In early January 2005, we submitted the application materials for the Doctoral School to the Hungarian Accreditation Committee for accreditation. The Plenary of the Hungarian Accreditation Committee rejected our application at its April meeting, based on the proposal of the Doctoral Council. We filed an appeal against the decision on the grounds of a material error. At its meeting on October 28, 2005, the Hungarian Accreditation Committee again discussed our application and our appeal regarding the previous decision, as a result of which it accredited our Doctoral School in the field of Health Sciences. The accreditation covers doctoral training, the award of PhD degrees, habilitation, and naturalization. We are particularly pleased that the accreditation was not granted on a temporary basis, contrary to tradition. Our Doctoral School aims to provide theoretical and practical training for registered nurses, registered midwives, and dietitians, as well as for doctoral candidates with medical and biological, clinical biochemists, clinical chemists, and pharmacist degrees. Later, it will become an MSc program, and is currently also available for physiotherapists with a BSc level. During the education, the candidate is introduced to the basic principles of health science research, with particular attention to the methodology of biostatistics, epidemiological, sociological, biological, physiological-pathophysiological and clinical research and the application of the results in practice. The research and teaching staff of the programs consists of highly qualified, internationally publishing professionals. The expected successful operation of the programs may be indicated by the fact that the leaders of the programs have previously helped numerous students to obtain scientific degrees in other doctoral schools. The educational and research activities of the Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of Pécs, as well as the research staff working at the faculty, supplemented by some researchers from the Faculty of General Medicine working in border areas, can provide an appropriate professional background for the operation of a health science-interdisciplinary doctoral school.
The core members are 5 university professors and 3 habilitated associate professors participating in the faculty's education, 1 of whom holds a doctorate degree from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and 1 emeritus core member is a professor emeritus with a doctorate degree from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
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