ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS:

An M.Sc. degree is required, although students of exceptional or proven ability holding an appropriate professional degree or B.Sc.(Hons.) degree may be admitted. The qualifications of all students applying for admission to the Ph.D. Program will be assessed by the Department of Oral Biology Committee on Graduate Studies and Research and a recommendation made to the Head of the Department.

MINIMUM COURSE REQUIREMENTS:

The Ph.D. program requires satisfactory completion of course requirements as determined by each student's Advisory Committee and a thesis based on original research. Minimum course requirements are 12 credit hours at the 700 level plus Course 100.719 Communication Skills in Dental Research (unless they have previous credit for an equivalent course). Ph.D. students are expected to attend all departmental seminars. Students shall present at least one seminar on their own research to the Department each year - updating it each year.

QUALIFYING EXAMINATION:

A student, whose knowledge of the field of Oral Biology is in doubt after first registration for the degree, may be required to take a qualifying examination within the first 12 months of study at the discretion of the Advisory Committee. It is the responsibility of the Committee to organize this examination.

The qualifying examination, which will consist of a written and an oral component, will be administered as in the Candidacy Examination. The result will be indicated as "pass" or "fail". A student who fails will be required to withdraw.

CANDIDACY EXAMINATION:

The purpose of this examination is to ensure that students in the Department of Oral Biology have a certain standard of academic knowledge in science areas related to the student's research interests. It would also serve to indicate deficiencies in the student's knowledge which could be corrected by additional preparation. The examination will consist of written and oral components, the scope and format of which will be determined by the student's advisory committee and communicated to the student at least two months prior to the examination. The chair of the Graduate Studies and Research Committee of the Department (or his/her designate) will chair the oral component of the candidacy exam. The oral examination will be open to all faculty members of the Department and questions may be asked by all those in attendance at the discretion of the chair.

*If you are interested in applying for any of the Dentistry Graduate programs, please visit the U of M Graduate Studies Department website for the required forms and information.