PHD IN
BIOTECHNOLOGY, MEDICINE AND BIOSANITARY SCIENCES
- TRAINING ACTIVITIES
SEMINARS, COURSES AND WORKSHOPS (50 HOURS)
This training activity includes attendance at research seminars, scientific and technical training and specialization courses and specific monographic workshops on a topic related to the student’s research topic.
- Training courses, will be evaluated by means of exams, verification of students’ active participation in lecture sessions and/or presentation of individual or team work.
- Scientific seminars, this activity will be evaluated on the basis of students’ attendance and participation. Students must obtain at least 10 hours per year during the first two years of the doctorate through participation in these activities
CONFERENCES (45 HOURS)
Attendance to national and international congresses related to the subject of the research work object of the Doctoral Thesis. This will be carried out throughout the doctoral program. The temporal planning will be determined by the interest and subject matter of the congresses held each year, in order to guarantee the students the option of participating in those they consider, together with their tutors/directors, more interesting for their training.
TEACHING COLLABORATION (60 HOURS)
Doctoral students may collaborate in the teaching of undergraduate degrees taught in the Faculty of Experimental Sciences, the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Health Sciences of the UFV. This teaching collaboration will only be required to those full-time doctoral students who are beneficiaries of a Predoctoral Researcher in Training (IPF) contract and in no case may it exceed the 60 hours per year established in the Statute of Research Staff in Training (Royal Decree 63/2006 of January 27, BOE February 3, 2006).
MOBILITY (20 HOURS)
The mobility program for PhD students includes:
- Attendance to seminars, workshops and courses of specialization given in institutions other than the Universidad Francisco de Vitoria.
- Research stays in laboratories of other Universities, hospitals and research centers, both public and private. They will be carried out with the prior approval of the director of the Doctoral Thesis, and may have a maximum duration of three months per year of Doctorate, depending on the needs and availability of the candidate and the host institution.
- Collaboration agreements:
- FREMAP, Mutua de Accidentes de Trabajo y Enfermedades Profesionales de la Seguridad Social Nº61.
- Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
- Hospital Beata María.
- Hospital del Henares.
- Centro de Investigaciones energéticas medioambientales y tecnológicas.
- Fundación Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Carlos III.
- Fundación Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas Carlos III (CNIO)
- Hospital Universitario de Torrejón for university teaching in Medicine and Health Sciences.
- Sanitas S.A de hospitales sociedad unipersonal for university teaching in medicine and health sciences.
- Fundación Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Aragón.
- Fundación para la Investigación Biomédica del Hospital Gregorio Marañón.
- Hospital Fundación Alcorcón
- Inova Diagnostic Inc.
- Fundación para la investigación Biomédica del Hospital Universitario La Paz.
- MD Anderson International España S.A.
- Fundación de Investigación Biomédica del H.U Puerta de Hierro Majadahonda.
- University of Miami – Miller School of Medicine
- RIU Agreement (International Network of Regnum Christi Universities)
- Anahuac Mexico, Finis Terrae (Chile)
- Fundación Cardenal Jaima Ortega (Cuba), Universidad Aberta de Portugal.
- Working on bilateral research and doctoral cooperation agreements with Tufts University, Boston, USA; New York Stem Cell Foundation, USA; Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NY, USA.