General Description
Virology graduate programme of U.U. Graduate School of Health Science established in 2012 within the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine offers Doctor of Philosopsy (Ph.D) degree in the field of Virology.
After the successful completion of the program and fulfillment of requirements, a doctoral degree in Virology is awarded.
Third Cycle
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Specific Admission Requirements
To apply for a doctoral program;
- Candidates must hold a Master´s degree, or a degree in medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine, or, for those with degrees in pharmacy and faculty of arts and sciences, an expert certificate in a department of laboratory as approved by Ministry of Health. A direct admission to the doctoral program with a Bachelor´s degree depends on specific requirements of the doctoral program.
- For health sciences, holders of Bachelor´s and Master´s degrees must possess ALES with the minimum acceptable score on sciences determined by the Senate.
- Among foreign languages such as English, German, French, Italian, Russian and Arabic, and for foreign nationals, among languages such as English, German, and French, candidates must demonstrate proficiency in a language by satisfying one of the following exams; ÜDS, KPDS, TOEFL or equivalent approved by YÖK, and provide the minimum acceptable score as approved by the Senate. Recognition of any other foreign language qualifications is dependent on the Senate.
- For foreign nationals, admission requirement shall be any of the following; Turkish Proficiency Exam by TÖMER and corresponding ALES score, or scores in exams such as GRE or GMAT, accepted as internationally equivalent by YÖK.
- Candidates for Master´s and doctoral programs must possess a minimum score of 55 points in ALES; 50 language points in ÜDS/KPDS/UÜDS or equivalent for Master´s programs, and 55 language points in ÜDS/KPDS or equivalent for doctoral programs. For foreign nationals, a Document by TÖMER certifying the knowledge of Turkish (except for those studying in Turkey) is accepted equivalent to the score of the exams approved by YÖK as an equivalent language proficiency exam. Those applying for doctoral programs with TUS are required to possess a minimum score of 50 points in related field. Those who score below 60 points in overall performance are not admitted. In evaluation, the listed exams are responsible for the following percentages: TUS/ALES score 50%, Foreign Language 15%, GPA of Bachelor´s/Master´s degree 15%, interview 20%.
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Specific arrangements for the recognition of prior learning
The provisions in “Regulation on Transfer among Associate and Undergraduate Degree Programs, Double Major, and Subspecialty and the Principals of Credit Transfer among Institutions in Higher Education Institutions” are applied.
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Qualification Requirements and Regulations
In order to achieve the degree of PhD, students in the program must take and successfully complete all required Must Courses and Professional Must Courses. And students must get at least 75 points out of 100 in each course.
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Profile of The Programme
The aim of the Virology Ph.D program is to educate qualified persons about basic characteristics of viruses, their epidemiology and pathogenesis, antiviral immunity and virological laboratory activities. Furthermore this programme intends to give informations about viral disease of animals and viral zoonosis, their spesific diagnosis and prevention methods besides earn abilities to make evaluation on the cases. In order to develop scientific research abilities in an intense research environment, it is awaited from PhD students join to the projects, publish articles, prepare and write seminars in every educational term, participate to project training, scientific meetings and literature presentation.
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Key Learning Outcomes & Classified & Comparative
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Developing innovations and problem resolving by/and creative and criticizing thoughts.
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Presenting scientific, technologic, social or cultural innovations in own special field and contributing to the evolution of own knowledge-based society.
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Assessing and using new knowledge systematically.
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Developing innovations with different and new thoughts, methods, design and/or manipulating and/or improving current information. Also using current methods in different fields and searching inventive subjects.
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Understanding also relevant fields; analyzing and deducing recent and complicate thoughts, which need expertise.
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Using strategic decisions in problem resolving.
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Defend original views when exchanging ideas in the field with professionals and communicate effectively by showing competence in the field
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Assessing, synthesizing and rewieved analyzing of current information or innovations.
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Getting advanced abilities in specialized field methods and researches.
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Publishing at least one paper in own special field in a national/international refereed journal and/or developing own thought by generating or interpreting current information.
