases and death
• What is the diagnostic accuracy of a test when overdiagnosis occurs?
• Self-monitoring and” digital health”
The course will be based on short lectures, group discussions, cases from epidemiological and qualitative studies, and analyzing and scrutinizing study designs.
The attendees will gain competences into the design and interpretation of clinical research beyond the Baysian diagnostic paradigm of a simple 2x2 table. In addition, they will get a perspective on how digital self-monitoring will change the culture and concept of health and disease.
The PhD course will be of interest to any researcher working with clinical research, digital health, diagnostics, screening, population-based research, and epidemiology.
Prerequisites:
None
Form of evaluation:
Key literature:
Not required - only recommended: Snart er vi alle patienter. Overdiagnostik i medicinske og samfundsfaglige perspektiver. Alexandra Brandt Ryborg Jønsson og John Brandt Brodersen.
Organizer: Professor Anne Estrup Olesen, aneso@dcm.aau.dk
Lecturers: Associate Professor Alexandra Brandt Ryborg Jønsson & Professor John Brandt Brodersen
ECTS: 1.5
Time: Fall 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: Anne Estrup Olesen