CODE OF RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR THE DOCTORAL SCHOOL OF HEALTH SCIENCES THE FACULTY OF HEALTH SCIENCES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS PÉCS 2017 Doctoral Code of the Doctoral School of Health Sciences Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pécs The present Code is comprised by nine Chapters (ix) and 21 Sections (§) and is supplemented by 7 Appendices CONTENTS I. GENERAL RULES ...................................................................................................................... 3 II. THE COUNCIL OF THE DOCTORAL SCHOOL OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND THE DOCTORAL AND HABILITATION BOARD .............................................................................. 4 III. THE DOCTORAL AND HABILITATION OFFICE ............................................................... 7 IV. LEADERS AND INSTRUCTORS OF THE PHD TRAINING ............................................... 8 V. THE DOCTORAL STUDENTS OF THE PHD TRAINING .................................................... 9 VI. THE PHD TRAINING ............................................................................................................ 12 VII. THE PROCEDURE OF EARNING THE PHD DEGREE .................................................... 20 VIII. SPECIAL REGULATIONS ................................................................................................. 26 IX. CLOSING REGULATIONS AND THE FORCE OF THE PRESENT CODE ...................... 27 APPENDICIES 1. KNOWLEDGE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES ........................................................................ 28 2. CONDITIONS OF AWARDING THE DEGREE RELATED TO PUBLISHING .................. 29 3.THE PROCEDURE OF ADMITTANCE .................................................................................. 34 4. FEES TO BE PAID BY THOSE APPLYING AND ADMITTED TO THE DOCTORAL PROGRAMME ............................................................................................................................. 36 5.REMUNERATION OF THOSE PARTICIPATING IN THE INSTURCTION, THE PROCEDURE OF DEGREE AWARDING AND IN THE ORGANIZATION ........................... 38 6. THE CREDIT SYSTEM IN THE DOCTORAL INSTRUCTION ........................................... 39 7. SUBMITTING THE THESES AND DECLARATION OF ORIGINALITY .......................... 41 2 I. GENERAL RULES Section 1 (1) The legal source of the doctoral Code of the Doctoral School of Health Sciences at the Faculty of Health Sciences (hereinafter: the Faculty) of the University of Pécs (hereinafter: the University) is Act CCIV. of 2011 on the National Higher Education (hereinafter: NHE) and also Government Decree 387/2012. (XII.19.) on Doctoral Schools, Doctoral Procedures and Habilitation and Appendix 13 of the Rules and Regulation of the University of Pécs. Section 2 (1) The doctoral (PhD) degree (hereinafter: the PhD degree) as the highest qualification attainable at the university is awarded by the University to those who give evidence of knowledge and practical skills of high quality independent scientific research, on the basis of which have published novel research findings. (2) The doctoral (PhD) programme (hereinafter: the (PhD) programme) is a basic function of the Faculty aiming to prepare those having been admitted there to earn a PhD degree. (3) The Faculty in accordance with the decision made by the National Board for Accreditations in Higher Education (hereinafter: National Board for Accreditations, NBA) conducts organised doctoral instruction and degree awarding procedures in the field of medicine, focusing on health sciences. The PhD instruction is conducted in the Doctoral School of Health Sciences (hereinafter: The Doctoral Shool). Section 3 (1) The PhD degree can be earned: a.) in organised instruction b.) by recognising previously earned degrees (PhD degree earned abroad, Candidate of Sciences degree earned abroad, etc.) proving eligibility for high quality independent scientific research c.) in individual preparation starting with the academic year 2016/2017. (2) The organised form of PhD insturction is a fulltime training (fulltime instruction). (3) Individuals admitted to the organised doctoral training (hereinafter: the doctoral student) shall have students status at the University. The student status comes into force with registration for the training. (4) The doctoral student participating in the training can be: a) subsidised by the state or holding a Hungarian state scholarship (hereinafter: state scholarship holder) b) holder of another scholarship c) fee paying or self-supporting (hereinafter: self-supporting) 3 (5) Foreign citizens who are not under the force of Article 21 (1) of the Code of Studies and Examinations of the University may conduct their studies in self-supporting