Doctoral school Oncology : Biology, Medicine, Health

PhD at Université Paris Saclay

https://www.universite-paris-saclay.fr/en/research/doctorate-and-habilitation-supervise-research-hdr-french

The charter defines a certain number of values and principles that underpin the relationship between the doctoral student and the thesis supervisor and, more generally, between all the actors involved in a doctoral training project.

PhD at PSL University

https://collegedoctoral.psl.eu/en/psl-doctorate/

PhD at the CBMS Doctoral School

• Thesis Committees (CSI)
• A personalized training plan
• Scientific Days
• An Association of PhD students: PoP'

Calendar:

An academic year begins on September 1 and ends on August 31

Registration is annual and is renewed at the beginning of each academic year

In the 2nd - 3rd year and beyond, the registration must be renewed between September 1st and October 15th, in all cases, including when the first registration took place late.

PhD students who defend their thesis between September and December of an academic year, are covered by their registration in the previous academic year and do not have to re-register

First registration (1st year)

Your first registration takes place once you have been admitted to the thesis. As for the admission to a thesis, the administrative management of your registration file (and then re-registration) is done by the ADUM platform.

The signing of your employment contract with the University or any other employer (if applicable) is done in parallel with your first registration.

Later registrations are also possible, until April 30th.

Re-enrollment (2nd year and +)

Re-enrollment in a thesis does not require you to go through the admission process. The administrative management of your re-registration file is entirely paperless and is done on the ADUM platform.

• You must submit your Thesis Monitoring Committee report in your ADUM space for each of your re-registrations

THE THESIS

The CBMS Doctoral School informs doctoral students from their 1st registration in a thesis that the reference duration of their thesis is 3 years in accordance with the decree of 25 May 2016 (article 14).

In this context, the ED CBMS insists on the 4 points that must characterize a thesis:

• Excellence of the doctoral project
• Valorization of research work in terms of publications, patents, etc.
• Completed additional training adapted to the doctoral student
• Preparation of a credible professional project

Requests for derogation beyond a 3rd year of the thesis must be quite exceptional and must be based on a favourable opinion from the CSI and funding.

TRAINING

tableau_indicatif_formation_cbms.pdf - ( 88.32 KB)

https://www.universite-paris-saclay.fr/en/recherche/doctorat-et-hdr/complementary-doctoral-activities-and-training

The training plan is based on a competency-based approach:

• Designing a research approach
• Do, get done and collaborate
• Share

The training plan is to be built according to their needs, profiles and projects with learning that can be mobilized, in the short, medium and long term:

• For the preparation of the thesis,
• For their professional mobility,
• For the rest of your career, regardless of the industry

Doctoral students at the ED CBMS have access to:

• Master 2 in Oncology Paris-Saclay
• Employment conferences (IFSBM, ED Biosigne)
• Anti-tumor chemotherapy course at Gustave Roussy's ESC
• Colloquiums / Congresses / Seminars

Every year, the CBMS Doctoral School organizes the Scientific Days which bring together about a hundred PhD students and the 2nd and 3rd year of their thesis present their research work in the form of posters and oral communications.

The Monitoring Committee - CSI

https://www.universite-paris-saclay.fr/en/individual-phd-student-monitoring-committee-csi

The objectives are:

• to ensure the smooth running of the course by referring to the doctoral charter and the individual training agreement
• to evaluate the conditions of its training and the progress of its research
• make recommendations and submit a report
• in particular, to ensure that any form of conflict, discrimination or harassment is prevented

The individual monitoring committee for each doctoral student is set up in the first year of doctoral registration.

If necessary and in agreement with his/her thesis supervisor, the doctoral student may request the holding of an individual monitoring committee at any time.

The Defense

• The thesis defense must take place before the end of the 3rd year, following the start of the thesis funding (except in exceptional cases)
• The thesis defense must be public (except in exceptional cases)
• A first-author article has been accepted, or submitted to an international peer-reviewed journal (an original article, a journal, a method article, etc.)
• The thesis manuscript may be written in French or English. In the latter case, a substantial abstract in French, appended to the thesis, the length of which is between 4000 characters including spaces and twenty (20) pages

Defense - inform 3 months before the School of the date of defense

1. Appointment of rapporteurs + examiners
2. Submission of the thesis on ADUM
3. Returning Reports
4. 1st legal deposit - appointment with your university library
5. Authorization to defend
6. Defense minutes
7. –Defence–
8. 2nd legal deposit - appointment with your university's library
9. Diploma

Detailed Procedures

UPSA: https://www.universite-paris-saclay.fr/en/recherche/doctorat-et-hdr/phd-defense

PSL: https://collegedoctoral.psl.eu/en/psl-doctorate/dissertation-defense/

Devices set up by the ED CBMS for the follow-up of the integration of doctors

Each year, the CBMS Doctoral School conducts, on the basis of a questionnaire, an in-depth survey and statistical analyses on the future of PhDs during the 3 years after the thesis (commitment of doctoral students to respond in the thesis charter and to provide their contact details).

