In February the research school arranged a mini-congress for all 30 PhD students and one of their tutor.  Mikael Lilja, who just recently defended his thesis, shared his personal reflections around the dissertation and gave practical advice regarding the preparation of the thesis and defence. Many prominent researchers gave lectures. Karin Johannison discussed changes in the conception of health and disease, Dan Levy talked about the famous Framingham studies, Stuart Spencer about fraud in published research and Simon Griffin about future research in general practice. In the evening a poster session was arranged and all students in group 2 orally presented their posters and responded to questions in English. This is an important exercise to train in giving a short precise summary of their projects, as they will in future international congresses. The most important result of this meeting was the possibility for all teachers, PhD students and tutors to meet, discuss mutual problems and solutions and future research cooperation.   

Publicerad 2012-02-13

The Third group research students met in September 2011. They were given feedback on their projects by our international teachers; Stuart Spencer, fast track editor of the Lancet and dr Simon Griffin, MRC.

The third group of doctoral students has now been admitted to the National Research School. The group consists of several different professional categories: doctors, nurses, and physiotherapists are already represented in the research school, and in group three we also have one psychologist and an occupational therapist. The new doctoral students are: Nasser Ahmadi, Anna Backeström, Lena Jutterström, Eva-Britt Norberg, Pernilla Ohlin, Kaveh Pourhamidi, Karin Rådholm, Sigrid Salomonsson, Pär-Daniel Sundvall, Carina Wennerholm. The kick-off days for group three take place on 5–7 September in Vindeln outside Umeå.
 

This is the ten new students and one of their teachers.