Graduate School of health and Medical Sciences

Paediatric Research
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3204-18-00-00
	Enrollment deadline: 02/04/2018

Date and time	23.04.2018, at: 09:00 - 25.04.2018, at: 16:00
Regular seats	20
Course fee	1,800.00 kr.
Lecturers	Gorm Greisen Klaus Bønnelykke Kjeld Schmiegelow
ECTS credits	2.00


Enrolment Handling/Course Organiser	PhD administration E-mail address: phdkursus@sund.ku.dk

Aim and content This course is free of charge for PhD students at Danish universities (except Copenhagen Business School). All other participants must pay the course fee. Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are not a PhD student, you will be placed on the waiting list for the course until enrollment deadline. After the deadline of enrollment, available seats will be allocated to students on the waiting list. Learning objectives A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to: 1. Propose ways of studying mechanisms of long-term impact of early life exposures 2. Evaluate research reports in terms of pediatric relevance as regards age and maturity 3. Discuss the need of enrolling children in research and the special requirements Content Children are not just small adults, and pediatric research is not just a question of downscaling. Due to the dynamic biological development (not least in utero and during early childhood), the diversity in gene expression across age groups, and the complex psychosocial development and interaction between the child, the parents, and other significant individuals in the child’s environment, pediatric research in general requires a different approach compared to that applied for adults. Furthermore, although special legislation aims to protect the child when eligible for participation in research programs, this may fall short of its objective, because of the difficulties in the application of some of the basic ethical principles during childhood, e.g. the principles of autonomy and full information prior to consent. This course will focus on three main topics: 1. Child, family, and society (keywords: Nature and nurture, socio-biology, psychosocial determinants, deficits and handicap, quality of life, international comparisons) 2. Age, maturity, size and time (keywords: Growth, development, reference values, pharmacology, biologic programming, secular trends, animal models). 3. Ethics and regulations, and philosophical consideration when dealing with pediatric research (keywords: Informing children, the child's choice, parental authority, risk, pain, and inconvenience, non-therapeutic research, studying normal children, register-based studies, international collaboration, the child as an independent self-defining individual). Format: A mixture of lectures by invited speakers and group sessions w/ presentations by the participating students. The duration of the course is three days (21 hours). Students are expected to prepare for the course. Participants PhD students,other active researchers and physicians under paediatric training. Max. 24 Relevance to graduate programmes The course is relevant to PhD students from the following graduate programmes at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH: All graduate programmes Language English (if any participants not fluent in Danish) Form Each theme is developed over one day from short, focused presentations by teachers and participants. Course director Prof. Gorm Greisen, Tel.: +45 3545 1326. E-mail: gorm.greisen@regionh.dk Prof. Kjeld Schmiegelow, Tel.: +45 3545 1357. E-mail: kjeld.schmiegelow@regionh.dk Teachers Kjeld Schmiegelow, Klaus Müller, Klaus Bønnelykke, Gorm Greisen, Kim F. Michaelsen, Anders Juul, Ib Bygbjerg, Anja Pinborg, Anne-Marie Gerdes, Mads Melbye, Søren Rittig, Per Sangild Dates 23.-25. April 2018 Course location Hammershusgade 2, 2100 Ø (Rigshospitalets konferencerum 2) Registration Please register before 2 April 2018 Seats to PhD students from other Danish universities will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and according to the applicable rules. Applications from other participants will be considered after the last day of enrolment. Note: All applicants are asked to submit invoice details in case of no-show, late cancellation or obligation to pay the course fee (typically non-PhD students). If you are a PhD student, your participation in the course must be in agreement with your principal supervisor.

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