BioTechMed and Nutrition Interdisciplinary Team Training (BITT)

BioTechMed and Nutrition Interdisciplinary Team Training (BITT)

Objectives and content
This course gives you the opportunity to think about solutions to a disease-related problem and to obtain skills such as working in an interdisciplinary team with master students from the Graduate School of Life Sciences, Medicine Master ‘SUMMA’, and master students from the Technical University Eindhoven and Nutrition and health from WUR.
The overarching aim is, that - based on a real-life patient-oriented problem (e.g. inflammatory bowel disease) - future doctors, engineers, nutrition specialists and biomedical scientists will collaborate to come up with a potential solution.

Work formats
Four plenary days on location(UMC Utrecht, TU/e and WUR)
Small scale group work, with students from different universities
Active participation and planned self-study
Instructional Lectures
Workshops
Presentation & Poster
Reflection essay

Place within the curriculum
The BITT course is planned to start end of Februarybut spans over 2 months. Students are supposed to plan their own time schedule.

Literature
The course is based on the following sources:

Required material
N.A.

Recommended material

• Repko A.F. & Szostak R. 2017. Interdisciplinary research: Process and Theory. 3rd ed. Sage Publications.
• Rutting L., Post G., Keestra M., De Roo M., Blad, S., De Greef S. 2016. An introduction to interdisciplinary research - theory and practice. Amsterdam University press

Please also refer to the general textbook list

Assessment

• Attendence
• Active participation
• Communication and collaboration skills
• Interdisciplinary competences
• Individual reflection on interdisciplinary communication and collaboration
• End product: (report (50%) + poster & pitch (50%))

Contact
Mail: Dr. R.R. de Jonge, r.r.dejonge-4@umcutrecht.nl

You will be enrolled for this course by administration of the programme of this course.

You must meet the following requirements

• Enrolled for one of the following degree programmes
• Selective Utrecht Medical Master (SUMMA), Master, Full-time