Medical Sciences Spring School Healthy Ageing May 5 - 9, 2012

Goal of a Medical Sciences School

A Medical Sciences School can be best defined as a School which is specially focused on clinical-scientific research, aiming at improvement of patient care. The main goal of a Medical Sciences School is recruiting young potentials, i.e. enthusiastic and talented students who are attracted by combining patient care with doing scientific research. So a Medical Sciences School is targeting clinical-scientific research and strives for scientific co-operation and pre- and post-graduate education at an international level, trying to attract students already interested in research, e.g. students involved in the Junior Scienitific Masterclass. The intentions are to stimulate students’ interest in research from an early stage on, to allow PhD students the opportunity to report on their research subjects and to encourage contact between research project leaders.

Goal of the Medical Sciences Spring School Healthy Ageing

The main goal of this Medical Sciences Spring School is:

1. To introduce medical students into the various aspects of healthy ageing with focus on the limitations/complications we are facing today.
2. How to understand/tackle these problems by performing scientific research.

Teaching Methods

The format of a Medical Sciences School is based on the intense interaction between students and masters.

A variety of lectures will be given by experts in the field on topics given below. The participant will work on healthy ageing-related scientific problems in small multidisciplinary groups, applying multiple (societal, medical and biological) approaches. A course book will be composed.

Who can participate?

• Selected (medical) students from Groningen interested in healthy ageing/healthy ageing research. 
• Selected medical students interested in healthy ageing/healthy ageing research from preferred partners of the Graduate School of Medical Sciences of the University of Groningen.

 Information and Registration: summer.schools@med.umcg.nl