Doctoral Programme of Applied Medical Science UN790

This professional doctorate has been designed for interested junior researchers as well as for practitioners seeking to relate research to biomedical and clinical practice development. The doctoral candidates are supervised by highly-qualified practitioners intending to do research in their own discipline and develop it further. The training and support of the young academics is effected on the basis of a scientific attitude corresponding to the principles of the Medical University (Good Scientific Practice / Ethics in Science and Research).

Upon completion of the doctoral thesis, the doctoral candidates shall correspond to the following profile for the application of science in the job. Thereby, candidates shall acquire the qualification to work in a specific field of medicine:

• Seek to apply knowledge in contrast to the fundamental research-oriented PhD Programme candidates,
• Support of progress regarding theoretical and practical qualification at a high standard,
• Knowledge of numerous biomedical methods and their application in medical research and practice,
• Continuous improvement of practice through research,
• Effectiveness as professional practitioners,
• Ability to assume personal responsibility and autonomous initiative in complicated and unpredictable situations in the specific field,
• Ability to plan, design, implement and adapt a research project with scientific integrity,
• Ability to give an opinion relevant to medicine in the specific field and to impart this opinion effectively to a specialist and a non-specialist audience,
• Ability to promote technological, social and cultural progress within an academic and professional context in a knowledge society.