Cardiovascular Winter School 2025 (1st year)
Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences at University of Copenhagen
This is a generic course. This means that the course is reserved for PhD students at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences at UCPH.
Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are not a PhD student at the Graduate School, you will be placed on the waiting list until enrollment deadline. After the enrolment deadline, available seats will be allocated to the waiting list.
The course is free of charge for PhD students at Danish universities (except Copenhagen Business School), and for PhD students at NorDoc member faculties. All other participants must pay the course fee.
Cardiovascular Winter School 2025 (1st year)
The Cardiovascular Winter School is designed to stimulate networking between PhD students affiliated with the graduate program in cardiovascular research at the University of Copenhagen and networking between PhD students and senior researchers in cardiovascular research. It offers a chance for the PhD students to discuss their project with other PhD students and supervisors. Furthermore, the graduate students will obtain transferable skills relevant to the stage of progress of their PhD study and project.
Learning objectives
The Cardiovascular Winter School 2025 is organized in collaboration with Danish Cardiovascular Academy (DCAcademy).
A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to:
1. 1st year PhD students:
1) Apply correct scientific writing to their research papers and thesis
2) Critically review abstracts and poster presentations
3) Reflect on oral presentations
2. 2nd year PhD students:
1) Apply poster presentation skills to their poster presentations
2) Present and discuss a scientific poster
3) Reflect on oral presentations
3. 3rd year PhD studnets:
1) Apply communication and presentation skills to oral presentations
2) Present and discuss their research project
Content
Day 1 consists of workshops of different skills relevant to the different stages of the PhD studies.
1st year PhD students will attend the workshop on 'Writing skills in academia'
Writing is an integral part of academia and includes specific genres such as the abstract, manuscript or the thesis.
This workshop contents are:
• How to get started and how to structure your writing
• Abstract style and format
• English grammar and legible scientific English
Teacher: Nicolai Paulsen, language consultant
2nd year students will attend the course on ‘Posters presentation in an academi context'
Get ideas and tips about what to present, how to portray it, and how to present your poster orally. You will be introduced to the point of poster presentations and what you hope to achieve by presenting your poster. You will also be able to determin your key message and what information you need to support it and, importantly, what information you don’t need. You will also explore what makes a poster effective or ineffective, culminating in ideas and tips on how to make an eye-catching poster with lasting impact.
The workshop contents are:
• Prioritizing and structuring your scientific poster
• Presenting a poster
Teacher: Carol Bang Christensen
3rd year students will attend the course on ‘Oral presentations in an academia context'
Whether small talk or academic subject presentation – the ability to present oneself adequately and to communicate one’s concerns effectively is a deciding factor of career-related success in academia.
With a few fundamental strategies for communication and presentation techniques, it is possible to illustrate complex data in a relevant manner, to convince others, to win supporters and thus reach the respectively set goals. In this workshop the participants engage with their personal communication strategies. Through exercises you will familiarize yourself with established presentation techniques and train communicative competencies.
The workshop contents are:
• Building a presentation from your scientific data and work
• Slide design
• Communication and presentation situations in practice and feedback on your presentation
Teacher: Melanie Conrad
Day 2 contains plenary lectures and presentations from the PhD students in the graduate program in cardiovascular research. 1st year PhD students will be responsible for evaluating the poster presentations, 2nd year PhD students will present their research projects on posters and 3rd year PhD students present their projects orally. Furthermore, this day plenary lectures will be given by prominent researchers in the field of cardiovascular research. This year the plenary lectures will be focused on career opportunities in cardiovascular field.
Prizes will be given to best poster presentation and oral presentation.
Participants
As a PhD student in the Cardiovascular Research Program you must attend 2 out of 3 Winter Schools during the course of your PhD study. The 2/3 attendance rule only applies for students enrolled from 1st of January 2021
Relevance to graduate programmes
The course is relevant to PhD students from the following graduate programmes at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH:
Cardiovascular Research
Language
English
Form
Mixture of plenary lectures, workshops, discussions, oral and poster presentations
Course director
Thomas Jespersen, Professor
Department of Biomedical Sciences
Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
Univeristy of Copenhagen
Teachers
1st year workshop teacher: Nicolai Paulsen, language consultant
2nd year workshop teacher: Carol Bang Christensen
3rd year workshop teacher: Melanie Conrad
Plenary leactures in the 24th of January:
Rest of the speakers TBA
Dates
9 -10 January 2025 (9-17) and 24 January 2025 (9-17)
You only have to participate in one of the workshop days, so either on the 9th or on the 10th of January. The contents of the workshops is the same both days, but we can only host a certain amount of students on each days to give you the best outcome. The seats will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.
Furthermore you have to participate in the plenary lectures and presentations on the 24th of January.
Course location
Panum
Registration
Please register before 15 December 2024
Expected frequency
Once a year (every January)
Seats to PhD students from other Danish universities will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and according to the applicable rules. Applications from other participants will be considered after the last day of enrolment.
Note: All applicants are asked to submit invoice details in case of no-show, late cancellation or obligation to pay the course fee (typically non-PhD students). If you are a PhD student, your participation in the course must be in agreement with your principal supervisor.