Period (from – till): 24 Febuary - 17 June 2021
Faculty
S. de Jong, PhD, UMCU, DH&L, Med. Physiology, course coordinator.
Course description
This course gives you the opportunity to think about solutions to a disease-related problem and to obtain skills such as working in an interdisciplinary team with master students from the Graduate School of Life Sciences, Medicine Master ‘SUMMA’, and master students from the Technical University Eindhoven.
The overarching aim is, that - based on a real-life patient-oriented problem (e.g. inflammatory bowel disease) - future doctors, engineers, and biomedical scientists will collaborate to come up with a potential solution.
You will work in small interdisciplinary groups guided by experts in the fields of biomed/-tech. The course consists of three plenary meeting days (January 16th – March 5th – May 14th 2020). In between these plenary meeting days, you will work at a distance to keep things going.
Within this elective course you will learn among others about interdisciplinary collaborative skills, design thinking, brainstorming, pitching potential solutions, entrepreneurship, and patient perspectives.
Literature/study material used:
Primary literature
Registration:
You can register for this course via
Osiris Student. More information about the registration procedure can be found
here on the Studyguide.
Additionally, you are required to send an e-mail to the course coordinator, specifying the course code, the masterprogramme you participate in and your background (biomedical/medical/technical).
Mandatory for students in own Master’s programme:
No
Optional for students in other GSLS Master’s programme:
Yes, for all GSLS students
Prerequisite knowledge
None.
Other remarks
This 3 EC course can be extended to 5 EC. The extension consists of an individual assignment that focuses on the inclusion of additional disciplines in the proposed solution.
Be aware that in that case you should register for the 5 EC variant of this course with course code BMB539019.