General information Internships
Research Training Periods are an important part of the programme. During these periods, both theoretical knowledge and insight, as well as practical skills are combined and students are prepared for a scientific career. The student will be supported by her/his supervisor in forming a critical analysis and applying an integrated approach to problem solving, thus also improving learning skills.
In the student community on Blackboard full guidelines for the research internships (organisation, assesment and report) are available.
Supervision & guidance during the research training periods
Practical research will be guided closely by the research training period supervisor or daily supervisor (definitions below) during the first two weeks of each practical research project. After these two weeks, the student will be expected to conduct his/her research experiments in an independent fashion. Consultation will be possible at least once every two days with the research training period supervisor or daily supervisor on day-to-day progress and consultation with the mentor is possible all through the project should problems arise. Suggestions will be given by the immediate supervisor to further progress of the research project if requested. The student will however be encouraged to use own initiative based on acquired knowledge to proceed.
The following people are involved in supervision and assessment of the research training periods:
- Research Training Period supervisor
The Research Training Period supervisor is a Principal Investigator (PI) or junior PI, according to the standards set by Radboud university medical center (Radboudumc (j)PI) or RIMLS (RIMLS or Faculty of Science (j)PI). He/she provides the means, both material and intellectual, to enable the student to carry out his/her research project. In particular, regular meetings are arranged with the research training period supervisor to discuss progress. Also the supervisor will support the student, by giving feedback and asking the student to reflect, on their progress in achieving the end/final qualifications that are to be expressed in the thesis (assessment form available from Blackboard). Students are responsible for finding research training period supervisors. Information on PI's of the RIMLS can be found on Blackboard and the RIMLS website.
- Daily supervisor
The daily supervision of a research training period may be done by the daily supervisor (if different from internship supervisor). A daily supervisor may be a senior PhD student or a postdoc.
- External assessor
Each report of a research training period is assessed by an external assessor from the RIMLS. He/she is a PI from (a different department of) the RIMLS, who is sufficiently knowledgeable to assess the research training period. Students will be assigned an external assessor by the Board of Examiners.
Deadlines / Timing
The mark of research training period 1 should be registered before 1 November. In special cases, it can be requested to hand in the marks later, but they must in any case be registered before the student starts the second Research Training Period. Students need to hand in their final version of the report for assessment to the Supervisor and External Asesssor within six weeks after the research training period was completed. Please arrange in time with the Research Training Period Supervisor and External Assessor when they will assess the report.
The mark of research training period 2 should be registered before 15 August to graduate on 31 August. Students need to hand in their final version of the report for assessment to the Supervisor and External Assessor within six weeks after the research training period was completed. Please arrange in time with the Supervisor and External Assessor when they will assess the report.