Doctorate in Health Sciences
- Study duration
- Enrolment and conditions
- Planning doctoral studies
- Follow-up
- Student education
- Doctoral thesis
- Defended thesis
Doctoral studies can either be carried out part-time or full-time.
- Full-time study: maximum 3 years
- Part-time study: maximum 5 years
Study extensions may be granted for the duration of the study programme, when properly justified through a request sent to the Doctoral Academic Committee.
- Students should officially renew their enrolment on the programme on an annual basis.
Students may only enrol on one of the approved doctoral programmes. It is not possible to enrol simultaneously on another programme. - Students will be removed from the programme under the following circumstances:
- Voluntarily renouncing the right to continue on the programme, which should be communicated in writing to the Doctoral Academic Committee.
- At the decision of the Doctoral Academic Committee.
- Failure to pay the annual registration fee within the established period.
- Completing the Doctoral Programme after defending the doctoral thesis.
- Doctoral students may request temporary leave from the course for a maximum period of one year, which can be extended for a further year.
The request must be justified before the academic committee responsible for the programme, who will decide whether or not to grant the leave requested by the doctoral student. - For duly justified reasons, the doctoral student may request the extension that is legally established in the study duration. This request should be sent to the Doctoral Academic Committee with proper justification, three months in advance of the final date for the end of the course duration.
During the study period, in addition to carrying out their research plan, the doctoral student should take part in the educational activities established in the programme.
More specifically, during their first year of study students should present their research and thesis development plan to the Specific Doctoral Committee, as a prior step before the Doctoral Academic Committee approves the research plan. Later, the research plan should be assessed by the university's Research Ethics Committee.
The Doctoral Academic Committee is responsible for carrying out an annual follow-up on all the doctoral students on the programme, through an annual assessment in the Doctoral Activities Document (DAD) and the Research Plan, as well as through reports issued by the thesis director and/or supervisor.
Research plan
During their first year, doctoral students should draw up a research plan (thesis project) that should at least include a methodology and objectives, as well as the materials and schedule that aim to achieve this. Before the end of the first year, doctoral students should present their Research Plan to a committee of external experts from outside the UIC, the Specific Doctoral Committee, so that they can then be approved by the Doctoral Academic Committee.
On an annual basis, the Doctoral Academic Committee will supervise the progress of the research carried out by students through an annual follow-up of the Research Plan.
Doctoral activities document (DAD)
On an annual basis, doctoral students should submit a document that details all the activities they have carried out (training courses, conferences, seminars given, research trips, articles published) to be approved by the Doctoral Academic Committee.
Over the course of their doctoral studies, students should complete educational activities that will round out their profile as a researcher. These activities may be cross-cutting in nature or specific to each programme. Doctoral students, together with their thesis director (and supervisor), will choose the educational activities that are best adapted to their profile and research skills.
The Doctoral School organises cross-cutting educational activities on an annual basis, such as public speaking, research ethics, database management, writing a bibliography, drafting scientific articles, etc.
Doctoral Programmes organise specific educational activities for each programme or line of research.
The Doctoral Thesis can be presented in a traditional format or as a compilation of articles, and should be structured in the following sections:
- I. Introduction: The doctoral student should explain the importance of the topic and the connection between the different articles and how they complement each other.
- II. Hypothesis and objectives: The hypothesis and objectives of the thesis.
- III. Methodology: General description of the methodology used in the articles.
- IV. Research results, made up of:
- Traditional thesis: chapters
- Compilation thesis: articles that have been published or accepted for publication. The articles should comply with the criteria established by the Doctoral Academic Committee for the programme.
- V. Discussion: A general discussion and highlighting the general results of the project.
- VI. Conclusion: list of the conclusions reached during the thesis project.
- VII. Bibliography
- VIII.Annexes: if submitting a Compilation Thesis, you should attach the full text of the published article or the article pending publication.
The thesis should be reviewed by two experts on the topic who are external to the UIC, before being accepted for the oral thesis defence.
