The phases of a PhD trajectory Orientation What is a PhD? Find out if a PhD trajectory is something for you During your PhD Find all information needed during your PhD trajectory here PhD Graduation At the end of your PhD journey your graduation is coming up. Find more information here Search in all subjects Search About the doctoral school The Amsterdam UMC Doctoral School supports PhD Candidates and their supervisors by information provision, administration, advice and education. Read More PhD courses Our course program helps PhD candidates in conducting independent, original and scientifically significant research, and critically evaluating their own work and that of others. Read More News New course 'Be Yourself' to enhance self-awareness, resilience & compassion! Doing a PhD can be challenging as it often requires hard and independent work with rare moments of gratification. We developed the ‘Be Yourself’ travel kit to help you build awareness, resilience, and compassion to face the challenges of self-doubt and self-neglect during your PhD journey. Medical Business Projects Are you interested solving a real organizational problem within a healthcare insitution and meaningfully contributing to healthcare? Apply for the Medical Business Projects spring project! Blog 14: New Year and New Beginning – Letting go of old stories Our PhD Advisors have a lot of experience with issues that may arise during the PhD trajectory and like to share their insights via their blog! Read Blog 14: New Year and New Beginning - Letting go of old stories. LUMC/PJ Futurelab online courses for biomedical professionals; scholarships available In 2023 LUMC/PJ Futurelab offers three online learning-by-doing courses. The courses are for post-graduate biomedical professionals currently working in academia, industry, business developers, Knowledge Transfer Offices (KTOs), or regulatory authorities. In these courses, you will be guided by world-renowned experts, including real-time video conferences with teachers and other participants, providing a highly interactive experience. UvA – Call for proposals Instruments I (Seed grants) and II (Midsize projects) The UvA 'Theme-based collaboration' programme has made budget available for Seed grants & Midsize projects! Deadline 24 February. Reporting & Signaling Doctoral School In order to contribute to a pleasant and safe PhD working environment, the Doctoral School wants to actively do something with the information we receive from the coaching conversations. For this reason, we drafted a reporting and signaling plan to enable us to signal and help with recurring problems with departments and/or supervisors. All news Get to know: Amsterdam Student Association of PhD's (ASAP) ASAP is the Association of Amsterdam UMC PhD candidates. Founded in 2021, ASAP strives to offer a professional and social network for PhD candidates at Amsterdam UMC and its affiliated centers. Read More Links & Supportive services for PhD Candidates A collection of links to websites that may be of interest for PhD candidates. Read More Get in contact with the Doctoral School Do you have questions, comments or are you interested to receive the newsletter? Contact us