Postgraduate Education at the Faculty of Health Sciences

The Faculty of Health Sciences awards approximately 60 doctoral degrees every year. The faculty coordinates altogether five graduate schools, and is involved in the activities of several others.

If you are interested in postgraduate education at the Faculty of Health Sciences, please contact Chief Administrator of Teaching Affairs Mervi Silaste (email: Mervi.silaste(at)uef.fi, tel. +358 (0)40 355 2198 or Amanuensis Arja Afflekt (arja.afflekt(at)uef.fi, tel. +358 (0)40 355 2964.

instructions

• standing orders relating to degrees and studies
• postgraduate education process and common procedures in postgraduate education at the Faculty of Health Sciences, description
• ethical guidelines for teaching and studying
• instructions for supervisors of postgraduate students and persons in charge of academic subjects involved in postgraduate education
• instructions on the statement of preliminary examiners and opponents
• publishing instructions
  • style sheet for a monograph (word-version, scaled pdf-version)
  • style sheet for a 'sheaf' dissertation (word-version, scaled pdf-version)
  • style sheet for a 'paragraph' dissertation (word-version, scaled pdf-version)

• Scientific Postgraduate Education, Curricula 2011-2012

forms 

• Application for a doctoral degree and registration of the thesis study in the Faculty of Health Sciences
• Personal postgraduate study plan
• Application for printing permission 
• Publishing agreement 
• Agreement of making a work accessible through electronic networks
• Printing grant application
• Certificate application form
   

applying for the degree certificate

1. After you have completed all the studies which are required for the degree, please check that they have been entered on your transcript of academic records.
2. Update your personal postgraduate study plan and have it approved by your main supervisor.
3. Fill in the application form for a postgraduate degree certificate and submit it together with your updated personal postgraduate study plan to Amanuensis Arja Afflekt who will then compile your postgraduate degree certificate.
4. The time of delivery for the postgraduate degree certificate is three weeks counting from the date when Amanuensis Arja Afflekt has received the application form and all the studies have been entered on your transcript of academic records. 

• Certificate application form

UEF Graduate School

The UEF Graduate Schoolf was established in 2011. It organizes courses and seminars which are aimed for all the postgraduate students of the UEF. Courses arranged by the UEF Graduate School help the postgraduate students to develope their trasferrable skills, such as skills in communication, information retrieval and research ethics etc. More.