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Follow-up of the Croatian National Report Submitted at the Helsinki ORPHEUS 2007 Conference

This is the first follow-up of the national report submitted at the Third ORPHEUS 2007 Conference: European PhD Programmes in Clinical Medicine, on the state of PhD programmes in Croatia. In Helsinki, we presented the effects of the first two conferences, especially of the Zagreb Declaration, on the PhD studies in the field of biomedicine and health in Croatia. Analysing the past we found that in the last decade, to our disappointment, 75% of theses did not result in any published paper. After this two ORPHEUS conferences and the agreements settled at two symposium in the Croatian Academy of Science and Arts, all four medical schools in Croatia accepted the Zagreb Declaration recommendations, making it impossible to obtain a PhD degree without having scientific papers published. The data from Zagreb Medical School presented for the first time in the text show that above criteria led to a certain decrease in the total number of PhD thesis , but rising trend is evident in the number of thesis based on the previously published three scientific papers in internationally recognised journals. However, because of the interest of PhD candidates in the PhD programmes was higher than the availability of component mentors, etc., a number of young people are not able to complete the thesis according to the new, more rigorous criteria. At the same time, demand for PhD thesis according to the new, more rigorous criteria. At the same time, the demand for PhD holders and new faculty has increased because the "old baby boom generation" is stepping down and there are not enough established young leaders to take their place. Consequently, the schools are burdened with the growing responsibility of balancing between the demands of increasing the quality of PhD thesis and vigorous faculty renewal expected in the coming years.

ORPHEUS; PhD programmes; Clinical Medicine; Croatia

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