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Cardiovascular Winter School 2021
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
Activity no.: 3901-21-00-00
Enrollment deadline: 09/08/2021
Date and time
25.08.2021, at: 00:00 - 03.09.2021, at: 16:00
Regular seats
60
Course fee
2,040.00 kr.
ECTS credits
1.40
Contact person
Arnela Saljic E-mail address: arnela@sund.ku.dk
Enrolment Handling/Course Organiser
PhD administration E-mail address: phdkursus@sund.ku.dk
Aim and content
This is a generic course. This means that the course is reserved for PhD students at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences at UCPH. Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are not a PhD student at the Graduate School, you will be placed on the waiting list until enrollment deadline. After the enrolment deadline, available seats will be allocated to the waiting list.
The 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.
Learning objectives
A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to:
1st year graduate students
1.Critically review abstracts and poster presentations
2.Reflect on oral presentations
3.Apply correct scientific writing to their research papers and thesis
2nd year graduate students
1.Present and discuss a scientific poster
2.Reflect on oral presentations
3.Apply poster presentation skills to their poster presentations
3rd year graduate students
1.Present and discuss their research project orally
2.Apply communication and presentation skills to oral presentations
Content
This course is organized in collaboration with the DCAcademy
Day 1 consists of workshops of different skills relevant to the different stages of the graduate studies.
1st year students will attend the course on ‘writing skills in academia’:
Writing is an integral part of academia, and includes specific genres such as the abstract, manuscript or the thesis.
This workshop contents are:
•How to get started
•Structure your writing
•Abstract style
•English grammar
•Legible scientific English
Teacher: Nicolai Paulsen, language consultant, University of Copenhagen.
2nd year students will attend the course on ‘Posters: can they deliver the goods? Yes!’:
Get ideas and tips about what to present, how to portray it, and how to present it orally
Teachers: to be determined
3rd year students will attend the course on ‘Communication & presentation in the academic context: How to be confident and persuasive’:
Whether small talk or academic subject presentation – the ability to present oneself adequately and to communicate one’s concerns effectively is a deciding factor of career-related success in academia.
With a few fundamental strategies for communication and presentation techniques, it is possible to illustrate complex data in a relevant manner, to convince others, to win supporters and thus reach the respectively set goals.
In this workshop the participants engage with their personal communication strategies. Through exercises and role-playing they familiarize themselves with established presentation techniques and train their communicative competencies. The workshop contents are:
•Communication basics: Good communication presumes set goals
•Presentation basics: Preparation is key
•Go public – go scientific! The context makes the difference
•Everything under control? Dealing with difficult situations
•Role-play: Presentation situations in practice
•Minima rhetorica: Tips & tricks on the art of oratory
•Communication & presentation:My next steps
Teacher: Melanie Lynn Conrad, Golin Wissenschaftsmanagement, Hamburg
Graduate students affiliated with the graduate program in cardiovascular research participate in day 1.
Day 2 contains plenary lectures and presentations from the PhD students in the graduate program in cardiovascular research: 2nd year PhD students present their research projects on posters and 3rd year PhD students present their projects orally. The presentations will be reviewed and evaluated by the 1st year students under guidance of a group of supervisors in the graduate program.
Four plenary lectures will be given by prominent researchers in the field of cardiovascular research which will be announced later.
Prizes will be given to best abstract, poster presentation, and oral presentation at the CardioDinner taking place the same evening.
Graduate students and their supervisors affiliated with the cardiovascular graduate participate in day 2.
Participants
The course is intended for PhD students affiliated with the Cardiovascular graduate program, but PhD students in the field of cardiovascular research, but associated with other graduate programs are also welcome.
Relevance to graduate programmes
The course is relevant to PhD students from the following graduate programs at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH:
Cardiovascular Research
Language
English
Form
Mixture of plenary lectures, workshops, discussions, oral and poster presentations.
Preparation
An abstract of the project must be submitted by 2nd and 3rd year students (no later than Dec 15th, 2020 using the registration form while the 1st year students are invited to prepare an abstract to use in their Day 1 workshop (not mandatory) (to be submitted before Dec 15th, 2020 using the registration form). PhD students must prepare either an oral presentation (3rd year) or a poster (2nd year), or prepare to act as poster reviewers (1st year).
Course director
Professor Thomas Jespersen
Email address: thojes@sund.ku.dk
Course administrator
Arnela Saljic
Email address: arnela@sund.ku.dk
Teachers
‘Writing skills in academia’ is taught by Nicolai Paulsen
Teachers of ‘Posters: Can they deliver the goods? Yes!’ is taught by Carol Bang-Christensen.
‘Communication and presentation in the academic context’ is taught by Melanie Lynn Conrad, Golin Wissenschaftsmanagement, Hamburg
The second day of the course will include a seminar with plenary lectures from four prominent researchers (national + international)
Dates
Day 1. Workshops (25th and 26th of August, 2021)
Day 2. Plenary lectures and presentations (3th of September, 2021)
Course location
Mærsk Building
Registration
Please register before August 9th, 2021 and mark which year of your graduate studies you are in at the date of the course.
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.
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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