Students who join the PhD programme through master's studies whose contents and competencies are not equivalent to those of the Master's in Biomedical Research must take complementary training. These training complements will necessarily be subjects offered in the Master's Degree in Biomedical Research at UVa and will have a maximum length of 30 ECTS. The selection of these training complements will have a levelling character, and therefore will be carried out in a personalised way taking into account on the one hand the previous training of the applicant and on the other hand the line of research in which their doctoral thesis work is framed.
Master's degree in biomedical research (UVa)
The Master’s degree in Biomedical Research (MIB), which aims to provide specialised training in the field of basic research in biomedicine, is a proposal jointly promoted by the University of Valladolid and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) through its joint centre, the Institute of Biology and Molecular Genetics (IBGM).
- It is preferably aimed at graduates in Biology, Biotechnology, Biochemistry, Biomedicine, Pharmacy, Veterinary Medicine, Medicine and Physical Activity and Sport Sciences, or any other undergraduate degree that includes studies in Fundamental Biology, Biochemistry and/or Medicine. In addition, the Master's Degree is also aimed at graduates of related studies (Physics, Chemistry or Engineering), who would need to complete the Leveling Module.
- The objectives of the master's degree include providing a solid knowledge of specific aspects of basic sciences such as Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Immunology and Physiology and Physiopathology, enabling students to develop their future professional activity in basic biomedical research in public or private organisations/centres, biotechnological industries, teaching, scientific dissemination, management and other tasks related to these sciences.
- One of the strengths of the master's degree is that more than 40 lecturers with recognised teaching and research experience in specific areas of Biomedicine such as Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Biochemistry of inflammatory processes, Molecular Genetics and Cell Therapy participate in its teaching.
- The Master's Degree offers several theoretical and practical subjects taught in one academic year and included in both the Leveling Module (October), the compulsory Common Module (October-January), in the specific Modules with various possible itineraries to choose from (February-May), in the Complementary Training Module (February-May), and in the Master's Final Project (October-September).