• Certificates (including Examples) / Credits for teaching
• Travel Grants
  
• Submission of the Thesis
  
• Course of the disputation
• Formalities and Page Layout for Dissertations
  
  

Certificates / Credits for teaching

1. Single lecture, seminar and course:
   The certificate handed in must specify date, title and duration. One credit will be given for each 45 minutes. (Example)
2. Series of lectures, seminars and courses:
   The certificate handed in must specify date, title and duration. One credit will be given for each 45 minutes. (Example)
3. Scientific meetings (symposia, retreats, congress):
   The certificate handed in must specify date, title and duration. A maximum of five credits will be given for one day and further two credits for each talk. No credits will be given for "research days", "examinations", "coursework" etc. (Example)

Every student is responsible for claiming his certificates and submitting them to the PhD Office at the end of each semester. There these documents will be checked and each student will be informed about his credits. Only students with a sufficient number of credits will be able to participate in the final examination after having submitted their thesis.

Travel Grants

The Ph.D. Programme can cover the expenses for travel grant application provided your abstract is being accepted for presentation at the meeting or you present a poster.

Conditions:

-          You apply before the journey by sending an informal E-Mail to phd@dekanat.med.uni-giessen.de.

-          The Ph.D. committee accepts your travel grant application.

The Ph.D. Programme can cover expenses up to a total of 750 €:

-          up to 250 € for travel,

-          up to 50 € per night for the accomodation up to a maximum of 5 nights,

-          up to 250 € for registration fee.

Submission of the Thesis

The earliest point in time to submit the thesis is the end of the third summer semester, provided that successful course work is documented by the appropiate number of credit points. The thesis may be written in English or German. In exceptional cases, it might be submitted in another world language after approval of the PhD Board.

Course of the disputation

In case the written thesis has received positive reviews both from the internal and the external reviewer, the examination committee will invite the candidate to participate in an oral examination. The exam will consist of an oral presentation of the research project followed by scientific discussion to which all members of the university are invited. After this there will be a non-public professional talk of at least 30 minutes centring on special as well as interdisciplinary aspects of the previous PhD-training. During this talk specific skills acquired in the field of the student's research as well as adequate application of these methods, will be evaluated. It will be possible to contact the members of the examination committee to discuss the themes of the oral examination some weeks in front of the disputation.