10th SPINE Summer School 2024 - Registrations are open
The 2024 edition of the Swiss PhD Platform in Nursing Science Education (SPINE) Summer School is centered around the topic of "Establishing value-for-money of healthcare interventions ". This year's Summer School will be hosted by the University of Basel.
The 10th Swiss PhD Platform in Nursing Science Education (SPINE) Summer School will bring international scholars and PhD students together to learn designing behavior change interventions in healthcare. The Summer School 2024 will be held in Basel from August 19-22 and offers a mix of lectures and active group work led by senior researchers from different fields, formative feedbacks from peers and experienced researchers to foster interaction and critical thinking.
This year summer school will sensitize participants to the crucial need for cost-responsible decision-making in healthcare.
Health-economic assessments play a pivotal role in evaluating a wide range of interventions, including drugs, medical technologies, nursing and allied health interventions, preventive or screening programs, and system and workforce changes. To ensure reliable valuations of these interventions, thorough comparative analyses are essential. Such analyses consider the costs involved, immediate and downstream, as well as their consequential impact, such as changes in health states, improved nurse-patient ratios, social implications, or potential gains in life-years.
By the end of this course, participants will have developed the following capabilities:
- Foundational Understanding: Attain a foundation in health economic evaluation and comprehend common questions.
- Input Identification: Identify crucial inputs necessary for health economic evaluations, including utility values and cost inputs, and have the ability to locate them.
- Methodological Versatility: Acquire an understanding of a range of methodologies for assessing the preferences and value of healthcare interventions, encompassing discrete choice experiments, willingness to pay, and outcomes-based valuation.
- Practical Application: Apply the knowledge and techniques acquired during the course within one of three key areas: workforce, complex intervention, or drugs.
- Understand the essential health economic evaluations: Budget effectiveness, and impact, cost-utility analysis
- Emerging metrics: Gain insight into emerging alternative metrics for assessing the benefits and harms of treatment.
The 2024 Summer School is a 4-day intensive course including lectures and group work. The course will be taught in English. Participants will also have the opportunity to discuss their own research project.
Registration
Registration is possible via this link until July 15th, 2024.
Program & key information
Please consult the attached program for all further information. Regular updates will also be posted on the SPINE website.
Course Fees*
- PhD students affiliated with SPINE (INS, UNIL) and PPHS: Free
- PhD students not affiliated with SPINE or PPHS**: CHF 720
- Post-doctoral fellows: CHF 720
- INS- and UNIL Alumni: CHF 720
- Other participants: CHF 1’120
Organisers
SPINE is an educational platform for doctoral students working towards a PhD in Nursing Science at the Universities of Lausanne and Basel. SPINE provides educational courses and Summer schools for doctoral students in nursing and other health-related disciplines, along with other events, such as the Doctoral Research Day.
SPINE Directors
- Prof. Anne-Sylvie Ramelet (IUFRS - UNIL/CHUV)
anne-sylvie.ramelet@chuv.ch
+41 (0) 21 314 23 05 - Prof. Michael Simon (INS - UNIBAS)
m.simon@unibas.ch
+41 (0) 61 207 09 12