Application  for 2023/24/2 semester

Deadline: 20 November 2023 – 15 December 2023

Interviews will be organized in January 2024.

Applications can be submitted via the following link:
(Registration is only possible with a university email address)
https://forms.office.com/e/Qvvi42zLQm?origin=lprLink

No printed/posted documents are to be sent to the Doctoral Office.

Admission decision will be taken by a scientific board, based on the Candidate’s general and topic-related knowledge and previous scientific activity.

Admission decision will be released on the day of the interview.

General information:

Admitted MD-PhD students are supposed to start  the last or the last two years of their graduate studies in 2023/2024/2 academic year.

The tuition fee (4.000 Euros) is supposed to be paid by 28 February 2024.

In case of being admitted to Translational Medicine Program the fee is 5000 Euros/semester.

Students should contact the Financial Management Unit – Doctoral School (titkarsag.digh@semmelweis.hu), the Doctoral Office, to arrange the invoice.

Registration for 2023/2024/2: from 20 November to 15 December 2023

The PhD courses are available in the course database: https://semmelweis.hu/phd/en/courses/

The courses can be taken via Neptun with the help of Neptun assistant Dávid Kelemen (phd.oktatasadmin@semmelweis.hu) during the registration period.

Participants of the MD-PhD Excellence Program are obliged to take a complex comprehensive exam by the end of the 4th active semester. The students can only enter the second part of the study programme upon the successful completion of the complex exam.

The exam has two parts:

  • The practical part (students have to give a 8-10 minutes long presentation in front of the examination board).
  • The theoretical part (1 main subject, 1 additional subject) Recommendation for the subjects of the complex exam and for the members of the professional board of the theoretical exam form is filled in by the Doctoral Schools not by the students.

The spring semester complex exam period depending on the Schools and the programs is in June, August or September. The autumn semester exam period is in February and March.

The  Doctoral Schools send information about the main and additional subjects plus about the date and venue of the exam.

Application form for complex exam is available: https://semmelweis.hu/phd/en/doctoral-division-regulations/downloadable-forms-for-students/

Students of the MD-PhD Excellence Program have to publish at least two scientific papers whose cumulated impact factor (IF) should be equal or exceed 150% of IF requirements of trained PhD students in the given discipline. For further information please refer to “The fulfilment of PhD degree acquisition requirements of trained PhD students”: 

https://semmelweis.hu/phd/en/doctoral-division-regulations/downloadable-forms-for-students/

The 2/3 of IF requirements (100%) has to be fulfilled with at least two original papers related to the topic of the dissertation. The Student has to have at least one “first-author” paper published in a Journal whose IF reaches 50% of requirements. Another 1/3 of IF requirements (50%) should be fulfilled with scientific publications which might not relate to the topic of the dissertation and the order of authors is arbitrary.

Students have to earn 16 credits in the first four semesters prior to the complex exam.

After the complex exam there are no further educational requirements.

Dissertation must be presented within three years after passing the complex exam.