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Design Thinking in Health and Medical Sciences (NorDoc Summer School 2021)
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3907-21-00-00 
Enrollment deadline: 01/08/2021
Date and time16.08.2021, at: 08:00 - 17.08.2021, at: 16:00
Regular seats20
Course fee3,000.00 kr.
ECTS credits1.80
Contact personNadia Jin Storm    E-mail address: nadia.storm@sund.ku.dk
Enrolment Handling/Course OrganiserPhD 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), and for PhD students at graduate schools in the other Nordic countries. All other participants must pay the course fee.

Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are not a PhD student at a Danish university or Nordic countries, you will be placed on the waiting list until enrollment deadline. After the enrollment deadline, available seats will be allocated to applicants on the waiting list.


Learning objectives
A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to:

1. Understand how to use DesignThinking as a tool when solving a problem

2. Learn how to use Design Thinking tools to develop new ideas and to assess market potential in current research/needs

3. Get insight into how DesignThinking can create a good setup for working with development and implementation of new ideas and processes

4. Analyse a problem and put into perspective how to assess a solution


Content
The 2-day DesignThinking course is designed to give the participants a quick overview of the DesignThinking principles and a short introduction to the toolbox used. The workshop is a hands-on workshop where the participants are introduced to how the DesignThinking toolbox can be a strong, creative and alternative way of identifying needs, creating prototypes, assessing problems and finding solutions. The content in the DesignThinking course will cover translational research, commercialization, business development in health/medical sciences, career development and team work.


Participants
PhD students at all levels can participate. No further experience or qualifications are required.


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


Form
Lectures, group work, discussions, oral presentations


Course director
Nadia Storm, senior consultant, SUND, nadia.storm@sund.ku.dk


Teachers
Rune Skovsø Møller, consultant, Technological Institute


Dates
16 – 17 August 2021


Course location
University of Copenhagen, Panum, Blegdamsvej 3b, 2200 Copenhagen N.
Room: In the hallway in the back of Maersk Tower, first floor, room 41 and 61 (13.1.41+61).


Registration
Please register before 1 August 2021


PLEASE 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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