Once the legally required conditions for access have been met and taking into account the recommended profile, the Academic Committee of the Doctoral Programme will evaluate and decide on the admission of students according to the following criteria:
1. Fulfilment of the general entry requirements.
2. The Master's studies taken by students to access the programme. Access through a Master's degree in Biomedical Research (offered by the University of Valladolid) or Master's studies with equivalent content and competences offered by other national or foreign universities will be considered a preferential criterion. This point must be duly accredited by the students, by presenting the academic transcript of the doctoral access studies and, if necessary, by presenting the syllabus of the subjects taken. In the case of students who apply for admission to the doctoral programme by other means, the Academic Committee of the doctoral programme may require the completion of complementary training for their admission.
3. The proposals of the lecturers of the Doctoral Programme. The admission of students to the programme ultimately involves the commitment to accept a lecturer from the Doctoral Programme as tutor and/or supervisor of the thesis project. In this sense, a preferential criterion for admission will be considered to be the existence of previous contact with one of the lecturers of the Doctoral Programme who accredits their willingness to act as tutor and/or supervisor of the thesis (access to the document). In addition, priority will be given to applications in which the thesis supervisors are lecturers on the PhD programme over those in which the programme lecturers are tutors and the supervisor is an external lecturer. The supervisor must be a PhD with accredited research experience. To justify this requirement must also be provided, if applicable, the document of supervision with recognized six-year research periods (access to the document) or without recognized six-year research periods (access to the document).
In the event that the student applies for admission without having a Director and a Thesis project, it will be the task of the academic committee of the PhD Programme to provide the student with a Thesis Director from among the lecturers of the PhD Programme or the Master's in Biomedical Research who offer places for PhD students in their lines of research. The academic committee will facilitate the contact between the students and the professors in order to choose between the possible candidates (on the part of the professors) and between the different projects (on the part of the students). After hearing both parties, the academic committee will assign a thesis supervisor to the student. The thesis supervisor will, in this case, be the student's tutor.
Weighting of admission criteria:
The evaluation of the Academic Committee of the Doctoral Programme will be based on a scale in which candidates will be awarded a score from 0 to 10 based on the following criteria:
Criterion Assessment Academic record of Bachelor's and Master's degree studies Up to 2 points.
Adequacy of Master's studies (1) Up to 3 points.
Commitment of Acceptance of a professor as Thesis supervisor (2) Up to 4 points.
Other merits (publications, previous experience, languages, other studies) (3) Up to 1 point.
(1) The maximum score in this section will be awarded to students who access through the Master's Degree in Biomedical Research of the Uva or an equivalent Master's Degree.
(2) The acceptance of one of the professors of the PhD programme will result in a score of 4 in this section.
(3) The assessment of these merits will be carried out taking into account their relation or their implications in the Doctoral Thesis project to be carried out by the student.
Candidates must achieve a minimum score of 6 points to be admitted to the programme.