Doctoral Programme in Clinical Research (3-4 yrs)

Doctoral Programme in Clinical Research aims to promote high quality clinical research and supports doctoral training in clinical medicine and other closely related research areas. One important goal is to support parallel doctoral and clinical training.

A basic degree in medical science is not compulsory but other degrees are acceptable too, if the research topic of the applicant relates to medical questions or methods.

The doctoral researchers of DPCR pursue a doctoral degree either in the Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Social Sciences, Faculty of Science, Faculty of Technologies or Turku School of Economics.

There are two application periods for doctoral training annually - in the spring and in the autumn. In the autumn call it is also possible to apply a fixed-term funded doctoral researcher position.

Application periods

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