Medical Sciences Summer School Transplantation Medicine June 10 - 13, 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 Summer School Transplantation Medicine

The main goal of this Medical Sciences Summer School is:

1. To introduce medical students into the various aspects of solid organ transplantation 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. Furthermore, transplant recipients will contribute by lectures or interviews to illustrate the view of the patient and will give examples of the down side of organ transplantation, hence stressing the need for improvement of patient care. The participant will actively discuss and present scientifically articles in small groups. A course book will be composed.

Who can participate?

• Selected medical students from Groningen and Mannheim interested in transplantation medicine/transplantation research. 
• Selected medical students interested in transplantation medicine/transplantation research from preferred partners of the Graduate School of Medical Sciences of the University of Groningen.
• Also students whose abstract on transplantation medicine has been selected for a presentation at the ISCOMS (International Student Congress of Medical Sciences) are cordially invited to participate.

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

 

Scientific partners