Graduate School of health and Medical Sciences

Getting started: Writing your first manuscript for publication
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3777-25-00-03	There are 12 available seats
	Enrollment deadline: 18/08/2025

Date and time	18.09.2025, at: 08:30 - 09.10.2025, at: 16:00
Regular seats	12
Course fee	5,880.00 kr.
Lecturers	Hanne Tønnesen
ECTS credits	2.20

Contact person	Rie Raffing E-mail address: tdm118@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 NorDoc member faculties. All other participants must pay the course fee. Learning objectives A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to: 1. define the purpose of their article 2. select relevant content 3. structure the article 4. write using an appropriate academic language Content Publication in international peer-reviewed journals is the key to a successful academic career. Meanwhile, early-career researchers with little experience face major challenges. The first step is conducting the research. The next step is writing an article and getting it published—a potentially daunting task fraught with difficulties. This course aims to help PhD students with a medical background tackle these difficulties and navigate their way through the writing and submission process to produce their first published article. Advice will be given on framing the research question, selecting relevant content, structuring the article, reading author guidelines, selecting an appropriate journal, and understanding the review process. Editors of scientific journals will share their insights and provide recommendations. In addition, participants will be introduced to relevant aspects of academic English. Importantly, throughout the course, participants will have the opportunity to work on their own articles, seek guidance, and apply the knowledge they have gained. Participants PhD students, primarily with a medical background. 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 Danish and English. Solely English if required by non-Danish speaking participants. Form Lectures, discussions, exercises Course directors Hanne Tønnesen, Professor, Clinical Health Promotion Centre - WHO Collaborating Centre, Bispebjerg og Frederiksberg Hospital, RegionH, hanne.tonnesen@regionh.dk. Rie Raffing, Deputy Manager, Clinical Health Promotion Centre - WHO Collaborating Centre, Bispebjerg & Frederiksberg Hospital, RegionH Rie Raffing, Deputy Manager, Clinical Health Promotion Centre - WHO Collaborating Centre, Bispebjerg & Frederiksberg Hospital, RegionH Teachers Hanne Tønnesen, Professor, Clinical Health Promotion Centre - WHO Collaborating Centre, Bispebjerg & Frederiksberg Hospital, RegionH Kåre Stahl Jacobsen, Medical Specialist, A Medical, København Jeff Kirk Svane, PhD, Chefkonsulent, Center for Sundhed, RegionH Thor Bern Jensen, Pressekonsulent, Sundhedsstyrelsen Martin Tolsgaard, Professor, CAMES, Rigshospitalet, RegionH Stephen Gilliver, Principal Medical Writer, Evidera Kristoffer Andresen, MD, Managing Editor, The Cochrane Colorectal Editorial Office Rie Raffing, Deputy Manager, Clinical Health Promotion Centre - WHO Collaborating Centre, Bispebjerg & Frederiksberg Hospital, RegionH Dates 18th of September, 2nd and 9th of October 2025 Course location The Parker Institute, Frederiksberg Hospital. Registration Please register before 18 September 2025 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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