Curriculum
The curriculum of the IPHS allows students to individually tailor a course program to fit their particular educational background and their specific research interests. The formal coursework is required for the completion of the dissertation and encompass a minimum of four hours per week and term over four terms.
The attended courses should be choosen by the students and should be documented on the IPHS attendance forms.
The courses which the candidates have to take comprise both mandatory and elective modules. The latter may involve a large number of subject areas.
Mandatory Modules
Lectures, seminars, exercises, lab courses and other activities in the following areas:
- Seminars on Project Development
- Medical Statistics (see below for the Statistic Workshop lectured in English)
- Ethics, Theory of Sciences and Legislation in Research (see below)
- Working and Publishing in Science / Science Communication / Good Scientific Practice (see below)
Elective Modules
Lectures, seminars, exercises, lab courses and other activities in the following areas:
- Evidence-based Medicine / Evaluations related to Health Economics
- Healthcare System and Society
- Translational Research
- Health Services Research
- Human Biology
- Pathology, Pharmacology
- Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Chemistry
- Physics
- Empirical Social Research
- Medical & Social Diversity
- Mathematical & Statistical Modeling
- Images of Man in Research
- Psychology / Psychiatry.
Attendance forms
Please list all attended course on your attendance sheets.
Lectures, courses and seminars of the University of Cologne
An overview of all lectures, courses and seminars of the University of Cologne can be seen in KLIPS 2.0: https://klips2.uni-koeln.de/co/webnav.ini (Faculty -> Faculty of Medicine -> Division -> Courses)
Some of these lectures and seminars might be of interest (according to your project) for postgraduates of the Interdisciplinary Program Health Sciences at the University of Cologne.
Guest Speaker seminars
In additional to courses and seminars on a regular basis during the semester guest speaker seminars can be taken. For guest speaker seminars please visit: http://www.life-science-vortraege.uni-koeln.de/ or the annoucements of the University of Cologne or the University Hospital Cologne.
Ethics, Theory of Sciences and Legislation in Research
The next workshop on "Ethics, Theory of Sciences and Legislation in Research" by Sebastian Mueller (ceres) will take place on Wed 02.12.2020 and Thu 03.12.2020 each from 10 am - 1 pm as digital video conference via Zoom. Please register here (deadline for registration: 30.11.2020).
Statistics Workshops
The next workshop on Statistics with the Software "R" lectured in English by Prof. Dr. A. Tresch and Prof. Dr. A. Dilthey will take place on each Thursday (lecture: 10-12 am / practical course: 1-3 pm) on the following 6 dates:
10.12.20 / 17.12.20 / 14.01.21 / 21.01.21 / 28.01.21 / 04.02.21
Please register here (deadline for registration: 08.12.2020).
For further lectures and courses offered by the Institute for Medical Statistics and Bioinformatics please click here.
Working and Publishing in Science / Science Communication
The University of Cologne offers a range of opportunities:
- A course in Good Scientific Practice is mandatory. For an overview of course offers please visit the Career Event Guide of the Albertus Magnus Center
- The Albertus Magnus Center (AMC) is the central contact for everyone interested in pursuing a doctorate as well as for all current doctoral candidates at the University of Cologne. Please visit their webpage for further information and links to offered courses
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