PhD in Veterinary Sciences
The objectives of the Doctorate in Veterinary Sciences are to guarantee high-level training, based on activities of investigation, at the end of which, with the approval in the public act of defense of the thesis, the students demonstrate to satisfy the following requirements:
a) Ability to systematically understand the scientific domain of Veterinary Sciences;
b) Skills and research methods associated with the scientific field of Veterinary Sciences;
c) Ability to conceive, design, adapt and carry out significant research respecting the requirements imposed by academic quality and integrity standards;
d) Having carried out a significant number of original research works that have contributed to expanding the frontiers of knowledge and that deserve national or international dissemination in publications with a selection committee;
e) Be able to critically analyse, evaluate and synthesize new and complex ideas;
f) Be able to communicate with their peers, the rest of the academic community and society in general about the area in which they are specialized;
g) To be able, in a knowledge-based society, to promote, in an academic and/or professional context, technological, social or cultural progress.
Researchers, with solid training, capable of producing knowledge by carrying out original research, from a fundamental or applied perspective, in the specialties of Clinical, Animal Health, Animal Production, Food Safety and Biological and Biomedical Sciences.
Access and ingress
Holders of a master degree or equivalent; Holders of a bachelor (licenciatura) degree with a minimum final classification of fourteen values in a scale of zero to twenty, or equivalent, with a relevant academic or scientific curriculum that is recognized as attesting the capacity to carry out this study programme by the Scientific Committee of DVS;
