The doctoral office is unfortunately only staffed to a limited extent until 06.01.25. Please note that there will therefore be a delay in processing your inquiries.

If you have any questions about your Docfile record, please contact the Docfile team by email medfak-docfileuni-koeln.de. Please always send inquiries to the doctoral office by e-mail to medfak-promotionsbuerouni-koeln.de. If you would like to visit us in person or make a telephone call outside office hours, please make an appointment via e-mail with our staff. Please note that due to the large number of inquiries, it may take up to 10 working days to process your request. Please plan accordingly in advance. Please do not contact any other employees of the Dean's Office, they will not be able to give you any information about your doctoral procedure, thank you.

Doing a doctorate at the Graduate School of Human Medicine and Dental Medicine

Dear doctoral candidates,

on these pages you will find all the information you need about the Graduate School of Human and Dental Medicine of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Cologne for the doctoral degrees Dr. med. and Dr. med. dent.

Good luck with your doctorate!

Short overview of the Graduate School

The Graduate School of Human and Dental Medicine comprises two module strands - preparatory modules for doctoral studies and compulsory modules for doctoral studies

Preparatory modules for the doctoral program:

Basic module - Lectures on basic concepts of scientific work, scientific ethics (research on humans) and good scientific practice/scientific misconduct

Exposé - preparation of a project outline of the planned research project

Compulsory modules for the doctoral program:

Key qualification module - further training in an interdisciplinary key qualification. The overview of key qualification courses at the University of Cologne and further information on the module can be found here.

Presentation - report on your own project in the presence of your formal supervisor (doctoral supervisor)

As proof for writing the exposé and giving the presentation are the forms (see download area), the originals of which remain with you. The certificates of achievement for the modules will be recorded in Docfile.

Each doctoral candidate should be able to conclude a supervision agreement within this framework.

Please also note the information on the enrollment of doctoral candidates.

Please read through all the information on this homepage before contacting the Docfile team (contact below, you can reach the members of the Docfile team by e-mail). If you have any questions about the doctoral procedure, please contact the doctoral office directly. Please note the office hours for telephone inquiries. For a telephone consultation, please always make an appointment by e-mail first, in which you already state your most important questions.