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Teaching experience

Pursuant to "Ph.d.-protokollatet" appendix 5, §7, in the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations in public employment (AC) agreement, PhD students can be instructed to take on work tasks equalling a total of 840 work hours.

At the Faculty of Health, it has been decided that you are expected to have 150 hours of teaching and dissemination (including preparation). The 150 hours of teaching is a mandatory part of your PhD.

The teaching should be within the research area of your project, and the main supervisor is expected to provide an appropriate amount of supervision to support you in your teaching assignments.

The teaching assignments are part of your PhD degree programme and are not paid work, regardless of place of employment. 

Examples of dissemination and teaching assignments

  • Teaching students (master's degree, bachelor's degree, professional bachelor's degree students and at PhD courses): Classroom lessons, lectures, exercise instruction, in the training laboratory. You can include preparation when teaching students, please see how to calculate preparation.
  • Communicating information about your academic field and research area through patient associations, boards or at university extensions.  You can include preparation, please see how to calculate preparation.  
  • Giving talks or presentations about your project or academic field to colleagues, secondary school students, hospital staff etc. You can include preparation, please see how to calculate preparation.  
  • Presenting at conferences or congresses (can also be registered for ECTS credits) You can include preparation, please see how to calculate preparation.  
  • Co-supervision in connection with the research module in the continuing education for medical doctors (Supervision of students is calculated in actual time spent and can in total make up 75 hours of the 150 hours in total)
  • Co-supervision of students at bachelor's or master's level (Supervision of students is calculated in actual time spent and can in total make up 75 hours of the 150 hours in total)
  • Co-supervision of research year students (Supervision of students is calculated in actual time spent and can in total make up 75 hours of the 150 hours in total)
  • Co-supervision of exchange students (Supervision of students is calculated in actual time spent and can in total make up 75 hours of the 150 hours in total)
  • Preparing teaching material for online education
  • Written material (e.g. brochures) to layman about subjects within your research area (you can register actual time spent writing. You cannot include preparation time e.g. time collecting data)
  • Taking part in organizing and planning academic events (e.g. conferences and seminars) with scientific relevance to your PhD. You can register 15 hours in total of the 150 hours for organizing events (please note, you cannot register hours for organizing journal clubs)
  • Co-examination at an OSCE exam. You can register 25 hours in total of the 150 hours for co-examination (no practical tasks relating to the exam can be included)
  • Supervising international medical students visiting Denmark via the IMCC Research Exchange scheme. You can register 25 hours in total of the 150 hours for supervising international exchange students.

What does not count as teaching assignments?

  • It does not count as teaching if you assist or help other PhD students with their projects
  • Censor on written exam assignments – both at Bachelor’s and Master’s level
  • Organizing, making a presentation or participating in a journal club
  • Contact to patients does not count this includes disseminating information to patients about treatment and/or inclusion in projects

Registration in MyPhD

You record all activities and hours in MyPhD as dissimination. 

You can include preparation when you teach students and/or give presentations about your project or within your field of research. Please see what dissemination and teaching activities give preparation.

You get 90 minutes preparation (factor 1,5) per hour regardless of the teaching or dissemination activity. One lesson equals 60 minutes.

How to calculate preparation

You multiply the minutes spend on teaching or dissemination with 1,5. E.g.:

  • 15 minutes poster presentation x 1,5 = 22,5 minutes preparation
  • 30 minutes presentation on conference x 1,5 = 45 minutes preparation
  • 60 minutes class room teaching x 1,5 = 90 minutes preparation

Supervision of students is calculated in actual time spent and can in total make up 75 hours of the 150 hours in total.

Preparing teaching material for online education and producing written material (e.g. brochures) to layman about subjects within your research area should also be calculated in actual time spent.