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Graduation Requirements

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Graduation Requirement for the Department of Convergence Medical Sciences

1. Graduation Examinations

  1. Students must pass the written examination for graduation, which consists of 2 elective courses, 4 subjects (for Master’s) or 5 subjects (for doctorate).
  2. To pass the examination, the student must score higher than 60 (for master’s) or 70 (for doctorate) from each subject.

2. Thesis Proposals and Progress Report

  1. Once a student completes two semesters, the student must submit his/her thesis proposal to the Thesis Defense Committee and receive the approval.
  2. A doctorate student must give open oral presentation of his/her thesis proposal during the relevant year.
  3. Upon the submission of thesis proposal, the student must give open oral presentations of annual progress report.
  4. If the thesis proposal and the progress report is denied by the Thesis Defense Committee, the student must submit another proposal within 6 months from the date of denial. If the proposal has been denied for 3 times, then the student is no longer able to continue with his curriculum.

3. Criteria for the Submission of Thesis

A student is eligible to submit his/her thesis once he/she satisfies the following criteria:
  1. The student is predicted to complete 24 credits (for master’s) or 36 credits (for doctorate)
  2. The student has passed the graduation examination
  3. Doctorate student must have written papers as a lead author that are published or confirmed for publication for the international journals (with the sum of SCIE IF of 5.0 or higher, or 2 journals of relevant field of research with upper 50% JCR). If the student is co-lead author, the IF scores and number of papers published shall be divided by the number of co-lead authors for the evaluation.
    Important Note: the student must have published at least 1 Original article.

4. Thesis Defense Committee

  1. The advisor must recommend defense committee members at the time of submission of dissertation.
  2. Final defense committee shall be composed of 3 members for master’s defense and 5 members for doctoral defense.
  3. The members of defense committee should have published at least 2 papers on SCIE-level journals for the past 3 years. (amended, 2014.7.31.)
  4. The advisor must not be the chairperson of this committee.

5. Guidelines for Writing Thesis

Thesis must be written in English.