Course description

Course Contents

The content of the course will be shaped in accordance with the needs and wishes of the individual student. After choosing the thesis project, the student consults with the project leader and decides on one or more medical subjects which need study in depth. The coordinator of the course names a teacher who formulates a four week programme and a paper assignment. During the course the student will stay in close contact with the teacher. Weekly, progress meetings will be held by the coordinator.

 

Course lay-out

Individualised programs will be developed.

 

Educational goals

Student has obtained extensive knowledge about a selected subject. Subjects may be selected from areas like: bio-informatics, signal and image processing, information systems, decision support, public health and registries, electronic communication and telemedicine, patient safety and radiotherapy applications. Student is able to gather relevant basic medical knowledge from high quality sources.

 

Involved departments

• Clinical Informatics

 

Evaluation

Evaluation of the course and assignments

Just a week before the academic year started all students received an e-mail; it stated that the Electives were changed and two coordinators were no longer participating in the curriculum. Only one coordinator remained and the organization of the Electives was very bad. There was only one course planned to guide the student in order to prepare him/her for his/her final thesis and project. Luckily I discussed my objectives and project very good with my mentor and tutor. Therefore my Electives went well and I performed a lot of literature research in order to prepare myself for my scientific research project. I perfected my literature research abities even more and furthermore my writing skills were improved during the Electives. In the two months I have created a report in which I have described the results of my literature research as if it was a scientific article. My supervisors helped me a lot by providing input, directions for further research and feedback. The result was a good Elective report which will be used as a starting point.