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How to Conceptualize and Implement a PhD Program in Health Sciences—The Basel Approach
OBJECTIVES: Over the past decade, several excellent guidelines have been published on how to enhance the quality of PhD education in Europe. Aimed primarily at preparing students for innovative roles in their fields, they include variously structured approaches to curricular offerings, as well as ot...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5954309/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29780889 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2382120518771364 |
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author | Keller, Franziska Dhaini, Suzanne Briel, Matthias Henrichs, Sina Höchsmann, Christoph Kalbermatten, Daniel Künzli, Nino Mollet, Annette Puelacher, Christian Schmidt-Trucksäss, Arno von Niederhäusern, Belinda De Geest, Sabina |
author_facet | Keller, Franziska Dhaini, Suzanne Briel, Matthias Henrichs, Sina Höchsmann, Christoph Kalbermatten, Daniel Künzli, Nino Mollet, Annette Puelacher, Christian Schmidt-Trucksäss, Arno von Niederhäusern, Belinda De Geest, Sabina |
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description | OBJECTIVES: Over the past decade, several excellent guidelines have been published on how to enhance the quality of PhD education in Europe. Aimed primarily at preparing students for innovative roles in their fields, they include variously structured approaches to curricular offerings, as well as other program components applicable across specialties (eg: supervisor support, scientific conduct, transferable skills). Since 2012, the interdisciplinary PhD Program in Health Sciences (PPHS) at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Basel in Switzerland has focused on translating these guidelines into a 21st-century health sciences PhD program. RESULTS: The PPHS started in 2012 based on the European Union (EU) guidelines for PhD education. This article describes the resulting interdisciplinary PhD program’s conceptual underpinnings, rationale, structures, and 10 building blocks, like student portfolios, thematic training, interdisciplinary research seminars, student-initiated interdisciplinary activities, financial support of course participation, top-up and extension stipends, PhD supervision, research integrity, alumni follow-up network, and promotional tools including a dedicated website. Students enter from Clinical Research, Medicine Development, Nursing Science, Epidemiology and Public Health including Insurance Medicine, Sport Science (all from the Faculty of Medicine), and Epidemiology (Faculty of Science). DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: The Basel PPHS exemplifies state-of-the-art PhD education in Health Sciences based on European guidelines and offers guidance to other groups from conceptualization to rollout of an interdisciplinary health sciences PhD program. |
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spelling | pubmed-59543092018-05-18 How to Conceptualize and Implement a PhD Program in Health Sciences—The Basel Approach Keller, Franziska Dhaini, Suzanne Briel, Matthias Henrichs, Sina Höchsmann, Christoph Kalbermatten, Daniel Künzli, Nino Mollet, Annette Puelacher, Christian Schmidt-Trucksäss, Arno von Niederhäusern, Belinda De Geest, Sabina J Med Educ Curric Dev Commentary OBJECTIVES: Over the past decade, several excellent guidelines have been published on how to enhance the quality of PhD education in Europe. Aimed primarily at preparing students for innovative roles in their fields, they include variously structured approaches to curricular offerings, as well as other program components applicable across specialties (eg: supervisor support, scientific conduct, transferable skills). Since 2012, the interdisciplinary PhD Program in Health Sciences (PPHS) at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Basel in Switzerland has focused on translating these guidelines into a 21st-century health sciences PhD program. RESULTS: The PPHS started in 2012 based on the European Union (EU) guidelines for PhD education. This article describes the resulting interdisciplinary PhD program’s conceptual underpinnings, rationale, structures, and 10 building blocks, like student portfolios, thematic training, interdisciplinary research seminars, student-initiated interdisciplinary activities, financial support of course participation, top-up and extension stipends, PhD supervision, research integrity, alumni follow-up network, and promotional tools including a dedicated website. Students enter from Clinical Research, Medicine Development, Nursing Science, Epidemiology and Public Health including Insurance Medicine, Sport Science (all from the Faculty of Medicine), and Epidemiology (Faculty of Science). DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: The Basel PPHS exemplifies state-of-the-art PhD education in Health Sciences based on European guidelines and offers guidance to other groups from conceptualization to rollout of an interdisciplinary health sciences PhD program. SAGE Publications 2018-04-24 /pmc/articles/PMC5954309/ /pubmed/29780889 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2382120518771364 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Commentary Keller, Franziska Dhaini, Suzanne Briel, Matthias Henrichs, Sina Höchsmann, Christoph Kalbermatten, Daniel Künzli, Nino Mollet, Annette Puelacher, Christian Schmidt-Trucksäss, Arno von Niederhäusern, Belinda De Geest, Sabina How to Conceptualize and Implement a PhD Program in Health Sciences—The Basel Approach |
title | How to Conceptualize and Implement a PhD Program in Health Sciences—The Basel Approach |
title_full | How to Conceptualize and Implement a PhD Program in Health Sciences—The Basel Approach |
title_fullStr | How to Conceptualize and Implement a PhD Program in Health Sciences—The Basel Approach |
title_full_unstemmed | How to Conceptualize and Implement a PhD Program in Health Sciences—The Basel Approach |
title_short | How to Conceptualize and Implement a PhD Program in Health Sciences—The Basel Approach |
title_sort | how to conceptualize and implement a phd program in health sciences—the basel approach |
topic | Commentary |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5954309/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29780889 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2382120518771364 |
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