General description

The doctoral program promotes research in imaging sciences with radiological methods and offers a well-structured post-graduate education on basics and methods of medical imaging. The focus of the doctoral program is on research of anatomy and disease with biomedical imaging procedures and on the combination of applied and basic research for the development and improvement of imaging diagnostics, interventions, and therapies. The program is open to international candidates.
The program allows candidates to focus on clinical research in a medical environment. It is open to applicants with outstanding academic achievements and a strong interest in clinical research.

Admission requirements

For general Informations on Application see: https://www.uzh.ch/cmsssl/en/studies/application; More Informations in regulations and admission requirements of the program of study.

Specific requirements

To apply for this doctoral program, candidates must at least hold a university master's degree in either medicine, biomedicine, biology, physics, engineering and related sciences. Further academic qualifications that are compulsory for eligibility as well are listed in the document "Doktoratsordnung". All candidates must be fluent in English.
Double Matriculation
Double matriculation in the general doctorate of the Faculty of Medicine (Dr. med.) and in the PhD program Clinical Science at the same time is not planned. If, at the time of your application for the PhD program, you are about to graduate as Dr. med., please indicate this in your application. Otherwise, the simultaneous completion of the general doctorate and the PhD program is not intended.

ECTS credits

12 ECTS Credits

Language of instruction

German, English