Maritime Health Research and Education-NET/EDUCATION/Education module links/MSc Occupational Medical Research Education/Extended occupational medical research education 3-4 years 4000 hours Ph.D. study

After having obtained the needed skills to study and to produce a scientific published article as the first author in MSc Module1-3, the students are prepared to enter a Ph.D. study. According to the international requirements for a Ph.D., the students are obliged to publish 3 peer-reviewed, international scientific articles as first authors and a written summary of the articles in a Doctoral Dissertation. The dissertation can be based on independent data collection or secondary data from another side. Now, like in the Thesis work, the students can benefit from the possibilities to get data from The Maritime Health Research and Education-NET (MAHRE-Net). This program includes the permanent monitoring of the four main topics of the EU-Occupational Health strategy: Mental health, Ergonomics, Safety climate, and chemical-related Skin diseases. In the cohort design strategy, we will follow and support the young people from the maritime schools in their careers. The method is that we ask the classes of maritime students to fill out a short questionnaire about their health and wellbeing at the beginning of their studies. When they start their practice times at sea, they answer the same questions to identify the influence on their well-being on board. We measure how many of them leave the sea profession and we ask them how they think the profession can continue to be attractive to young people. It is intended to suggest and assist in the implementation of preventive measures based on the results. Here, the students will be able to contribute to the overall new knowledge about working conditions in the maritime area or in the land sector, in the same way as is practiced in the Mahre-Net program. Data may be from school classes in vocational schools and using the themes used in Mahre-Net or your choice. Projects with pooling of data from many countries and trends analysis and combining of different questionnaires will require experienced researchers and fundings. The skills gained in this course will enable you to pursue a career in research through universities or a combination of clinical healthcare practice research. The course is flexible and can be delivered on a full or part-time basis, attracting people who might also be working alongside their studies. In the end, an examen 45 min oral exam. After the defense of the Dissertation with external evaluators, a Ph.D.MSc Modulein Health Science is handed out.