Recommended courses for (MD-)PhD students in Clinical Research
The third part of the PhD training alongside the dissertation and the doctoral examination is the acquisition of credits (ECTS).
- For students who started their PhD before 1 August 2025 at the Faculty of Medicine or SwissTPH, the curriculum contains a minimum of 12 ECTS.
- For students who started their PhD after 1 August 2025 at the Faculty of Medicine or SwissTPH, the curriculum contains a minimum of 18 ECTS.
Tip: Some smaller courses do not directly award ECTS. They can be combined with another courses to reach a workload of 30 hours. To add this courses to your academic record, please create a Learning Contract (LC) in MOnA (choosing your supervisor as the assessor and pass/fail as assessment) before the start of the course and follow the instructions of your respective faculty. Please note: LC must be prepared in advance!
Good Clinical Practice
| Course | Provider | Language |
|---|---|---|
| GCP Basiskurs | DKF | Deutsch |
| GCP Aufbaukurs | DKF | Deutsch |
| GCP Refresher | DKF | Englisch |
| Human Research Beyond Clinical Trials: Conducting HRO Projects | DKF | English |
Research Methodology
| Course | Privider | Language |
|---|---|---|
| Advanced Trial Designs for Clinical Researchers | DKF | English |
| Basics of Health Economic Evaluation | DKF | English |
| Designing Clinical Research for Beginning Investigators | DKF | English |
| Designing of Questionnairs and Implementation of Surveys | DKF | English |
| Essentials of Randomised Controlled Trials (RCTs) | DKF | English |
| Methods of Health Policy and Health Systems Research | DKF | English |
| Observational Studies & Analysis of Observational Databases | DKF | English |
| Real World Data – Principles and Methodologies | DKF | English |
| An introduction to systematic reviewing | GSMHS | English |
Statistics
| Course | Provider | Language |
|---|---|---|
| Reading and Writing Statistics in Clinical Publications | DKF | English |
| Seminar series: Statistics in Clinical Research | DKF | Englisch |
| Applied Statistics using R: Analysing Medical Data | DKF | Englisch |
Scientific Writing
| Course | Provider | Langauge |
|---|---|---|
| GSMHS | English | |
| Academic Writing in the Health Sciences | GSMHS | English |
| Meet to Write | GSMHS | English |
Further courses at the University of Basel
| Courses | Provider |
|---|---|
| Course Directory | University of Basel |
| Transferable Skills | Graduate Center |
| Continuing Education Programs | Advanced Studies |
| Various courses | GSMHS |
Further courses
| Courses | Provider |
|---|---|
| Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health |