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Eleven quick tips for running an interdisciplinary short course for new graduate students.
| العنوان: | Eleven quick tips for running an interdisciplinary short course for new graduate students. |
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| المؤلفون: | Timothy E Saunders, Cynthia Y He, Patrice Koehl, L L Sharon Ong, Peter T C So |
| المصدر: | PLoS Computational Biology, Vol 14, Iss 3, p e1006039 (2018) |
| بيانات النشر: | Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018. |
| سنة النشر: | 2018 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Biology (General) |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Biology (General), QH301-705.5 |
| الوصف: | Quantitative reasoning and techniques are increasingly ubiquitous across the life sciences. However, new graduate researchers with a biology background are often not equipped with the skills that are required to utilize such techniques correctly and efficiently. In parallel, there are increasing numbers of engineers, mathematicians, and physical scientists interested in studying problems in biology with only basic knowledge of this field. Students from such varied backgrounds can struggle to engage proactively together to tackle problems in biology. There is therefore a need to establish bridges between those disciplines. It is our proposal that the beginning of graduate school is the appropriate time to initiate those bridges through an interdisciplinary short course. We have instigated an intensive 10-day course that brought together new graduate students in the life sciences from across departments within the National University of Singapore. The course aimed at introducing biological problems as well as some of the quantitative approaches commonly used when tackling those problems. We have run the course for three years with over 100 students attending. Building on this experience, we share 11 quick tips on how to run such an effective, interdisciplinary short course for new graduate students in the biosciences. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1553-734X 1553-7358 |
| Relation: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5875739?pdf=render; https://doaj.org/toc/1553-734X; https://doaj.org/toc/1553-7358 |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006039 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/80daa5248d2d4de1b286ad1de3fe44bc |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsdoj.80daa5248d2d4de1b286ad1de3fe44bc |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 1553734X 15537358 |
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| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006039 |