Training Plan
Mandatory Training Activities
MANDATORY CROSS-CUTTING
First year for full-time researchers-in-training and first or second year for part-time researchers-in-training.
Advanced document search and management techniques applied to research.
Assessment and evaluation of scientific production. 12 H. Transversal.
Statistics applied to Research.
SPECIFICS
Second or third year for full-time researchers-in-training and third or fourth year for part-time researchers-in-training.
Mandatory Annual Activities
Mandatory for all students regardless of year and status (full-time or part-time)
Pre-doctoral Day
Work meetings with supervisor(s)
Training Complements
The doctoral program´s Academic Committee will determine if any additional training (coursework, research) is required on a case-by-case basis.
Optional Activities
Ethical use of scientific literature
Attend Annual Scientific Conferences
Seminar on bioethics in translational research
Rolling training in lab methods for biomedical research
Clinical and Translational Research Rotations
Internship in National and Foreign Biotechnology Companies (according to availability)
Data Analysis Course with R
Skills
BASIC AND GENERAL SKILLS
– Comprehensive understanding of a field of study and mastery of related skills and research methods.
– Ability to devise, design, create, implement and adopt a significant process of research or development.
– Ability to push the limits knowledge through original research.
– Ability to analyze, assess, and synthesize new and complex ideas in a critical fashion.
– Ability to engage the academic and scientific communities, and society at large, with your fields of knowledge, through international scientific standards and languages
– Ability to promote, both academic and professional contexts, scientific, technological, social, artistic and cultural progress within the knowledge society.
PERSONAL SKILLS AND ABILITIES
– Coping in contexts where specific information is limited.
– Finding the key questions that must be answered in order to solve a complex problem.
– Designing, creating, developing, and undertaking new and innovative projects in your field of knowledge.
– Working both independently and as part of a larger team, in an international or multidisciplinary context.
– Integrating knowledge, dealing with complexity and forming opinions
based on limited information.
– Criticism and intellectual defense of solutions.
OTHER SKILLS
– The student will acquire all the basic and general competencies referred to in article 5 of the 2011 99 RD