The courses offered by the Graduate School of Health are developing on an ongoing basis. If you find that a course is missing, you are welcome to contact the head of your graduate programme (GP) (Biomedicine, Clinical Medicine, Forensic Medicine and Odontology/Oral Health or Public Health,) or the PhD administration and suggest that a new course is being set up.

Suggestion and approval of new courses

If you suggest that a new course is being set up, we advise you to find out whether (other) PhD students are interested in your course suggestion.

A number of formal requirements must be met before a course can be approved:

• A course leader must agree with the relevant GP leader on being responsible for the course, this includes a written formal approval to upload alongside your PhD course suggestion.
• The course leader must submit a course suggestion through the link in the right sidebar, including a course budget and a course description (find the templates through the link) to the graduate school. Please note that there can only be 1 course leader per course. Payment of course leader hours and attendance hours can only be made to one course leader. If you share the course leader tasks with another person this will not be remunerated to the other person.
• Based on the recommendation from the head of the GP, the graduate school management must approve the set up and the academic content of the course
• Funding is not guaranteed if courses are submitted ad hoc.
• GSH reserves the right to cancel a course, after the registration deadline, if the number of registrations is low (less than 5 participants) and it does not align with the budget.

To allow sufficient time for the approval process, we kindly ask you to submit your course suggestion no later than 3 months before the course is expected to take place. 

NB! From mid June to mid October the approval process for courses submitted ad hoc will be on stand-by due to the planning of the next year's course portfolio. If a course is submitted during this period we will proceed the ad hoc planning after mid October. 

Please note there can be a delay in planning ad hoc courses if it is submitted around one of the other major holidays (christmas, winter and easter). 

At the Graduate School Health, it has been decided that we will no longer undertake the organisation of residential courses.
Instead, the Graduate School Health will support each PhD student’s participation in residential PhD courses (both internally at AU and externally) with a direct subsidy based on the calculated course ECTS credits.