NSCPHD1266 Team Sports and Health: Physiological perspectives
Subject area: Exercise Physiology, Sports Physiology, Sports Medicine.
Scientific content
1) Lectures on the fitness and health effects of Team Sport, including the potential of Team Sport in the prevention and treatment of lifestyle diseases.
2) Presentation of relevant methodologies, including echo-cardiography, DXA scanning and muscle biopsy collection, including discussion of the implementation of these methods in Team Sport and Health studies.
3) Student presentations of their PhD projects related to Team Sport and Health.
4) Workshop on designing training studies in the field of Team Sport and Health.
5) Presentations and discussion in relation to the implementation of large-scale Team Sport concepts in the real world.
The aim of the course is to give PhD students more in-depths knowledge on all the recent research on the fitness and health effects of team sports in studies for participants across the lifespan, including studies on the cardiovascular, metabolic and musculoskeletal effects related to prevention and treatment of lifestyle diseases. A series of relevant methodologies will be presented and discussed in relation to future studies. In a practical workshop the students will obtain useful knowledge on how to design and conduct training studies in the area of team sport and health. The course will indeed give the students the possibility to establish a network with other PhD students and experts in their field. Last but not least, the students will be given the opportunity to present their own PhD projects and to receive feedback on their research both from the other participants as well as the lecturers.
- Category
- Hours
- Lectures
- 40
- Preparation
- 90
- Total
- 130
Deadline for registration 1 August 2014.
Questions regarding couse content to Peter
Krustrup,
pkrustrup@ifi.ku.dk
Questions regarding registration to Marianne Støckel,
mas@life.ku.dk
- Credit
- 5 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Continuous assessment
- Marking scale
- completed/not completed
- Censorship form
- No external censorship
Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- NSCPHD1266
- Credit
- 5 ECTS
- Level
- Ph.D.
- Duration
- One week.
- Placement
- Block 2
3 to 7 November 2014.
- Schedule
- Every day from 9:00 to 19:00.
- Course capacity
- Max. 25 participants.
- Price
No fee for PhD students under the Open Market in Denmark and NOVApartners. Other participants are to pay a course fee of 150 EUR. Each student must pay and arrange their own travel and accommodation in Copenhagen during the course.
- Study board
- Natural Sciences PhD Committee
Contracting department
- Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports
Course responsibles
- Peter Krustrup (9-746f767977787679744472697c77326f7932686f)
Lecturers
Several national and three international experts will
participate in lectures, discussions and experiments.
The national lecturers are mainly from the unit of Integrative
Physiology at the Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports,
University of Copenhagen.