Our education

We contribute to the curriculum of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, which allows general practitioners and biomedical scientists to graduate with a thorough knowledge of infectious disease prevention and a rational antibiotics policy. read more

Our education

Our mission is to ensure that general practitioners and biomedical scientists graduate with a thorough knowledge of infectious disease prevention and a rational antibiotics policy. That is why these subjects form an important part of the standard curriculum for these students.
 
We also offer Dutch and international students the opportunity to participate in a minor where they can specialize in infectious diseases if they have a particular interest in the field. These programs are available in the following subjects: Opportunistic infections, the immune response to infections of the host, and global health. The courses are open for exchange students to follow, see the tabs below for more information about these courses.


Our degree programs

These explicitly transfer our expertise in the field of infectious diseases to new, young medical professionals during their specialist degree programs. read more

Our degree programs

At the Radboud university medical center for Infectious Diseases, various professionals collaborate in a multidisciplinary manner. They explicitly transfer their expertise in the field of infectious diseases to new, young medical professionals during their specialist degree programs. Infectious diseases form an important part of the degree programs for:
  • medical microbiologists
  • internist-infectious disease specialists (= differentiation year 5/6)
  • pediatric infectious disease specialists/immunologists
  • hospital pharmacists, with specific differentiation year in Infectious Diseases.
  • nursing specialists in infectious diseases

Opportunities for international students

We have the ambition to implement international collaboration and shared education possibilities in education of our bachelor programmes Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.  read more

Opportunities for international students

The field of medical sciences is rapidly expanding and country borders are becoming less of a barrier for achieving great science. Health problems need to be solved on a global scale for more impact on healthcare.  Internationalization is happening everywhere, also in education. Therefore, we have the ambition to implement international collaboration and shared education possibilities in education of our bachelor programmes Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. 

In a joint collaboration of the RCI coordinators of education, we decided to open our bachelor minor tracks (semester of September to January) for 3rd or 4th year international students in de field of Medical Sciences. Only a limited amount of placements are reserved to ensure the best quality in education. 
Information about the specific courses can be found in the tab ‘Our bachelor minor tracks’.

For questions about the possibility of following these minor tracks, please contact Koen van Aerde. 


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Bachelor - Master - Postgraduate



Our bachelor minor tracks


  • The focus of this minor is research in global health. You will acquire essential scientific knowledge and skills to analyze global health  issues in the field of infectious diseases, thereby linking molecular, clinical and population level aspects. You will learn to critically assess interventions that are aimed to reduce the global burden of infectious diseases and how to address these issues in low- and middle income countries. After completion of the Minor, students are able to:

    1. Critically assess molecular and biological approaches to fundamental research on infectious diseases that are of global significance.
    2. Understand the pathogenesis of certain infectious diseases and the options and limitation of infectious disease control.
    3. Apply practical knowledge on important aspects in the design of programme evaluation and clinical trials, and get hands-on experience in the handling, analysis and interpretation of research data for informing public health decisions.
    4. Apply mathematical models on the impact, costs and cost-effectiveness of HIV/AIDS control interventions; and use multiple criteria decision analysis for priority setting of health interventions
    5. Describe and analyze the main building blocks of a (national) health system and critical aspects of good health governance.

    Coordinator: Prof. R Baltussen, Department of Health Evidence



Our master courses


  • Description

    Microorganisms are a leading cause of disease. In this course, we will discuss different classes of microbes of medical importance. As several courses within the Microbiology MSc program focus on the biology of bacteria, we will discuss viruses, fungi and parasitic protozoa. Focusing on important representatives in each class, the biology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, treatment, and prospects for vaccine development will be presented.
    The course consists of lectures, interactive lectures, self-study assignments, and group assignments. Assignments will be posted on BrightSpace.

    Objectives

    At the end of the course, the student

    1. has obtained insights into the field of Medical Microbiology, including diagnostics, antibiotic resistance and antibiotic stewardship, and infection control.
    2. is able to describe important characteristics of different classes of microbes that cause human disease (fungi, viruses, and parasites).
    3. understands important concepts in transmission, pathogenesis, vaccine development, therapy and drug resistance.
    4. can describe the life cycles of major classes of viruses.

    Relation

    This part is mandatory for students of the MSc track “Microbiology” within the MSc program Medical biology. There is room to place additional students from other programs (up to a total of 30 students).

    • Coordinator: Ronald van Rij (dept. Medical Microbiology,Radboudumc), rci@radboudumc.nl 
    • Vice-coordinator: Pascal Miesen (dept. Medical Microbiology, Radboudumc), rci@radboudumc.nl 



Our postgraduate courses


  • The Center of Expertise in Mycology of Radboud University Medical Center / Canisius Wilhelmina Hospital together with the Foundation Atlas of Clinical Fungi will organize a hands-on course on fungal identification.

    This course is specially designed for lab technicians, but also other workers in lab diagnostics may wish to attend. Background of fungal classification will be explained in detail, with both theoretical and practical sessions. The relevant fungi will be shown, and brief introductions will be provided into other diagnostic techniques, such as PCR and Maldi-tof. A special session will be devoted to susceptibility testing. The course will be didactic in such a way that no special mycological background is required. The one-week course will terminate with an examination and certificate. Lectures will be given by Hein van der Lee, Sybren de Hoog and Paul Verweij.

    Read more about the International Course Identification of Medical Fungi