Healthcare Courses
The Utrecht Summer School offers a varied programme in the field of healthcare. We offer courses for students in nursing aiming to make the first steps toward specialisation. There are courses which focus on specific diseases and patients as well as courses focusing on new possibilities in patient treatment.
9 course(s) found
Healthy Aging
This course will inform you, from different perspectives, about the factors that keep older people healthy and enable them to continue to participate in society. We will focus on a better understanding of the aging process, the prevention of functional decline and preservation of autonomy. Different excursions will let you experience getting older. Prior to the course, you will be given an assignment to conduct a life review with an elderly…
Implementation Science in Global Health
What is the value of research, when knowledge and innovation do not find their way into clinical practice? In this short course, we will provide an entry level introduction to implementation science as an upcoming yet imperative scientific field. We will do so in the context of global health and health inequities, building on fundamental implementation science theory while learning from best-practice examples across the globe.
Biostatistics for Researchers
The course provides an introduction into statistical methodology for life sciences and it discusses a number of statistical techniques for practical data analysis. Concrete examples and case studies are used to apply the theory to practical situations. The statistical techniques covered are several t-tests, chi‐square tests, analysis of variance (ANOVA), (multiple) linear and logistic regression and survival analysis. The course ends with a…
Global Maternal, Newborn and Child Health
This summer course will provide a comprehensive overview of maternal, newborn and child health globally. With an enthusiastic team of experts from all over the world, we will discuss the major challenges which women and children in the world are facing, and we will look at potential solutions. This programme is a collaboration between the University Medical Centre Utrecht (Julius Global Health, Wilhemina Children's Hospital), Amsterdam Centre…
Global Health Ethics & Equity
This summer course focuses on urgent topics in global health ethics and equity. With an enthusiastic team of experts from all over the world, the current major challenges to health equity in the world as well as potential solutions are discussed.
Introduction to Causal Inference and Causal Data Science
How can we learn about causal relations when randomized experiments are unethical, impossible or impractical to conduct? In this one-week in-person course, participants will learn about the latest methods in causal inference with observational data, including: potential outcomes; DAGs and causal graphs; target trial emulation; causal structure learning; quasi-experimental methods; and a variety of methods for handling confounding. You will learn…
Early Childhood research - an update of the state of the art knowledge and methods
The course is offered by the Early Childhood community of the strategic theme Dynamics of Youth. Dynamics of Youth is a multidisciplinary platform that spans all departments of the university. Dynamics of Youth facilitates all researchers in the field of child development. The Early Childhood community specifically focusses on development from conception to six years of age.
ECTMIH Academy presents George Downward - An interactive introduction to Exposome Science
Our health is shaped by environmental factors that we humans are exposed to on a daily basis: what we eat, the air we breathe, our social interactions and lifestyle choices such as smoking and exercising. It explains an estimated 70% of the chronic disease burden. Since most aspects of our environment are modifiable, this provides a huge potential for disease prevention. Leading scientist have formalised the sum of all these environmental…
ECTMIH Academy presents Karijn Kakebeeke - Technical Workshop Photovoice
Photovoice is a qualitative research method used in community-based participatory research that gathers participant-taken photographs and narratives to translate experience into actionable knowledge. Photovoice is commonly used in the fields of community development, international development, public health, and education. In a photovoice study, participants are asked to express their points of view or represent their communities by…