Mini-congress with PhD students and tutors

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 practice 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.   

Stuart Spencer, The Lancet

Published 2012-02-13