form excusively. (6) The length of the doctoral training shall be 36 months which can be broken down to periods of accountability (hereinafter: semesters). The schedule of semesters is adjusted to the schedule determined by the Faculty, based on Article 34 (4) of the Code of Studies and Examinations of the University. (7) In the case of students who enrol to their studies in or after the academic year 2016/2017, the length of the doctoral training shall be 48 months which can be broken down to periods of accountability (hereinafter: semesters). The schedule of semesters is adjusted to the schedule determined by the Faculty, based on Article 34 (4) of the Code of Studies and Examinations of the University. II. THE COUNCIL OF THE DOCTORAL SCHOOL OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND THE DOCTORAL AND HABILITATION BOARD Section 4 (1) The general regulation of the doctoral training and the procedure of awarding the PhD degree is the competence of the Doctoral and Habilitation Council of Health Sciences (hereinafter: DHCHS). (2) The DHCHS shall delegate from among its members a number of individulas equal to the number of accredited Doctoral Schools to the University Doctoral Board (hereinafter: UDB) as internal members. The DHCHS shall appoint deputies for cases of the internal members’ incapacitation. Deputies can only be selected from the group of founding members of the incapacitated internal members’ Doctoral School. (3) The doctoral training shall be conducted in the Doctoral School. Matters concerning the training conducted in the Doctoral School are managed by the Council of the Doctoral School (hereinafter: CDS). (4) Doctoral matters within the scope of the Faculty are within the competence of the Doctoral Code of the Doctoral School at the Faculty of the Health Sciences of the University of Pécs (hereinafter: Doctoral Code). Adopting and amending the Doctoral Code shall fall under the competence of the Faculty Council. (5) Decisions adopted by the CDS shall become effective upon the approval of the DHCHS. In cases of disapproval, the CDS is to rediscuss the matter in question; the new decision is to be made with the arguments for the disapproval of the previous decision in mind. (6) Over the DHCHS and the CDS, the supervisory rights are exercised by the Dean of the Faculty. Section 5 Doctoral and Habilitation Council of Health Sciences 4 (1) The DHCHS operates as a standing committee of the Faculty Council. Its Chair and members are delegated by the Doctoral School, elected by the Faculty Council and appointed by the Dean of the Faculty. (2) The DHCHS: a) the number of members including the Chair is minimum 7; b) the Chair shall be a recognised and reputable professor of the Faculty; c) the Chair and the internal members are selected from the founding members named in the accreditation procedudre of the Doctoral School; d.) shall have two external members with voting rights. They are recommended for election by the Doctoral School. (An external member is an individual with a scientific degree, who is not employed by the University and who meets the criteria for founding membership.) e) one member of the DHCHS with the right of voting is delegated by the Doctoral Student Council of the University of Pécs; f) The Dean is allowed to participate in the sessions of the DHCHS with the right of consultation. (3) Those who are dependent on or has family relationship with the applicant and those who cannot be expected to make objective decisions for any other reasons are not to participate in the work of the DHCHS in the particular matter. Family relations shall be interpreted as defined in Article 8:1 (1) 1. of Act V of 2013 on the Civil Code of Hungary. (4) The appointment of the Chair and members of the DHCHS is for 3 years and can be prolonged several times. (5) Rights and obligations of the DHCHS: a) elaboration of the Doctoral Code of the PhD degree awarding and PhD training and its modified versions and the appendices and submitting it to the Faculty Council for approval. b) submitting proposals for accrediting, modifying and terminating the Doctoral School to the UDB. c) proposal for admissions opportunities. d) decision about the principles of allocation of state scholarship holders’ posts within the Faculty e) decision about the admission to the doctoral training, exemption, application for awarding of the PhD degree, disciplines of the doctoral final examination, decision about the Chairs and members of admission, final and referees’ committees. f) proposal for awarding the PhD degree, for nostrification of foreign scientific degrees and awarding doctoral degrees with honour. g) the coordination of the operation of the CDS and also the approval of its decisions. h) proposal for setting the fees of the PhD training and the procedural fees awarding of the PhD degree and the