First year
Advanced institutional activities or courses, seminar or laboratory activities, activities linked to the research project and approved by the Teaching Body.
List of courses/activities: Learning the principles of clinical research, Ability to conduct clinical studies, particularly phase III; Ability to conceive and conduct molecular target-oriented clinical studies;
Medical statistics course: introduction - qualitative and quantitative variables - position indices - variability and concentration - analysis on qualitative data
Presentation of a research project, assignment of a tutor and approval by the Teaching Body. Verification methods for admission to the following year. Annual verification of the progress of the research project through oral and written presentation with approval by the Teaching Body.
Second year
Advanced institutional courses or activities, Seminar or laboratory activities, Research-related activities or Training and research activities chosen independently by the doctoral student and approved by the Teaching Body
Provide advanced knowledge of the theoretical bases and scientific literature in the fields of imaging, endoscopic and molecular diagnostics for the diagnosis and treatment of solid tumors and in particular digestive, pulmonary and gynecological ones. Thesis preparation methods Progress of the research project with supervision of the tutor and approval by the Teaching Body.
Medical statistics course: analysis of parametric and non-parametric dependence - parametric and non-parametric tests - correlation
Annual verification of the progress of the research project through oral presentation with approval by the Teaching Body
Third year
Activities: Advanced institutional courses, seminar or laboratory activities and research-related activities; Training and research activities chosen independently by the doctoral student and approved by the Teaching Body
Medical statistics course: random variables, normal, t-student, poisson, exponential Bernoulli, reliability and consistency tests on clinical data - hypothesis testing on 2 means and 2 variances
List of courses/activities: Interventional studies (trials), observational studies, screening of neoplasms of the digestive, gynecological and pulmonary systems with the aim of producing translational research capable of applying the advanced knowledge produced in the laboratory to major contemporary clinical problems . Final doctoral exam with presentation of the thesis via oral presentation to the external doctoral commission