Academic Development Line Year 1

Fac. Health, Medicine and Life Sciences

Academic Development Line Year 1

Full course description

Next to the Orientation Design Project (RMT1103) and the Lab Skills Line (RMT1102), the Academic Development Line (ADL) is one of the longitudinal lines in the RMT programme. ADL deals with the following general competences: knowing yourself, understanding what acceptable standards and values are, being able to express yourself, organise your study and work, and building relations. The activities in the academic development are subsumed under four competency domains:

Self-regulated learning skills. These skills will help students to develop adequate learning strategies (Study Smart Training) and find their way in the ever-growing data and information jungle (Information Literacy);
Professional behavior. Within this domain, students will become aware of their personal behaviour in teams and how this will affect the functioning of that team and its other members. As a future professional and global citizen, working in teams will be an important skill;
Scientific storytelling. In this domain, students will learn how to share and communicate their results, visions, etc. both in writing and in oral to a specific audience or readership, which includes fellow students, teachers and peers;
Personal development. To help students finding and developing their personal path in the wealth of opportunities that RMT is offering, the ADL contains a series of activities and assignments that stimulate and support students in their personal and academic growth and development.

Course objectives

Self-regulated learning skills.

Be able to reflect on personal learning strategies;
Be able to reflect on planning and management of study;
Be able to appreciate the presence of refresher courses and be able to argue whether or not they need to follow (parts of) them;
Be able to appraise the various topics and specializations of RMT;
Be able to reflect on following the steps of a Creative Problem Solving (CPS) approach (or something similar) when dealing with new challenges.

Professional behavior

Be able to show awareness of different roles and their function in a diversely composed team; provides feedback;
Be able to identify with appropriate social behaviour towards peers and staff;
Be able to describe the conventions of scientific integrity and ethical standards.

Scientific storytelling

Be knowledgeable of the different formats scientific research can be written in and be capable of writing the different sections of a scientific report;
Be knowledgeable of different ways to present information and be able to put this into practice by presenting information (e.g. learning goals, summary within tutorial group or project) with the support of slides.

Personal development

Be able to accept feedback and be able to critically reflect on their learning;
Be able to formulate SMART learning goals – with help of mentor - in order to take adequate action with a view to raising the student’s competencies up to the desired level.

Academic Development Line Year 1