1. Been there, done that … some of the time
LK, PhD student Mia Rinta-Jaskari
University of Oulu, Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine

2. My study path Started medical studies 2011
Part of the Pihlajaniemi’s group in 2012
Accepted to UniOGS in 2013
Doctoral training plan 9/2015
Year of from medical studies
LL 2018 (?)

3. How to combine basic studies and doctoral training?
Good guidance – demand it if you don’t have it
Summer time working
Holidays = work
Free periods during the day = work
Boring obligatory lectures = work
Get remote access to your computer!
if you like to work at home
Plan ahead, keep calender, change obligatory studies with someone
Take a year off from your basic studies?

4. What it has given Conferences abroad Lots of new contacts
Apply grants, remember UniOGS travel grants
If you want to go, studies are not the restricting part (science is the only exception when you can be away)
Lots of new contacts
Presentation skills
Group presentations -> presentations in the events of university-> international presentations
Helps also in own studies giving the presentations (and less job )
Experience to find knowledge and write
Practice with grant applications -> get money, get experience
Also school stuff comes easier
Better language skills
Learning of orderliness, perseverance and handle setbacks

5. What I’m gonna do with this?
Critical evaluation of the new studies and knowledge -> won’t blindly accept what others say, f. ex. drug companies
Benefit for career and in job application?
Teaching, hospital environment
Possibility to continue research
Possibility to leave abroads afterwards to do Post doc – Getting clinical doctoral license may be harder
Lots of interesting and more specific knowledge about things and interest to find out how things work -> deeper understanding for clinical work

6. Altogether
It gives more than takes: experience, new people, moments of success, knowledge, trips to abroad…
It is still easier now than later
Remember to have a life also outside the school and research 

7. Thank YOU!