New elective course at medicine targeted at innovation and industry
Two new business-oriented elective courses are now ready for medicine students. With the new courses, coming medical doctors can get training in how to carry out innovation projects and get an insight into how medicinal products are developed approved.
Increasing demand for medical doctors from industry and a growing orientation towards the private sector labour market at AU has given the business-orientation of the medical degree programme a boost. One result of this is the two elective courses for students of medicine aimed towards business and industry.
"The degree programme in medicine is a professional degree programme and there has always been a business-oriented aspect deeply integrated in the programme. Virtually all of these graduates will find employment at the hospitals after graduating, so this has naturally enough dominated the degree programme’s composition," says Per Höllsberg, who is director of studies at medicine, before continuing:
"Now we are doing something new. There has been a wish to incorporate the concept of innovation into the degree programme and to better equip the coming medical doctors to also work in jobs outside the hospital sector. We will therefore offer two elective courses, where one trains the students to think about innovation and the other aims directly at the industry. I am certain the students will welcome the new elective courses and that they will be in great demand when the students register for the two courses," says Per Höllsberg.
'Creative Specialists' and 'Development of pharmaceutical products: Development, approval and regulation in industrial, clinical and administrative frameworks' are the titles of the two elective courses that are being offered to students on the master's degree component of the medical degree programme in the autumn semester 2017.
The two elective courses – together with a new two-year business-oriented talent and honours programme – are part of the business-orientation of Health’s degree programmes.
About the business-oriented elective courses
Development of pharmaceutical products: Development, approval and regulation in industrial, clinical and administrative frameworks
One of the business-oriented elective courses, ‘Development of pharmaceutical products: Development, approval and regulation in industrial, clinical and administrative frameworks' focuses on the development of medicinal products and collaboration with the pharmaceutical industry.
The focal point of the course is the role of the medical doctor in the interaction between industry, science, the clinic and health authorities in the development of medicinal products. The course aims to provide the students with insights into aspects of pre-clinical pharmaceutical development, good clinical practice in connection with the design of clinical trials, the authorities' monitoring and related health-economic and ethical aspects.
The elective course 'Development of pharmaceutical products: Development, approval and regulation in industrial, clinical and administrative frameworks' has been developed by Britt Elmedal Laursen, who is associate professor at the Department of Biomedicine and specialty registrar at the Department of Molecular Medicine at Aarhus University Hospital.
Creative specialist
The elective course 'Creative Specialist’ intends to strengthen the coming medical doctors’ competences as creative, innovative and medical specialists, so they can act in a world where knowledge is generated at a speed that makes it difficult to implement before new evidence is created.
Based on actual needs and issues from the healthcare sector, the students must plan innovation projects that build bridges to other specialists and professional occupations. The course intends to equip the students to contribute to research and development by being able to identify relevant needs for change, innovate with focus on the effects for patients and the healthcare sector, and implement solutions that generate value for society.
The elective course 'Creative specialist' has been developed by MD, PhD Martin Vesterby, who is director, innovation and research, at Inno-X Healthcare.
Contact
Director of Studies Per Höllsberg
Aarhus University, Department of Biomedicine
Tel.: (+45) 5136 2353
Email: ph@biomed.au.dk