We aim to educate a new generation of researchers
GSISH Doctoral Program
Graduate School
The GSISH is a young & highly innovative Graduate School of the Departments of Medicine and Informatics of the Technische Universität München. »
GSISH aims to define a new approach and overall concept for education and research in health by emphasizing the ever-increasing importance of information science in health, health technology and related technology fields (biomedical engineering, bioinformatics, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals).
Information science embraces and supports these fields, and also facilitates the pioneering of new services. We believe that information science will be the most important driver and mediator for innovation in all health-related scientific disciplines. It will even have more significant impact than previously witnessed in other areas such as the automotive industry, traffic control or global logistics.
Therefore, all doctoral candidates in GSISH receive true interdisciplinary tuition in at least two previously distinct fields while performing their research work. For example, doctorates of medicine and life sciences attend compulsory advanced courses in engineering; conversely, engineers attend compulsory lectures in medicine. The final aim will be a doctoral degree, awarded by the academic institutes involved in cooperation with GSISH.
The GSISH provides each doctoral candidate with an individual curriculum to address the diverse background of the research projects available. In general, our curriculum includes courses, seminars, collaborative and independent work in the following three modules:
a) Interdisciplinary and Scientific Skills Training
b) International & Industry Exchange
c) Transferable Skills Training
Each module provides individual options, out of which GSISH candidates can choose those offers, which best contribute to their needs. Out of these modules, GSISH provides a tailor-made doctoral curriculum for every individual doctoral candidate. GSISH doctoral candidates will collect 40 credit points during their studies.
Each doctoral candidate will be assigned two supervisors, one professor in his/her own discipline and one from a different field. The supervisors are usually the group leaders of the project the doctorate works with. They are a member of the GSISH faculty or the GSISH international faculty. Doctoral candidate and the mentors negotiate and agree on an individual supervision agreement at the beginning of the doctoral project.
The plan specifies the courses, seminars and projects, including the international and industrial exchange, to be taken from each of the modules a through c. Our doctoral candidates can choose from a variety of courses offered by TUM, LMU, its further education centers and by our national and international partner institutions.
Adjustments to this plan can be made at the annual or semi-annual status meetings of the doctoral candidate and his/her supervisors.
Information science embraces and supports these fields, and also facilitates the pioneering of new services. We believe that information science will be the most important driver and mediator for innovation in all health-related scientific disciplines. It will even have more significant impact than previously witnessed in other areas such as the automotive industry, traffic control or global logistics.
Therefore, all doctoral candidates in GSISH receive true interdisciplinary tuition in at least two previously distinct fields while performing their research work. For example, doctorates of medicine and life sciences attend compulsory advanced courses in engineering; conversely, engineers attend compulsory lectures in medicine. The final aim will be a doctoral degree, awarded by the academic institutes involved in cooperation with GSISH.
The GSISH provides each doctoral candidate with an individual curriculum to address the diverse background of the research projects available. In general, our curriculum includes courses, seminars, collaborative and independent work in the following three modules:
a) Interdisciplinary and Scientific Skills Training
b) International & Industry Exchange
c) Transferable Skills Training
Each module provides individual options, out of which GSISH candidates can choose those offers, which best contribute to their needs. Out of these modules, GSISH provides a tailor-made doctoral curriculum for every individual doctoral candidate. GSISH doctoral candidates will collect 40 credit points during their studies.
Each doctoral candidate will be assigned two supervisors, one professor in his/her own discipline and one from a different field. The supervisors are usually the group leaders of the project the doctorate works with. They are a member of the GSISH faculty or the GSISH international faculty. Doctoral candidate and the mentors negotiate and agree on an individual supervision agreement at the beginning of the doctoral project.
The plan specifies the courses, seminars and projects, including the international and industrial exchange, to be taken from each of the modules a through c. Our doctoral candidates can choose from a variety of courses offered by TUM, LMU, its further education centers and by our national and international partner institutions.
Adjustments to this plan can be made at the annual or semi-annual status meetings of the doctoral candidate and his/her supervisors.
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