GSMS Courses

The Graduate School of Medical Sciences (GSMS) offers a wide range of courses for additional training of PhD students, Top Master’s and Research Master’s students, and MD/PhD students. These include courses that prepare the students for their research tasks, and field-specific and interdisciplinary subjects specifically relating to their own research project. In addition to the general courses, the program contains research-specific courses on technique and courses that are field-specific with interdisciplinary subjects.

The Graduate School offers general courses as well as field-specific and interdisciplinary subjects organized in the four Research Unstitutes. The courses are divided into five categories:

- General Competences
- Research specific Techniques
- Field specific & interdisciplinary Subjects
- Seminars / Symposia / Meetings
- External courses

Below an overview of the Graduate School’s courses. The training program is also available in pdf-format (click here [PDF]).

General Competences

   - Project management and GSMS Introduction

   - Introducing New PhD Students to SHARE

   - BCN Orientation Course

   - BCN Management Competences in your PhD Project 

   - Ethics of Research on Human Subjects

   - Scientific Integrity

   - Scientific Integrity for Researchers

   - Technical & Ethical Aspects of Digital Image Manipulation

   - Scientific Literature; Searching and Managing, Citations & Impact Factors

   - Critical Appraisal of Literature

   - Poster Preparation

   - BCN Poster Presentation

   - Presentation Skills

   - Publishing in English

   - Introductory Course 'Writing a Successful Research Proposal'

   - Science Writing Course (only for SHARE PhD students)

   - 'Thesis defense in sight'

   - Choosing your Career in Life Sciences

   - Survival Dutch 

 

Research specific Techniques

   - Design and Data Analysis of Micro-array Expression Studies

   - Design, Conduction and Evaluation of a Clinical Trial

   - Epidemiology and Applied Statistics

   - BCN Statistics Course

   - Medical Statistics

   - Genetic Epidemiological Research and Data Analysis

   - Psychiatric Epidemiology

   - Public Health Epidemiology

   - Study Design in Clinical Epidemiology 

   - Measuring Concepts in Quantitative Research

   - Incomplete Information: Non-response, Attrition, and Missing Data

   - Multivariate Analyses: How to Handle Three Variables

   - Clinical Relevance versus Statistical Significance

   - Working with Questionnaires in Patient-related Research

   - Qualitative Research Methods

   - Good Manufacturing Practice: GMP

   - Good Research Practices: GCP/GLP

   - Cellular Imaging

   - Image Analysis

   - BCN Introductory fMRI Course

   - In Vivo Imaging Analysis

   - Microscopy

   - Functional Neuroscience: EEG - BCN Part

   - Laboratory Animal Science

   - Microbiological Safety

   - Microsurgery

   - Quartz Crystal Microbalance (QCM) and Low Load Mechanical Tester (LLMT)

   - SMBWO Immunology Course on HLA Typing and HLA Antibodies

   - Surface Characterization

   - Techniques in Molecular Biology

   - Working with Isotopes

   - Working with Radioactive Substances

   - X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy

 

Field specific & interdisciplinary Subjects 

   - Advanced Drug Delivery & Drug Targeting

   - Bioinformatics

   - Blood-Material Interactions

   - Cells, Materials & Biomaterials

   - Colloid Stability

   - Polymers in Medicine

   - Basics in Psychology and Psychosocial Factors

   - Health Psychology: Theory, Research and Practice

   - Health Psychology; advanced course

   - BCN Human Neuroanatomy 

   - Hydrophobicity-SFE-DLVO

   - Immunology I

   - Implants for Application in Maxillofacial Surgery

   - Implants for Application in Ophthalmology

   - Introduction to Medical Product Design

   - Membranes, Signal Transduction and Transport

   - BCN Philosophy of Neuroscience 

   - Tissue Engineering – An Introduction

   - Basics in Medicine

 

Seminars / Symposia / Meetings

   - BCN PhD Retreat

   - SHARE Seminar Series

   - BCN Lectures

   - BCN Symposium

   - BCN Master Classes

   - Dutch Endo-Neuro-Psycho Meeting

   - LOT Summer and Winter School

   - Molecular Medicine Seminar Series

   - NWO Talent Day (Talentendag)

External courses

   - Basiscursus Regelgeving & Organisatie voor Klinisch Onderzoekers (BROK)

   - Central Medical Library Courses

   - Courses on Information Technology

   - Courses on Career Development & Training