List of courses for PhD students

PhD students are expected to follow various courses during their PhD programme. For those with a four-year PhD studentship position, courses are mainly attended during the first three years of their PhD programme.

Courses may have different objectives:
1.Required in the context of research/thesis (e.g., statistics, laboratory animal science)
2.General scientific education (e.g. writing in English)
3.Career-oriented (e.g. grant writing, courses outside their own area of research)

Mandatory courses
1.Statistics and methodology
2.Grant writing: formulating and drafting their own project proposal (involving funding from government agencies/contract funding)
3.Scientific writing and presenting in English
4.Dentistry for non-dentists
5.Oral Biology

PhD students are also encouraged to take external courses, e.g. at graduate schools in the area of Health and Life Sciences within VU University Amsterdam, the AMC Graduate School, MOVE, and graduate schools within the Faculty of Science at the University of Amsterdam. Below you will find several links to various courses:

Extra courses

Here you'll find some extra courses for PhD students

The Career Centre of the VU University Amsterdam (access for ACTA employees only)
Courses and learning programmes PhD students

The University of Amsterdam
Language courses

The Language Center, VU University Amsterdam
Language and communication training courses

MOVE
Courses