HEALTH SCIENCES
Student
Margoleen Honcoop is 22 years old and currently in the final year of her studies in the Health Sciences programme. She's also searching for a Master's assignment abroad at the moment.
"In 2010, I completed my Bachelor's degree and started my own company. My Bachelor's thesis was about the diffusion of HPV vaccination among physicians in New Delhi, India. To conduct my research, I spent four months in India at a large pharmaceutical multinational company. It was an exciting experience that also provided me with a glimpse of my future field of work."
"When I returned to the Netherlands, I began assisting a family that plans to build and run their own healthcare farm facility for people with dementia. For practical reasons, I decided to start my own company: Honcoop Healthcare Consultancy. I hope to be able to assist more people in 2011 with the knowledge I gained studying Health Sciences, and to make a living out of consultancy."
"There are many opportunities to broaden your horizon in Enschede. I was a member of two boards in 2008 and 2009, and I am an active member of a student society, tennis club and sorority. The skills I acquired over the past five years through these extracurricular activities have helped me to achieve the position in which I now am: owner of my own company and potentially travelling alone to Rwanda to do my Master's assignment!"
Germaine Vos Manager Acute Zorg Euregio
Florentine van Amerongen-Lourens Communication staff member Health Sciences
Alumnus
Sylvia Meijer currently works at the Medical Spectrum Twente (MST). "One of my responsibilities is managing the delivery of quality indicators to several organisations within the Health Care Inspectorate. This process involves a few stages, starting with the distribution of the indicators to the responsible actors in the hospital. They have the data and expertise to provide the relevant information. After receiving the quality indicators, I check to see if they are valid and reliable. Then, since board approval is required before the indicators can be released to external parties, I discuss the results with the executive board. The whole process may sound quite simple, but with almost 500 indicators it's a year-filling cycle. And the quality indicator results are even more essential when you take into account MST's commitment to year-on-year improvement in the quality of care. "
"Managing this cycle well requires sufficient knowledge about diseases, statistics and hospital operations. My day-to-day experience has been that my Health Sciences education has provided me with sufficient background for handling all these issues."
Curriculum Commission
At least forty per cent more first-year students chose for Health Sciences in the 2009-2010 academic year. Job van der Palen suspects that this had everything to do with the programme's new content. The professor and Coordinator of Scientific Research at the Twente Medical Spectrum has been a member of the Curriculum Commission for several years. "We considered it is important that employers saw more value in our students. But the first goal was: making the programme more attractive for students. In the end, we chose to put a stronger accent on the epidemiological and biomedical disciplines. It fits well with the health care profile of the University. At the same time, there was no less attention given to the management disciplines. Our students learn to bridge the gap between modernising technologies and their application in everyday practice. There are few researchers who can write a business case. The future generation of health scientists from Twente will be able to translate scientific insights into practical and progressive policy choices."
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