Research Seminars
Participation in research seminars organized by the different research groups, in which the latest advances in the different lines related to the program are discussed. Doctoral students will be able to participate in this activity from their admission to the program with a dedication of 21 hours over 4 years for full-time students and 7 years for part-time students. The estimated time for each seminar will be 3 hours/seminar, so the doctoral student must participate in at least 7 seminars during his/her years in the doctoral program.
In addition, for new students, it will be mandatory to complete, during the first year, the four seminars of “Management of UCAM Doctoral Programs”. These will be recognized as 10 hours of seminars. Thus, they will be required to additionally complete at least four other research seminars.
Person Responsible or teaching and and Assessment
The objective of this activity is for the doctoral student to learn about the latest research being carried out within the program to which he/she belongs in order to be able to establish collaborations between different lines of the program. On the other hand, this type of activity allows the doctoral student to be trained in subjects other than their own and research so that they can broaden their knowledge in the area of Health Sciences.
Doctoral students will have at their disposal, through the computer platform of the virtual campus, didactic material and associated tasks on different topics of interest for the lines of research of the Doctoral Program included in different seminars. For each seminar, analysis and synthesis exercises will be programmed that doctoral students will develop individually, in order to reinforce their critical capacity and written expression.
- Students have access to the teaching material and tasks of the seminars proposed by the PhD Programme in Health Sciences related to the areas of Medical Sciences, Nutrition and Food Technology, through the virtual campus platform.
- Seminars can be carried out at the student's convenience (the deadline for the activities is established in the yearly calendar proposed by EIDUCAM).
- For each seminar, the student must watch the video lecture and the presentation. After that, he/she will have to complete two tasks on the Virtual Campus:
- A multiple-choice questionnaire. Once completed and submitted, the correction is done automatically and if all answers are correct (students have 5 attempts to get it right), students are allowed access to the next task.
- Write a PDF report on the content of the seminar and include it in the corresponding assignment. The report will consist of an abstract of 600 words (approximately) and must include at least three bibliographical references (according to Vancouver style) related to the area of study of the seminar.
- The person in charge of the activity will correct the reports and grade them as a Pass or a Fail. If the grade of the report is Fail, the student will have to make the indicated corrections and resubmit the report before the submission deadline (unlimited resubmissions).
- Upon completion of the evaluation, a certificate will be issued for each passed seminar. The student must upload this certificate to the corresponding activity on LAUREA, which must be validated by his/her tutor.
- Students who have taken seminars outside the PhD programme must upload the corresponding certificates to LAUREA. Said certificates will be validated by their tutor. Seminar certificates will be issued and sent to the student's email “@alu.ucam.edu”, at the end of the academic year.