Doctorate at the Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus (Ph.D.)

We are happy that you plan to do your doctorate at the Faculty of Medicine. On this website you will find all important information:

1. Application requirements

The requirements of the Faculty of Medicine for the doctorate degree Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) are stated in § 6 of the doctorate regulations dated 24.10.2014. The minimum requirement for admission is a good to very good university degree (certificate of state examination, a Diplom, Master or Magister degree including a research oriented master’s thesis) in a course deemed suitable as a basis for scientific work in the fields of biomedicine, medical technology, medical biometry and bioinformatics or the health sciences.

You also need a supervisor (professor or young investigator at the Faculty of Medicine) who agrees to take the responsibility for the academic supervision of your doctorate.

2. Application for acceptance as a doctoral candidate and admission

The application for acceptance as a doctoral candidate can be filed with the doctoral board of the Faculty according to § 7 of the doctorate regulations dated 24.10.2014. The doctoral board will verify whether all admission requirements are met. With acceptance as a doctoral candidate, you agree to complete your doctorate at the Faculty of Medicine within 5 years.

To obtain the PhD degree, the submission of a fully completed logbook (MeDDoc-PhD-Logbook) is required upon the initiation of the doctoral procedure, unless the promotion is part of a PhD program.

You can find all valid regulations and committees here:

For the application for acceptance as a doctoral candidate, please use the online system Promovendus.

You can access Promovendus via the internet at any time. You will need a valid ZIH user account to login to Promovendus.

Enrolled students as well as employees of TU Dresden automatically receive ZIH login details. If you have not yet received ZIH login details, you can file an application for a guest login which your supervisor has to sign. You can find the application for a ZIH user account on the website of the ZIH.Please contact the Service Desk of TU Dresden in case of any questions or problems with the ZIH user account.

Promovendus will generate an application document for you which you will have to hand in to the Faculty of Medicine:

Sachgebiet Akademische Grade
Haus 40 – Dekanat
Fetscherstraße 74 - PF 124
01307 Dresden
E-Mail: promotion.mf@mailbox.tu-dresden.de

Please note that, together with the application for acceptance as a doctoral candidate, you will need to hand in the following documents:

Certified copy and, if applicable, translation in German or English of the graduation certificate of the study degree relevant for admission
Certified copy and, if applicable, translation in German or English of the overviews of subjects and grades of the study degree relevant for admission
Certified copy and, if applicable, translation in German or English of all other study graduation certificates and overviews of subjects
Simple copy of the university entrance qualification certificate (f.ex. A-levels)
Curriculum vitae (C.V.) including scientific career, publications and signature including certified confirmation of fulfillment of additional studies or examinations
Copy of the supervision agreement including signatures of the supervisors and, in case of a cooperation, the confirmation of the professor of a University of Applied Sciences
Confirmation (receipt) of application for a clearance certificate (Führungszeugnis) to be sent to the Faculty in compliance with Section 30 Paragraph 5 “Bundeszentralregistergesetz” (Federal Central Register Law)

3. Certified copies and verification of equivalence of foreign university degrees

For the acceptance as a doctoral candidate, you need to hand in certified copies and, if applicable, certified translations of your graduation certificates and subject and grades overview. You can find further information on certified copies of certificates, which have not been issued by TU Dresden on the website of the office of certified documentation of TU Dresden.

If you completed one of your studies outside Germany or if you have a foreign citizenship, your documents will be sent to the International Office of the TU Dresden to verify the equivalence of your degree. You can use the online database www.anabin.de for a preliminary check of the equivalence of your degree.

4. Enrollment

EYou can only enroll as doctoral student if the doctoral board of the Faculty has accepted you as doctoral candidate and put you on the doctoral list of the Faculty. You can find further information on the website of the admission office. Enrolment is voluntary. The regulations for enrolment can be found here.

To apply for enrolment, please use the website of the admission office.

5. Additional requirements

Acceptance as a doctoral candidate can be combined with additional requirements and the completion of additional tests. The doctoral board will define these requirements and inform the doctoral candidate together with the confirmation of acceptance. The additional requirements must be fulfilled within two years after acceptance as a doctoral candidate according to the doctorate regulation dated 27.04.2016.

