Doctoral school

Inform the PhD candidate on the following subjects:

1. How to find and register with the Amsterdam UMC Doctoral School. Send the link of the Doctoral School website to the PhD candidate and invite her/him to navigate through the various articles

2. Invite the PhD candidate to register with the Amsterdam UMC Doctoral School

3. Show the PhD candidate where to find information on the specific Research Institute to which the corresponding research project will be embedded

4. Draw attention to the PhD Plan which the PhD candidate needs to fill in (he/she will be invited to do so by email, automatically sent after registration at the Doctoral School), and discuss it together with him/her. The PhD plan will also be discussed in the meeting with the Doctoral School PhD advisor

Note: If a PhD candidate does not hold a Master's degree yet, because he/she combines the Master and PhD within a formalized study arrangement (as a Pre-PhD student), he/she still should first finish his/her master, before being allowed to defend his/her thesis. If this is not (yet) the case, please contact the Office of Doctorate Affairs

• Fully completed and signed PhD Plan form (see Downloads)

Note: Amsterdam UMC/UvA PhD candidates at Cancer Center Amsterdam who have started the PhD trajectory as from 1 January 2021 should also complete the OOA Training Plan template and submit it as a separate document together with the PhD Plan to the Doctoral School with the OOA Graduate school in cc. In this case, they are exempted from completing ‘Chapter 5: Individual PhD Course Programme’ of the PhD Plan form

Also check the information for PhD Candidates under Step 1 (Starting your PhD) in PhD trajectory, including PhD Plans of the different research intitutes