Detail programu/oboru

The entrance procedure must be undergone by each applicant. The entrance examination is held in the form of interview before a board and it checks the candidate’s capacity for scientific work in the given field. The board evaluates:

1. Draft project in writing, extent to 10 standard pages. The draft should include, above all:
(a) summary of major areas of the planned research (categorized within Paleopathology or History of medicine);
(b) brief grounds for the research concept;
(c) brief survey of literature concerning the topic;
(d) presumed resources for the research concept;
(e) draft schedule of studies (i.e. in which particular years the student will fulfill the prescribed study obligations).
Maximum score for the whole item – 20 points.
2. Previous publishing activity in the field of History of medicine. Publishing output for items recognized by RIV can be scored up to the total of 10 points.
3. Relation of the topic to the intended Supervising Tutor’s orientation and his/her research projects – the accord of the proposed topic with the Supervising Tutor’s research orientation must be clear. Maximum score for the whole item – 10 points.
4. The presentation of the project by the applicant:
- oral presentation of the project;
- response to board members’ questions.
Maximum score for the whole item – 10 points.

The highest score achievable: 50 points. To be admitted to the studies, the applicant must achieve the score of at least 25 points.

Each member of the examining board will score the applicant according to the above key. From the scores given by particular board members, the arithmetic mean will be calculated. This will be rounded to a whole number – for the decimal values between 0.0 and 0.49 downwards to the closest whole number, for the values between 0.50 and 0.99 upwards to the closest whole number. The standing of the applicants will be set according to the resulting number of points.

Podmínkou přijetí ke studiu v doktorském studijním programu je řádné ukončení studia v magisterském studijním programu.

Způsob ověření:	přijímací zkouška
Datum ověření (přijímací zkoušky) od:	04.06.2019	Do:	04.06.2019
Náhradní termín (přijímací zkoušky):	18.06.2019	Do:	18.06.2019

Graduates in the discipline must be able to work with scientific literature in foreign languages, independently prepare and implement research projects and elaborate them considering their interdisciplinary nature above all. Further, they must be able to solve problems of topics allotted in the fields of paleopathology, paleomicrobiology, gender and social history, history of medicine and health care, typology and development of medical literature written in Latin and concerning the medical faculty in Prague, etc.