It aims to train professionals with a solid scientific foundation in Nursing Sciences, enabling them to contribute to raising the population's health level. Research topics will be related to scientific problems in the doctoral student's country of origin, although exceptionally, depending on the case and with prior authorization, the research could be carried out in Cuba. Once your application is approved, you will be notified electronically to begin the relevant procedures. Doctoral training programs use a cumulative credit system, valid for five years. Doctoral students must have spent at least one year physically in Cuba during their entire enrollment period.
The exams required to obtain the scientific degree are:
1. Minimum exams.
* Foreign language (in the case of foreign doctoral students who are not native Spanish speakers, the exam is in Spanish).
* Social problems of science and technology.
* Specialty.
2. Pre-defense exercise of the thesis before an evaluation team.
3. Thesis defense exercise before the Tribunal.
The doctoral training program has a total fee of twelve thousand USD (USD 12,000.00), divided into different stages:
1. Enrollment: USD 1,000.00, once your enrollment has been accepted by the Academic Committee.
2. Examinations to demonstrate mastery of the contents of social problems of science and technology and the foreign language (languages approved for Spanish speakers are English, French, and German). The payments for each exam are USD 1,500.00 (total of USD 3,000.00).
3. Pre-defense: USD 1,500.00.
4. Defense: USD 2,500.00.
5. Tutoring and advising of USD 4,000.00 to be paid in two equal installments of USD 2,000.00 each. The first during the first 30 days after enrollment in the program and the second before the pre-defense.
If you are interested in this program, you should contact the Coordination and Processing Center of the Comercializadora de Servicios Médicos Cubanos, S.A. via email at docencia@smcsalud.cu