Additional information about lectures
Location:
University hospital for pediatrics - pediatric nephrology - E7
Währinger Gürtel 18-20
A-1090 Vienna
Student support
Each student has a mentor who serves as an advisor during all steps of scientific work - whether it be clinical studies or studies on the bench. Students set up a detailled dissertation proposal drawing general guidance from their mentors; different designs of basic and clinical research may be integrated.
Basic Lectures
The basic lecture's aim is to deal with organ-specific aspects of chronic organ failure, principles of replacement-therapy and transplantation as well as with more general aspects of organ damage and transplantation. The basic lecture is therefore designed to enable students to acquire a fundamental knowledge; a further intention is to provide a framework for the independent, mostly highly-specific scientific thesis subject.
Journal clubs and progress reports (12 hours, will be continuously held)
Journal clubs and progress reports are weekly courses within each student's research group. We strongly encourage students to attend other research groups' journal clubs in order to stimulate close scientific communication and cooperation. Journal clubs are the time and place to critically read and discuss scientific articles as part of the process – for students and for lectors. Understanding and ability to relate to and interpret clinical trials and experimental work fosters the students' independent scientific writing skills.
Every week a journal club and progress report will be held
in combination with the basic lecture (with focus on the progress report).
One research group will organize the journal club and determine the
respective topic by turns; students from all other research groups are
invited and expected to join! The main goal is a lively and open discussion
of scientific work attracting as many participants as possible. What journal
clubs aim at is to prepare students for future presentations of experimental
results in front of a critical audience.
Once a year students are to submit formal progress reports on their
dissertation for evaluation reasons; these progress reports will be
showcased after public announcement.
Practical Seminar (4 hours will be held every 2nd year / alternately to basic lecture)
Practical seminars are weekly courses. We strongly encourage students to also attend other practical seminars to stimulate cooperation. Case studies in organ failure, -replacement and transplantation will be presented in an interactive manner in order to promote analytical thinking and practical problem solving; depending on the teaching faculty member, clinical cases or laboratory problems will be addressed; ethical and societal issues are to be discussed; another focus will be made on presentation techniques in order to teach students to communicate clinical issues and scientific results in an easy to understand language.
Thesis Seminars for doctoral students (total of 12 hours)
At the heart of the elective courses are regularly seminars (varies
from one to three weekly hours); these seminars cover selected chapters
spanning from organ-specific to more interdisciplinary key aspects. Seminars
will be hold on appointment with the researchers involved; time and place
will be set individually.
The main goal of the seminars is to provide students with deeper insight into
lecture contents. Every student is free to choose from the whole range of
offered seminars, regardless the research group he is affiliated to.
The individual goal of the seminars is to provide students with an in depth
survey of their thesis subject matter; moreover seminars will grant
theoretical access to integral methods of clinical and experimental research.
Current subjects of the thesis seminars will be announced in the university
course catalog (look up " Doktoratsstudium der Medizinischen Wissenschaft
Dissertationsprogramm – POeT, Programm für Organversagen, -ersatz und
Transplantationsmedizin").
Additional to the program specific mandatory and elective lectures and
courses and seminars in your chosen thematic program you have to attend
courses within the so-called "Propedeutics (total of 6 hours)".