Medical Sciences

This program only accepts applications from graduates or masters in Medicine or Dentistry. Taking into account that these graduates have a high degree of professional differentiation, associated with the exercise of clinical activities, which they will continue during their condition as doctoral students, it is not required to fulfill curricular units (monographic courses, workshops, etc.) during the probationary year. The 60 credits of the probationary year will be obtained by proving clinical practice in the area of the PhD subject and participation in national and international seminars and congresses. This circumstance does not prevent the supervisor of the doctoral program from requiring his student to attend curricular units that he considers essential for the implementation of the research program related to the thesis.

Among other requirements, it is implemented as an absolute condition for delivery and public defense of the Thesis, it is mandatory that the candidate presents at least one scientific article as first author, published or accepted for publication in a Scientific Journal Indexed by the “ISI Web of Knowledge”, and two other articles, under the same conditions, but not necessarily being the first author of any of them; alternatively, it will be required the publication (or acceptance for publication) of only one article, with the student as its first author, if it is published in a high impact journal, that is, with an impact factor greater than 6. 0 according to the bibliographic database “ISI Web of Knowledge”.