When we say PhD do we understand each other? Is anyone, with some expert experience, interested in working on such standards. In 2004 in Zagreb, Croatia we held one meeting on harmonisation of PhD programs in Europe. As a consequence, we made organisation called ORPHEUS which today has over 88 institutions as a members. In collaboration with Association of Medical School in EUROPE (AMSE) and World Federation of Medical Education we developed European standards. Please visit our web site http://orpheus-med.org/index.php
http://hwww.orpheus-med.org.
Dear Viorica
Please visit ORPEHUS web site http://orpheus-med.org. From there you can also find links to many programs in Europe. However, organisation and standards in some countries is still not known enough. Outside Europe we know that some countries follow the rules of UK or US. How it is in China, Africa, Far East etc is mostly unknow. Many articles from Nature os The Economist recently criticized PhD as somthing that belongs to the past.
The PhD degree is one of the highest degree. It need to be standardize internationally. Every country have different programs say mode of enrolling, aggregate for enrolling, no of year (part time & full time), no of publication required, no of exams, duration of thesis etc... and many more... So that every one will have the same qualification.
Thank you Ratan. I hope we are not alone with such a view.
Look in Europe in my field of medicine: in Russian Federation they have two PhDs: aspiratura and doctorate of science, in Germany PhD in clinical medicine practically does not exist (MD title is somethimes based on good but usually small research project. Habilitation is something completly different.
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