Course description

As part of your training in the PhD Programme in Biomedicine, you are required to attend 10 research seminars from the following agendas. Please note that only the scientific sessions conducted in English will be considered for assessment.

Eligible Seminar Agendas:

Objective

Attending research seminars is a crucial training activity for doctoral students. While it’s common for students to feel that seminars may not align with their interests or find them unengaging, the primary goal is to develop skills in extracting information and communicating scientific concepts.

Assessment

- Use this attendance form: 10 seminar abstracts in English incorporated into a single PDF document. Each abstract should not be a copy of the speaker's original abstract. Submissions with non-original abstracts or fewer than 10 abstracts will be negatively evaluated.

Deadline: May 31st

Where to submit: upload at your Activities Document (activity code 26), it is located inside your Virtual Secretary. 

Course description

Science in Action is a MELIS-UPF course held at the PRBB. The contents of the course are based on the PRBB Code of Good Scientific Practice and include general research integrity concepts and issues regarding data management, conflict of interest, animal research, human research and publications.

Course format and dates:

There are 2 editions of these course (fall and spring). After enrollment we will contact you in order to choose your preferred edition. The course is structured in two parts (online content and in person seminars that requires physical attendance for interactive sessions, including group discussions and role plays).

Important Dates:

  • Fall Edition: Online Units: November 3rd to December 11th. Attendance Seminars: November 24th to 27st
  • Spring Edition: Online Units: April 21st to May 23rd. Attendance Seminars: May 11th to 14th

Once you have been assigned in one of the editions you will be able to access the course in your AULA GLOBAL (through UPF Campus Global).

Objective

The aim of the course is to familiarise post-graduate students in biomedicine with current ideas and debate around the theme of good research practices.

Assessment

The course is evaluated through Aula Global.

Where to submit and deadline: follow the instructions of your Science in Action teacher through AULA GLOBAL

Contact Information: for any queries related to the course, please reach out to:

General presentation of the activity

Course description

PhD project progress report about the PhD student's work throughout the year including a work plan for the following year. This document must be sent to your TAC members before the first meeting. It must be written in English,

Assessment

- Use this Research and Training Plan form

Deadline: May 31st

Where to submit: upload at your Activities Document and Research Plan (inside Research Plan tab indicating current academic year), it is located inside your Virtual Secretary. 

libraryCourse description

​​This is an online course available through the UPF Aula Global with these contents:

  • IT resources
    • Computer rooms and printing
    • Wireless network and e-mail
    • Office tools, loan service and others
  • Information resources
    • How to start your paper: your search strategy
    • The UPFinder and the loan
    • Databases: PubMed
    • Databases: Web of Science and Scopus
  • Mendeley. Bibliography manager
    • Mendeley

Objective

The aim of the Digital Competence is to provide the knowledge needed to locate, access, use and communicate information from any of the UPF's specialist fields, making efficient use of the IT services that are available to you.

Deadline: the course material will be available in your Aula Global from November 1st to May 30th

Where to submit: as this is an optional course you don't need to submit proof of assistance. But keep in mind that the course professor can check the follow-up of this material and will not respond to subsequent queries explained in the course

PhD Commitment Document

 

Description

The PhD commitment (or PhD commitment document by more than one supervisor) is the document that the doctoral student, the University, the tutor and the thesis supervisor(s) must sign and in which the functions of supervision of the doctoral students are established. The document will include the procedure for the resolution of conflicts and will include the aspects related to intellectual or industrial property rights.

Very important: in case of a change of tutor or thesis supervisor, inclusion or removal of a supervisor, it will be necessary to sign a new PhD Commitment.

 

Procedure

  1. Keep a scanned copy of the document before bring it to the program secretary and upload it to your Activities Document (activity code "Others") 
  2. Please bring to the PhD in Biomedicine Secretary the original copy (document of commitment) signed by all (supervisors, tutor and PhD student) with all the signatures handwritten or all the signatures with digital certificate. 
  3. Once signed by the PhD School responseible, the secretary will return one original to you.
Please note:   Doctoral students enrolled in the Biomedicine doctoral program are not required to complete Annex 1 

 

Regulations

Art. 9 of the Academic regulations for doctorate courses