Welcome!

Welcome to the web course for supervisors! The purpose of this e-course is to update you, as a supervisor, on current rules that regulate doctoral education. The faculty also offers other seminars and courses for PhD supervisors:

Annual supervisor seminar
E-course in Treatment of Personal data in Medical and Health Research (Norwegian: https://mitt.uib.no/courses/23681) and English (https://mitt.uib.no/courses/29100)

Upon completion of the e-course, the objective is that you:

Have become familiar with the rules that regulate Doctoral Education at the Faculty of Medicine.
Have become familiar with the organization of Doctoral Education at the Faculty.
Have learned where you can find more information about Doctoral Education at and about supervision of PhD candidates at the Faculty.

HOW THE E-COURSE IS STRUCTURED

The e-course begins with an overview of the codes and rules that govern the doctoral education (PhD programme), how doctoral education is organized at the Faculty and which functions are on a departmental, Faculty or central level, respectively. The following modules are then presented successively:

General information
Admission
Follow-up
Examination
What happens if something goes wrong

The five modules consist of brief introductory texts with references to current rules and regulations, and links to other relevant literature. At the end of each submodule, you are asked to respond to one or two multiple-choice questions that are relevant to that particular section. In order to pass the e-course you must have an overall score of 80 %. You have multiple attempts to complete the questions.

The e-course is estimated to take a few hours to complete, including answering questions, for those who are familiar with "Regulations for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD) at the University of Bergen". There are 28 questions to be answered in total.

Shortly after you have passed the course you will receive an e-mail confirming your successful completion of the e-course.

Click here to start the course

HOW THE E-COURSE WAS DEVELOPED

The Project Group responsible for developing the PhD Supervisor course was appointed by the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry in October 2013. The Project Group consisted of:

Roland Jonsson, Project Leader, former Vice Dean for the Doctoral Education

Bjarne Robberstad, The Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care

Per Øyvind Enger, The Department of Biomedicine

Magne Bråtveit, The Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care

Nils Roar Gjerdet, The Department of Clinical Dentistry

Eivind Valestrand, student

Marit Grønning, then Head of The Medical Student Research Programme

ADMINISTRATIVE CONTACT PERSONS:

Havjin Jacob, Research Section

Jorunn Hvalby, Research Section