COURSE PROGRAM
The HealthPros Network-wide Course programme included the following courses:
| Course | Short description | When & Where | Organising HealthPros member |
| Career Development | Aims to explore personal ambitions and opportunities in shaping a Fellow’s career, nurture awareness of a person’s qualities, weak/strong points, personal drivers for action, ambitions in professional life and employment strategies. | 31-10-2018, Amsterdam | Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands |
| Project management | Aims to learn typical project management skills (SMART goals, milestone-planning, work breakdown structure) and time-management (time-waisters, effective planning). | 30-10-2018, Amsterdam | Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands |
| Gender in Research as a Mark of Excellence | Aims to show how gender is interwoven with all aspects of research, and how the gender dimension of research content contributes to excellence in research using case studies drawn different research fields. | 31-10-2018, Amsterdam | Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands |
| Innovative Scientific Workshop Performance indicators development | Aims to equip Fellows with tools and techniques to successfully develop performance indicators for different users and an understanding of the factors that facilitate and hamper the use of performance indicators. | 29-10-2018, Amsterdam | Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands |
| World of Science | Aims to provide fundamental knowledge and skills needed for scientific research, and to prepare for a PhD Thesis. | 5&6-11-2018, Amsterdam | Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands |
| Handling the media | Aims to equip Fellows to approach and effectively interact with the media to inform the wider audience about their research. | 2-11-2018, Amsterdam | Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands |
| Health Informatics & Information Governance Workshop | Aims to equip Fellows with a deep understanding of health informatics and information governance to confidently use routine health data. | Nov 18-20 2020, Oxford | University of Surrey, Surrey, UK |
| Innovative Scientific Workshop Registry-based performance indicators | Aims to provide insight in methods using registry-based performance indicators to document, monitor and improve the quality in health care. of quality improvements and public release of data. | 8-04-2019, Aalborg | Aalborg University hospital / Aarhus university, Denmark |
| The art of scientific presentations & Open Science publications: Design and Delivery | Aims to examine the importance of Open Science publications and to equip Fellows with presentation skills and techniques enhancing their ability to communicate scientific content to various audiences. | 10-04-2019, Aalborg | Aalborg University hospital / Aarhus university, Denmark |
| Bioethics | Aims to give Fellows a broader base to discuss and analyse ethical problems they meet through their scientific work. | 10-04-2019, Aalborg | Aalborg University hospital / Aarhus university, Denmark |
| Innovative Scientific Workshop Novel statistical techniques for analysing the potential of performance indicators | Aims to provide Fellows with knowledge and skills on advanced statistical techniques increasingly used in the analysis of comparative performance data | 11 and 12-11-2019, Hamburg | OptiMedis AG, Hamburg, Germany |
| Proposal writing | Aims to enable Fellows to understand and apply the concepts and principles of proposal writing within international health and to improve their personal and technical skills in proposal writing for future research grants. | 13 and 14-11-2019, Hamburg | OptiMedis AG, Hamburg, Germany |
| Innovative Scientific Workshop Essential levels of health information for evidence-based performance evaluation | Aims to teach Fellows about the opportunities and available tools and methods for strengthening health policy while complying with world class health data governance. Fellows will learn to apply advanced statistical approaches for a new generation of data systems. | Nov 18-20 2020, Oxford (virtual) | University of Surrey, Surrey, UK |
| Health Care Policy, System Structures, Functions | Aims to give Fellows a broader base to explore the complex management and administrative demands of a modern health system. | Nov 18-20 2020, Oxford (virtual) | University of Surrey, Surrey, UK |
| Organisational behaviour and management | Aims to provide an insight into the fundamentals on which organisations are built and provides analytical processes for understanding behaviour at work and managerial processes. | Nov 18-20 2020, Oxford (virtual) | University of Surrey, Surrey, UK |
| Innovative Scientific Workshop From benchmarking to quality improvement | Aims to introduce the strategies for producing quality improvement starting from performance benchmarking with specific attention for professionals’ engagement, public reporting, application of performance indicators at the different levels of healthcare systems | March 30th-April 3rd 2020, Pisa (virtual) | Scuola Superiori di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy |
| Benchmarking, setting goals and priorities in the healthcare performance evaluation system | Aims to provide insight in the fundamentals and evidence on the use of performance evaluation systems different countries in the healthcare sector at national, regional and organizational level. | March 30th-April 3rd 2020, Pisa (virtual) | Scuola Superiori di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy |
| Transforming Open Science into Open Innovation: Skills and Tools for Entrepreneurship and Technology Management | Aims to introduce students to the fundamental skills and tools regarding technology management in general and high-tech entrepreneurship. | March 30th-April 3rd 2020, Pisa (virtual) | Scuola Superiori di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy |
| Public Marketing for healthcare sector | Aims to provide insight in fundamentals of public marketing to identify population’s care needs; to introduce Fellows to personalised & standardised marketing tools. | March 30th-April 3rd 2020, Pisa (virtual) | Scuola Superiori di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy |
| Innovative Scientific Workshop Performance indicators and health economics | Aims to analyse, interpret and combine performance indicators and economics to identify benefits and cost consequences of healthcare interventions. | March 22nd-26th 2021, Budapest (virtual) | Corvinus University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary |
| Value Based Purchasing of Services and Insurance in the Healthcare and Social Sector | Aims to provide insight in the concept value-based purchasing a strategy used by employers and governments to promote quality and value of health services. | March 22nd-26th 2021, Budapest (virtual) | Corvinus University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary |
| Transferrable skills | In the last phase of a PhD it is essential to assess one’s future career and reflect on one’s professional ambition and make an analysis of both professional and personal strengths and weaknesses. With use of some practical exercises this workshop will make sure the participants get a better view on their own skills.They also will be able to present them with the use of good examples during e.g. a job interview. | November 24th 2021 (virtual) | Hertz, training for scientists www.bhertz.nl |
| Pitching Your research | For scientists, it has become increasingly important to be able to present their research and proposals in a concise and convincing manner. Be it in a meeting with colleagues, for a potential partner outside of the university or in a presentation to procure funding or grants. The participants learn the theoretical principles and carry out short assignments. | December 3rd 2021 (virtual) | Hertz, training for scientists www.bhertz.nl, |