Dear All,
Our medical school is looking at its options for post qualification
training. Currently Dundee medical graduates can submit a body of work for
consideration for an MD: we charge a nominal fee but this often doesn't even
cover the cost of assessment- we have two concerns about this: i) because
the thesis is unsupervised the quality is often not even close to doctoral
level so the University incurs assessment costs without any chance of the
work passing ii) whilst this route is a service to our graduates it's not
really beneficial to the university or the local area because these
graduates are usually working far away from Dundee itself.
Before we make any changes to these arrangements it would be useful to know
whether other medical schools offer a similar arrangement for MDs and if so
what the normal assessment fee is (ours is c£500).
If you are willing to share your general policy on fees for staff taking
PhDs this would also help to inform our thinking: we give full fee waivers
as long as the doctorate is related to the work being undertaken by the
member of staff but normal fees apply if the area of study is outwith this.
Any responses will be most appreciated.
best wishes
Susan
