Your degree needs to fulfil the following admission criteria (§ 4 Doctoral Regulations):

Dr. med:

•     Master's degree in human medicine / State examination in human medicine / an exam equivalent to the German state medical exams
•     Proof of equivalency of your foreign degree with a European / German degree
•     Proof of German professional licence / Approbation (optional)
•     Language skills in German or English

Dr. med. dent:

•     Master's degree in dentistry / State examination in dentistry / an exam equivalent to the German state dentistry exam
•     Proof of equivalency of your foreign degree with a European / German degree
•     Proof of German professional licence / Approbation (optional)
•     Language skills in German or English

Dr. PH (Public Health):

•     A state examination in human medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine, pharmacy or a master's degree at a foreign academic university in the life sciences, social sciences or public health
•     Proof of equivalency of your foreign degree with a European / German degree
•     Language skills in German or English

PhD in Medical Sciences:

•     Master's degree in Life Sciences
•     Grade 2.0 or better / ECTS B / top 25% of class
•     Proof of equivalency of your foreign degree with a European/German degree
•     Language skills in German or English

In general, you will have to request a request for recognition of your university degree, if you hold one of the following degrees:

•     a German degree of a subject not offered at HHU.
•     a degree of a subject which is not equivalent to the subject of the doctoral project.
•     a  degree from outside of Germany.

For degrees from non-EU countries, a positive evaluation by the Central Office for Foreign Education in Bonn (ZAB) must be submitted.
For university degrees from the EU, a printout from the anabin database confirming equivalence is usually sufficient for registration.
Information on the recognition procedure and the anabin database:
https://anabin.kmk.org/anabin.html

Applicants from VR China, Vietnam, Mongolia
Please submit a valid APS certificate from the German Embassy and show the original certificate to the office of the Graduate Center Medicine.

This will be your most important task. You will have to find and convince a supervisor to support you and develop a project together.

In general, if you are planning a research stay at the Medical Faculty, please directly contact the institute / clinic.
You will find more information on research at the Faculty of Medicine on our webpages: https://www.medizin.hhu.de/en/research

The Graduate Center Medicine does not connect candidates with open positions. We also do not provide funding for PhD researchers.

In our faculty, a good command of either English or German is required for your doctoral studies. You will need to submit a proof of your language proficiency to the Medical Graduate Center on admission to doctoral studies.

Required language skills/certificates:

German:
•    DSH-2
•    TestDaF (TDN 4)
•    Kleines or Großes Deutsches Sprachdiplom (Goethe-Institut)

English:
•    IELTS-Test (at least 6.0)
•    TOEFL-Test (at least Paper 500, Computer200, iBT 80)

When starting a doctoral project at the Faculty of Medicine, please pay special attention to the duration of doctoral studies:

Dr. med.  / Dr. med. dent.

• The duration of the doctoral project for Dr. med. / Dr. med. dent. at our faculty is determined by the doctoral regulations. You have a maximum of 4 years to complete the dissertation. This means that you must conduct your research, write your dissertation and submit it for examination within this time.

Dr. PH (Public Health)

• You have a maximum of 4 years for a Dr. PH. You must take into account that at least 2 years of scientific activity related to public health is part of the admission requirements.

PhD in Medical Sciences

• The scientific work for a PhD in Medical Sciences usually takes three to four years.

The duration of the doctoral studies can vary. It does not only depend on the success of your research project. Other factors will be the timely submission of the written reports, finding a date for the defense and others. Oral examinations cannot take place before submission of both reports.

Please note, that your physical presence is mandatory for the defense of your thesis. You may have to re-enter the country for it.

You can officially enrol for doctoral studies at the Student Services Center of Heinrich Heine University (SSC), once you have been admitted to doctoral studies by the Dean's office. You will need an official letter by the Graduate Center Medicine.

If this takes longer than anticipated, you will be able to enrol as "guest doctoral researcher from abroad". More information can be found on JUNO's webpages. Just in case...