Thesis Process in the Faculty of Medicine
The thesis (dissertation) process administration is handled in UGIS-portal which also contains instructions. The two electronic forms used in the process can be found on the UGIS-portal. On this page you can find the templates for the attachments related to the forms. Also other general instructions for the thesis process and the guidelines and forms for the experts are found here.
General instructions for thesis (dissertation) process
> Faculty of Medicine study guide for doctoral training (chapter 4.7 Writing a doctoral thesis)
> Compilation dissertation in the Faculty of Medicine (PDF)
Guidelines for open and secure publishing on the library's website: Open Access Publishing (Reliability of Open Access Publications - Predatory Journals)
The Annales Word template is used when publishing the doctoral dissertation in the Annales Universitatis Turkuensis series. The template is for assisting the doctoral researcher to produce the text of the dissertation in a right layout form. The template has by default e.g. correct fonts, margins and order of the contents.
It is important that you upload an unused template that has not been formatted by another user. The Faculty of Medicine template has bee updated on 17th June, 2024.
Templates for the attachments to the two forms used in the thesis process (forms are on the UGIS-portal)
> Recommendation of the follow-up committee
> Clarification of pictures and tables of the thesis manuscript
In addition, the attachments required for a compilation thesis:
> Clarification of the doctoral candidate’s contribution to each of the original communications
> Explanation regarding the use of original communication(s) in two theses (conditional)
> Written consent from the first author and the supervisor(s) of the publication (conditional)
> Certificate of the Turnitin-check
The doctoral researcher attaches the signed Turnitin-check certificate as a scanned PDF on the ’Proposal of people involved in the dissertation process’ form.
> Consent of all registered supervisors to begin the preliminary examination process of a monograph thesis (obligatory in a monograph thesis)