Inter-University Doctoral Program in Aging and Chronic Diseases (PhDOC)

Cycle

Terceiro ciclo

Degree

Coordinator

Profª. Doutora Catarina Isabel Neno Resende de Oliveira

Education objectives

In strategic and scientific terms, students should be capable of identifying the current major strategic technologic and scientific research fields, as well as high impact socioeconomic topics, within the scope of aging and chronic diseases. In technical and methodological terms, students should acquire competences that will allow them to choose and integrate the tools and experimental approaches that best respond to the scientific questions raised, in an adequate, coherent and critical manner. Therefore, students should be able to identify a pertinent and relevant scientific question, and plan an integrated and multidisciplinary scientific research project that is competitive according to the most demanding scientific quality standards. In the course of their doctoral thesis work, students should be capable of developing, in an autonomous and independent manner, a set of research techniques that allow them to test, in an adequate, clear and objective manner, their hypotheses.

Degree pre-requisites

Approval in 240 ECTS (60 ECTS in the Curricular Units and 180 ECTS in the Dissertation/Thesis)

Access to other courses

 

Structure

1st Year
Code	Name	ECTS
1071000	Research Methods and Techniques	10
1071001	Laboratory Rotation I	10
1071002	Laboratory Rotation II	10
1071003	Laboratory Rotation III	10
1071004	Aging and Chronic Diseases I	5
1071005	Aging and Chronic Diseases II	5
1071006	Aging and Chronic Diseases III	5
1071007	Thesis Project	5

2nd, 3rd and 4th Year
Code	Name	ECTS
1071008	Dissertation	180