This course is designed to future-proof your career in healthcare. It is intended for students in nursing, physiotherapy, medicine and allied healthcare. This interactive course focuses on acquiring future-ready skills and includes visits to healthcare institutes and technology labs.
This course focuses on key themes such as innovation, rehabilitation, technology, clinical reasoning, motivational interviewing, positive health, intercultural competence, mental and social health, and design. These topics are explored within a multidisciplinary working environment, fostering collaboration and diverse perspectives. Feedback from the class of 2024 highlights a high level of student satisfaction with the course. The course is organized by the Institute for Nursing Studies, UASU Utrecht.
Healthcare professionals, including nurses, physiotherapists, and others, face the challenges of a rapidly changing world. From an international perspective, we observe both global similarities and local differences in healthcare systems. The increasing prevalence of complex diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular conditions, and chronic pain, coupled with a shrinking healthcare workforce, underscores the urgent need to transform healthcare systems. To meet these demands, healthcare professionals must play an active role in shaping a future-ready healthcare landscape.
In this interdisciplinary and intercultural environment, students are encouraged to reflect on their own cultural values and beliefs while exploring their roles as healthcare professionals. The course emphasizes the development of future-proof skills through interactive learning, including visits to healthcare institutions and technology labs. Students will become familiar with the latest technologies and be challenged to think critically, innovate, and collaborate in designing solutions to meet the evolving needs of healthcare.
I take home everything I have been taught, it was one of the best teaching experiences I ever had, I will take back all the skills that a healthcare professional in the 21st century will need and apply it
To equip students with future-proof skills to address healthcare challenges through the integration of state-of-the-art technologies and cultural, biological, mental, and social perspectives.
Two weeks of lectures, workshops and visits (72 contact hours, 53 hours preparation, self-study and final assignment). Prior to the start of the summer school, students will have an assignment. An assessment will follow at the end.
| Professional | Student | HU-student | |
| HIC* | 1050 | 750 | 50 |
| LMIC** | 850 | 550 | n.a. |
*HIC are high-income countries, as classified by the World Bank.
**LMIC are lower and (upper and lower-)middle income countries, as classified by the World Bank. Participants can apply for the LIC/MIC fee based on the location of the institution they are affiliated to.
Please do not make your payment before the discount has been added.
The housing costs do not include a Utrecht Summer School sleeping bag and/or pillow. These are separate products on the invoice. If you wish to bring your own bedding, please deselect or remove the sleeping bag from your order once you apply for the course.
Please include, in your motivation, whether you are a student and are eligible for one of the discounts.
Students from Utrecht University of Applied Sciences (HU) must also register via the HU Osiris-site in order to get the 5 EC.