Evaluation of the impact of Spanish smoking legislation on tobacco consumption and passive exposure
- Doctoral student: Cristina LIDÓN Moyano
- Thesis supervisor: Dr. José María Martínez Sánchez
- Defense date: 06/10/2017
Symptoms and signs of temporomandibular disorders in children and adolescents, before and after orthodontic treatment
- Doctoral student: María Mar Espinós Solans
- Thesis supervisor: Dr. Andreu Puigdollers Pérez
- Defense date: 13/10/2017
Caracterización de complejos CDK-Ciclina atípicos humanos
- Doctoral student: Eva Quandt Herrera
- Thesis supervisor: Dr. Josep Clotet Erra
- Co-Thesis supervisor: Dr. Javier Jiménez Jiménez
- Defense date: 16/11/2017
Papel de CPT1C en el desarrollo axonal y transporte de endosomas tardíos
- Doctoral student: Marta Palomo Guerrero
- Thesis supervisora: Dra. Núria Casals Farré
- Co-Thesis supervisor: Dra. Maria Carmen Grijota Martínez
- Defense date: 02/03/2018
Factores de motivación de los adultos mayores que promueven la participación en un programa de actividad física
- Doctoral student: Omayra Salgado Cruz
- Thesis supervisora: Dra. Montserrat Virumbrales Cancio
- Co-Thesis supervisor: Dra. Nirzka Labault Cabeza
- Defense date: 22/03/2018
Claves para la mejoría del enfermo en la atención clínica de las personas afectas de un trastorno mental severo
- Doctoral student: Jordi Giménez-Salinas Botella
- Thesis supervisora: Dra. Gemma Prat I Vigué
- Co-Thesis supervisor: Dra. Esperanza Luisa Gómez Durán
- Defense date: 26/06/2018
Características mecánicas y microfiltración de estructuras e PEEK para la confección de prótesis CAD‐CAM implanto-soportadas unitarias. Estudio in‐vitro comparativo
- Doctoral student: Jorge Ortega Martínez
- Thesis supervisor: Dr. Josep Cabratosa Termes
- Co-Thesis supervisor: Dr. Jordi Cano Batalla
- Defense date: 11/07/2018
La ciclina CNTD2: un nuevo inductor del desarrollo tumoral
- Doctoral student: Abril Sánchez Botet
- Thesis supervisor: Dr. Josep Clotet Erra
- Co-Thesis supervisor: Dra. Mariana Ponte Cardoso Ribeiro
- Defense date: 18/07/2018
Atención Paliativa en Pacientes con Neoplasias Hematológicas: un nuevo modelo de atención basado en la evaluación precoz de necesidades
- Doctoral student: Deborah Moreno Alonso
- Thesis supervisor: Dr. Josep Porta Sales
- Co-Thesis supervisor: Dr. Alberto De Sevilla Fernandez Ribosa
- Defense date: 20/07/2018
Noves Ciclines: Omplint una escletxa a la Biologia del Càncer
- Doctoral student: Laura GASA COLOM
- Thesis supervisor: Dr. Josep Clotet Erra
- Co-Thesis supervisor: Dra. Mariana Ponte Cardoso Ribeiro
- Defense date: 27/07/2018
Biomarcadores para el diagnóstico molecular de patología pulpar en endodoncia
- Doctoral student: Claudia Brizuela Cordero
- Thesis supervisora: Dra. Montserrat Mercadé Bellido
- Defense date: 19/09/2018
The epidemiology of catheter-related bloodstream infections in a tertiary care center: Prevention and mortality
- Doctoral student: Patrick Saliba
- Thesis supervisor: Dr. Miquel Pujol Rojo
- Co-Thesis supervisor: Dr. José María Martínez Sánchez
- Defense date: 31/10/2018
Características funcionales y propiedades inmunomoduladoras de células madre mesenquimales de origen pulpar para el desarrollo de un modelo de regeneración tisular: Estudio experimental in vitro
- Doctoral student: Carolina Inostroza Silva
- Thesis supervisor: Dr. Flavio Carrion Arriagada
- Defense date: 21/11/2018
Evaluación de la exposición pasiva al tabaco (segunda y tercera mano), ambientes privados libres de humo e impacto en salud en la población pediátrica
- Doctoral student: Ana Diez Izquierdo,
- Thesis supervisor: Dr. José María Martínez Sánchez
- Co-Thesis supervisor: Dr. Albert Balaguer Santamaria
- Defense date: 23/01/2019
The pathway of forgiveness: unraveling the role of one’s decision to forgive
- Doctoral student: Silvia Recoder Fernández
- Thesis supervisora: Dra. María Fernández Capo
- Co-Thesis supervisor: Dr. Everett Worthington
- Defense date: 08/03/2019
Cirurgia reconstructiva en l'abdomen globulós (postmaternitat i obesitat). Correcció de la diàstasi dels músculs rectes, del lliscament del oblics i creació d'un nou melic
- Doctoral student: Lourdes Martínez Teixido
- Thesis supervisor: Dr. José Serra Renóm
- Defense date: 15/03/2019
Eficacia hipotensora y seguridad de la cirugía filtrante con implante express versus esclerectomía profunda con implante esnoper en cirugía combinada de catarata y glaucoma
- Doctoral student: Marcos Roberto Muñoz Escudero
- Thesis supervisor: Dr. Alfonso Anton López
- Co-Thesis supervisor: Dr. Javier Moreno Montañés
- Defense date: 17/05/2019
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