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Visibility of PhD Programmes in Biomedicine and Health Sciences in the European Region

Europe is undergoing reforms of higher education intending equivalence of degrees and mobility of students, teachers, and scientists what requires transparent structure of PhD programmes and availability of information. In order to encompass as many PhD programmes as possible, we pooled together three existing lists of schools (Databases of Medical Schools of Institute for International Medical Education, Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research, Orpheus Database of European PhD programmes). We checked carefully their web addresses and extended the list by additional schools found by Google search. There were more than 540 institutions across 50 countries in the European region. Out of that number 499 institutions have their own web pages, 206 of them (41%) have pages in English. We were not able to understand language of 230 institutional web sites and out of remaining 269 institutions we confirm existence of PhD program at 203 (75%). Only 50% of them offer information about admission criteria, description of study programmes and acceptance of foreign students but some still miss detailed information about courses and tutorial fees. Most web sites offer insufficient information about the duration of study, requirements for dissertation, possibilities of grants and study in English. Although international visibility of PhD programmes is a requirement for mobility and harmonisation it is still insufficient.

PhD programme; Doctoral sudies; Europe; web pages

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