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Leading in resolving problems in related or inventive fields
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Communicating and discussing written, verbal and visual with a level of European Language portfolio C1
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Occupational Profiles of Graduates With Examples
Various sections and faculties of the university
Research institutes of Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock
Province local control laboratories of Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock
Various research institutions (TÜBİTAK. Atomic Energy Agency etc)
Private institutions for vaccine and biological material production
Private institutions for production of diagnostics
Private diagnostic and analytic laboratories
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Access to Further Studies
The entrance into postgraduate doctoral studies is possible for candidates who have successfully earned a Bachelor´s degree, and can provide ALES with a passing grade and meet foreign language qualifications.
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Examination Regulations, Assessment and Grading
The exams of the courses can be done written, written-oral or applied. In order to take the tests of the postgraduate programs, the attendance of the courses is required to be at least 70% or 80%. The exams are evaluated by over 100points awarded. To be successful, at master with thesis and master without thesis programs, it is required to get at least 70 points out of 100 points; at doctorate and proficiency in art programs it is required to get at least 75 points out of 100 points.
Within the frame of the principals mentioned above, to evaluate the points as letter grades; getting AA, BA, BB, CB and CC at master degree and scientific preparation programs, and AA,BA, BB and CB at doctorate programs are considered successful at the courses.
At postgraduate programs, a student failed at any course can take the exams at the end of the semester even if the course is not opened up the following semester. The student failed at this exam on the ground of absence or not carrying out the preconditions of the lesson repeats the lesson when it is opened up. If the lesson is subtracted or not opened up, an equivalent lesson to it is determined by the suggestion of the concerned head of department and by the decision of the board. Under these circumstances, the student is responsible of the equivalent lesson instead of the lesson that s/he needs to repeat.
The adjustment of the grades of the students who practice upon the national or international student Exchange programs like Erasmus and Farabi are executed by the decision of the board and the decision by the institution directory. These grades are recorded to the academic transcript.
The academic standing of the student is determined at the end of every semester on the term grade point averages and general grade point averages that is calculated on the coefficients given as the letter grades according to the concerned regulations.
Term grade point averages and general grade point averages are calculated by the grade point averages. Grade point average (GPA) is calculated by the division of the total credits to the total out of the multiplication of the course credits and letter grades’s equivalents. GPA is calculated as two digits after the comma.
Both term grade point average and general grade point average are determined by the grades of the courses from AA to FF.
All of the grades are recorded to the academic transcript.
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Graduation Requirements
Doctorate program is formed by at least eight courses providing that they are not less than 24 credits and more than 30 credits, one seminar at course and dissertation stage, proficiency test, thesis suggestion, thesis study, thesis exam and the publications stated at the regulation’s 44th article’s second subsection.
For the students accepted with bachelor degrees, the program is formed by fourteen courses providing that they are not less than 42 credits and more than 50 credits, one seminar at course and dissertation stage, proficiency test, thesis suggestion, thesis study, thesis exam and the publications stated at the regulation’s 44th article’s second subsection.
The thesis should have one of the following features: novelty to science, developing a new scientific method or applying a known method to a new branch. It should be published as the full text at an international index magazine. The name of the doctorate student may not be the first one. The publication of the candidate who is going to take the argument of the doctorate should be about the doctorate thesis or the branch s/he is doing doctorate.
Full-Time/Part-Time
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Address and Contact Details
Prof.Dr.Kadir YEŞİLBAĞ
Uludağ Üniversitesi Veteriner Fakültesi Viroloji Anabilim Dalı, Görükle kampusü, Bursa
kyesilbag@uludag.edu.tr
0224 2941295
There are 5 lecturer giving courses in Virology PhD program. Besides the basic and practical lectures in virology, immunology and biochemistry lectures are given to expand the competence of candidates. There are 2 research laboratories exist in the department. Doctorate students have chance to apply different methods including cell culture, ELISA and PCR for their practical works and thesis in these laboratories which submit a strong research infrastructure.
