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Impact of PhD students' background on their attitude towards the quality of a biomedical PhD program at Faculty of Medicine Osijek-quality assessment

Increasing advancement of medicine has its basis in the development of various scientific fields, including biophysics, pharmacology, molecular biology etc. ; and it has a strong effect not only on human medicine in basic and clinical medical science, but also public health and primary medical care, pharmacy, dentistry and veterinarian medicine leading to a need for development of interdisciplinary PhD programs. At the Faculty of Medicine Osijek increasing number of PhD students-high educated nurses, dentists, pharmacist and molecular biologists enroll PhD program of biomedicine and health, thus we aim to adjust our program to their background. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the quality of PhD program of biomedicine and health at Faculty of Medicine Osijek, Croatia, as well as the satisfaction of PhD students with curricula and communication. Additional aim was to determine fields that are not covered by the program and could be beneficial for the personal development of PhD students. 57 students were given an anonymous questionnaire, and were ask to score (1-least satisfied to 5-very satisfied) different aspects of the PhD program, including the quality of teachers, curriculum, communication, covered fields trough offered subjects, teaching material, practical teaching etc. Students were overall very satisfied with the PhD program, with the lowest grade given for the practical application of telemedicine (3.2±0.94) and the highest grade given for the readiness of the program management to implement changes into the curriculum and organization (4.5±0.75). There were no differences in their satisfaction nor how their rated different aspects of the program given their background ; however, they had suggested new topics for implementation into the program. PhD students were satisfied with the program, and the results of this study enabled us to identify fields not covered by the curriculum and will be considered by the program management in the future.

PhD student; university; PhD program; quality assessment

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