Doctoral Thesis

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» Rules and Requirements

The thesis registration shall be done latest the end of the first semester!

It is strongly recommended to find a supervisors for the doctoral thesis prior to admission to studies! Please see relevant supervisors evaluated in the thematic programs. Supervisors can provide financial support!

Please ask the supervisor to contact the relevant program coordinator prior to the registration of the doctoral thesis in order to initiate an evaluation procedure in the event that the supervisor is not evaluated yet as a supervisor within the thematic program of your interest.

The two further members of your thesis committee may be suggested to the program coordinator. They have to hold the "venia docendi" (Doz./Prof.) in the event that they are not evaluated within the thematic program. At least one of the two further members must not belong to the organizational unit of the supervisor.

The doctoral thesis should be associated with a peer-reviewed and funded research project. The doctorand shall be financially supported (e.g. employed at the MedUni Vienna). Project and possible support/employment please discuss with the supervisor.
At least one first-author paper in the course of the thesis project should be published in a peer-reviewed journal latest by the end of studies.
Within N790 studies, however, peer-reviewed projects and first author publications are no requirement!

Recommendation for the thesis registration procedure if there are no other suggestions/conditions by the program coordinator:

• please tell your supervisor to contact the programm coordinator in the event that your supervisor is not evaluated yet as a senior- resp. junior- supervisor
• work out the thesis proposal (see form below) and get the agreement by your supervisor
• discuss two further members of your thesis committee with your supervisor; the programm coordinator provides a senior supervisor evaluated within the thematic program who may be one of the two further committee members in the event that the supervisor has "junior supervisor"-status
• submit the thesis proposal and the data of your thesis commitee members to the programm coordinator
• the program coordinator decides; get all data and signatures required (except by direction of curriculum) on the thesis registration form (see form below) if the program coordinator agrees
• submit the thesis registration form and the thesis proposal to the Office for Students Affairs, terminal 2, Martin Janku
  
  

Information about registration
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Non-disclosure agreement
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Info about data privacy:
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e-mail: datenschutzkommission@listserv.meduniwien.ac.at
web-site: --> Data Protection Committee

Thesis latest outline:
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Thesis registration forms:

Registration form
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User form for the thesis proposal
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Thesis proposal - example
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Further web links:
--> Ethics Commission of the MedUni Vienna
--> Data Protection Committee

Information about compilation
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User form for the progress report meetings of the thesis committee
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The thesis has to be submitted as PdF/A-file at the end of your studies.
Therefore please notice the
>> Guidelines for PdF/A - Conversion
already at the beginning of your writing.


Write one English and one German abstract (about 1 A4 page each) and integrate it into your thesis (must be part of the table of contents).
Add your list of publications and your curriculum vitae at the end of your thesis.
Pay special attention to the cover page of your thesis. To be definitely included:
.) Doctoral Thesis at the Medical University of Vienna for obtaining the "Dr.scient.med."-Degree,
.) title of the doctoral thesis (please do not use abbreviations),
.) your name as the author,
.) supervisor (including the institute/center/department),
.) place and date of compilation and submission
.) >> see template for the cover page

Suggestion for formatting: Times New Roman resp. Arial, 12pt; line spacing: 1,5 lines; margin: 2-3 cmpages may be imprinted one-sided or duplex; your name shall be on the spine of the thesis books

Thesis latest outline:
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There will be a plagiarism check after submission of the completed thesis at the end of your studies.
Please see  >> info handout in German and English.
Students should avoid any form of plagiarism and are bound to get informed about serious consequences that result from this form of misconduct. Further information about this subject can be found under the following web-link: www.quality.stir.ac.uk/documents/BookofPlagiarism.pdf. If there are any further questions about plagiarism after reading this pdf.-file please ask your supervisor.

Cumulative doctoral thesis:
The compilation of a cumulative doctoral thesis (using publications) is possible.

Please note that the work has to be submitted formally as doctoral thesis, joint cover page, joint abstracts (German and English), joint introduction and joint discussion are a minimum requirement! The joint introduction and joint discussion shall be at least 50% of the total length of the doctoral thesis.

You should concentrate on the main theme (where e.g. the first-author publication will be published), possible further themes should be cited as additional outcomes/projects. Overmore there should be cited which experiments are carried out by the doctorand. Even better it is to list up the contributions of the co-authors.

Some revievers, however, are sensitive to such "collected editions" and sometimes grade worser.



See online doctoral theses for your info under "Alumni".

>>Submission of the completed doctoral thesis