6. Writing a doctoral thesis

The formalities for preparing a doctoral dissertation, including a list of publications, are set out in Form 9.0. A basic point to note is that the Arial font (size: 11 point), with a line spacing of 1.5 and page margins of 2.5–3 cm must be used.

Cover page of a dissertation for Ph.D.
Citation guidelines for the dissertation
Formal requirements for the preparation of a cumulative doctoral dissertation

Reference management programs can help to optimize the workflow. They offer the possibility to capture, organize, and manage references in an efficient way. While writing citations and bibliographies can be easily and quickly inserted in texts. They can be formatted via mouse click in different citation styles. For further information please look at the website of SLUB.

Journal Impact Factor and other metrics for the quantitative assessment and comparison of scientific journals based on Web of Science data from the Journal Citation Reports.

Research Impact Factor and Ranking in Publication Promotions (Cumulative PhD)

The two declarations (Anlage 1 & Anlage 2), which are included in the application for the opening of the doctoral proceedings signed by you, are to be bound into – at the end of – your dissertation. Please mark legal requirements that are not relevant for your work with “does not apply”.

Anlage 1: Erklärungen zur Eröffnung des Promotionsverfahrens

Anlage 2: Bestätigung über Einhaltung der aktuellen gesetzlichen Vorgaben

7. Opening of the doctorate proceedings

For the application for opening of the doctorate proceedings please use the online system Promovendus.

You can access Promovendus via the internet at any time. You will need a valid ZIH user account to login to Promovendus.

Enroled students as well as employees of TU Dresden automatically receive ZIH login details. If you have not yet received ZIH login details, you can file an application for a guest login which your supervisor has to sign. You can find the application for a ZIH user account on the website of the ZIH. Please contact the Service Desk of TU Dresden in case of any questions or problems with the ZIH user account.

Promovendus will generate an application document for you which you will have to hand in to the Faculty of Medicine:

Sachgebiet Akademische Grade
Haus 40 – Dekanat
Fetscherstraße 74 - PF 124
01307 Dresden
E-Mail: promotion.mf@mailbox.tu-dresden.de

Please note that, together with the application for the opening of the doctorate proceedings, you will need to hand in the following documents:

2 hard-cover copies of the dissertation in English (one including the summary in English and German); the doctoral candidate hands on one additional copy to the supervisor
One electronic version of the dissertation on data carrier
5 printed copies of the summary in German and English (max 1000 words, each)
Curriculum vitae (C.V.) including scientific career and signature
List of scientific publications, conferences and further achievements; publications resulting from the dissertation have to be marked
Confirmation (receipt) of application for a clearance certificate (Führungszeugnis) to be sent to the Faculty, which is not older than 3 months, in compliance with Section 30 Paragraph 5 “Bundeszentralregistergesetz” (Federal Central Register Law)

The dissertation as well as the disputation (defense of PhD thesis) can be in the German or English language. You can find all further details in the doctorate regulations dated 24.10.2014.

8. Clearance Certificate

For application of acceptance as a doctoral candidate as well as the opening of the doctorate procedures, you will need a confirmation (receipt) of application for a clearance certificate (“Führungszeugnis”) to be sent to the Faculty of Medicine in compliance with Section 30 Paragraph 5 “Bundeszentralregistergesetz” (Federal Central Register Law).

The clearance certificate is valid for about 3 months and can be requested on the day that the application for acceptance as a doctorate candidate or opening of the doctorate proceedings is submitted.

When requesting this certificate the following address should be given:

Technische Universität Dresden
Medizinische Fakultät Carl Gustav Carus
SG Akademische Grade
Fetscherstr. 74
01307 Dresden

9. Completed doctorates and alumni network

You can view all doctorates which have been completed since 2012 in the doctorate archive.

You can register for the alumni network for former junior researchers in Promovendus. If you do not have a valid ZIH user account, you can also use the alumni sheet. Registration is voluntary.

We would also like to draw your attention to the general alumni network of TU Dresden.