In addition, Université Paris-Saclay also has a follow-up procedure in place via Interceptum.

Actions carried out jointly with companies, local authorities, associations, etc.

In view of the medical purpose of the Ecole Docotrale CBMS, partnerships with industrial laboratories are essential, on the one hand to ensure the training of certain doctoral students destined for the private sector and on the other hand to involve potential employers in the professional integration of doctoral students.

As a result, links have been established with large and medium-sized laboratories such as SANOFI, ROCHE, BAYER, PFIZER, SERVIER, PIERRE FABRE, IPSEN, as well as high-performance start-ups working in one of the cancer sectors.

The CBMS Doctoral School is clearly a beneficial pole of attraction for the Ile-de-France Sud region. This is why this structure was set up with the support of local and regional authorities and that of many local elected officials, in particular those of the Val de Marne Ouest agglomeration community (Arcueil, Cachan, Fresnes, Gentilly, Le Kremlin Bicêtre, l'Haÿ les Roses and Villejuif). The leaders of the ED participate alongside the elected representatives in the reflections concerning the development of the health centre, the problems of welcoming foreign teachers and students, the problems of communication, etc. Finally, it should be noted that the ED of oncology is one of the structuring training systems in the Ile de France region and has established in this context functional links with the competitiveness cluster MEDICEN Paris region, which has included oncology and training actions in its priority axes.

Actions implemented to optimize integration

During the thesis, the CBMS Doctoral School strongly encourages the doctoral student to build his or her professional project throughout the thesis. The CBMS Doctoral School is committed to promoting the integration of doctoral students who wish to pursue a career in the private or public sector.

The ED CBMS strongly encourages PhD students to:

• Take training courses in the following areas: oral communication, time and relationship management, openness to the business world, training in higher education and research, training in intellectual property, scientific English! Most of these courses will be shared within the framework of the Paris Saclay doctoral college and, when this is not the case, the doctoral school will offer ad-hoc training. Specific training is essential since the labour market, the nature of the companies, the nature of the jobs offered and the methods of access to employment may vary from one sector to another.
• Participate in doctoral students' associations and participate in events allowing them to expand their networks and to learn about the post-thesis period (forums, doctoral exams, welcome days, etc.).

The Ecole Docotrale CBMS also involves private actors in its operation (e.g. at the level of the Council) in order to facilitate reciprocal information between doctoral training and the world of potential employers.

Hosting foreign PhD students

The CBMS Doctoral School welcomes a significant number of foreign students from their country of origin to the 80 EADs. These are not only EU nationals, but also North American, Latin American, Maghreb and Asian. The ED also welcomes several foreign students who have completed an M2 in France.

At the steady state, about 1/3 of doctoral students are of foreign nationality. The CBMS Doctoral School welcomes many foreign doctors from all countries, including Latin America, which can be considered as a parameter of attractiveness, an attractiveness linked to a very large extent to the scientific quality of the host teams.

Cotutelle agreements

A co-supervision of a thesis is the sharing, by the Université Paris-Saclay or PSL and a foreign higher education institution, of the responsibility for the training and supervision of a doctoral student. To this end, two research supervisors, with the agreement of the institutions to which they belong, develop a joint training programme for the doctoral student. The latter carries out his schooling and work by attending, alternately, both establishments. He defends his thesis in front of a jury set up by the two partners, who award him a unique diploma.

The formula of co-supervision of a thesis therefore presupposes one or more stays abroad as well as the co-supervision of the thesis, but it is not limited to these modalities — hence the importance of clearly distinguishing its specificity.

https://www.universite-paris-saclay.fr/en/international-cotutelle-agreement

National and international openness

The priority objective of the CBMS Doctoral School is to regularly increase its international impact in a significant way by promoting the implementation of institutional agreements with foreign universities to promote the exchange of doctoral students: hosting French doctoral students in foreign laboratories and vice versa.

It also encourages the mobility of its doctoral students, by setting up international thesis co-supervisions: https://www.universite-paris-saclay.fr/en/international-co-supervision-doctorate

The ED favours theses carried out within the framework of scientific collaborations between laboratories.