PhD Committee
The PhD Committee consists of four senior investigators and one PhD student. Mai Chin A Paw, PhD (senior staff), Prof. Eco de Geus, PhD (senior staff), Femke van Nassau, MSc (PhD student), Raymond Ostelo, PhD, (Chair) and Prof. Marjolein Visser, PhD (senior staff).
The central objective of the PhD Committee is to facilitate a high quality supervision of and education for the PhDs’ of the EMGO+ Institute in order to deliver excellent researchers.
The PhD Committee advises the directorate on matters concerning education, supervision and assessment of PhD students. The PhD committee is responsible for reviewing the ‘education and supervision agreement’ that is designed and signed at the beginning of each PhD project. This agreement lists the auxiliary courses as defined by EMGO+ and other selected courses that the student must complete alongside the PhD research project. The overall aim of the agreement is to ensure a course program that combines a general academic education with specialized training tailored to the individual PhD student and project requirements. Supervised by the PhD Committee PhD students can choose one of four ‘PhD training profiles’: clinical epidemiology, social sciences, health care professionals, and a free profile. The committee further reviews the evaluations of PhD trajectories conducted by the main supervisor after ten months and three years into the usual four year period.
Beyond its review and advice functions, the committee offers assistance when PhD students find themselves in a dispute with their supervisors, and directs and supports a ‘PhD student buddy system’ that links each new PhD student to a more experienced student in order to provide new students a way to get quickly introduced within the institute.