Overview

Education

The Humanities and Social Sciences of Medicine program at the University of Lausanne is an interdisciplinary field of academic research that investigates the foundations, meanings and limits of medicine and health care across time and space.

At the University of Lausanne, the Institute of the Humanities in Medicine (IHM) , being part of the CHUV, is a center of gravity for these research activities: it is composed of four major axes of research: history of medicine and public health, socio-anthropology of medicine, normative research on medicine (philosophy, ethics, and law), as well as applied humanities (spirituality and communication science in medicine).

The IHM has strong links to the clinical specialties of the CHUV and Unisanté, but also to the field of cantonal and national health policy.

The IHM offers a platform for PhD projects on all kinds of topics in the humanities and social sciences of medicine. PhD students will benefit from a rich and diversified offer of conferences, symposia and colloquia, multiple professors and postdoctoral researchers as supervisors in the field, as well as a renowned library with one of the largest collections of books and objects linked to the field.

Programme Structure

Axes of research:

History of medicine and public health

Socio-anthropology of medicine

Normative research on medicine (philosophy, ethics, and law)

Applied humanities (spirituality and communication science in medicine

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 36 months

Start dates & application deadlines

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More details

Admission to this program is done in agreement with the thesis supervisor and must be validated by the steering committee.

Language

English

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Lausanne, Switzerland

Disciplines

Medicine Liberal Arts View 7 other PhDs in Medicine in Switzerland

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.

Other requirements

General requirements

To hold a diploma or master's degree listed in the Rules [«Règlement pour l'obtention du grade de Docteur ès sciences de la vie (PhD)», Annex 1].

To have a thesis director and to have defined the research field in which the thesis will be carried out.
To be registered at the University of Lausanne and at the Faculty of Biology and Medicine from the beginning of the thesis work and for its entire duration.

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Tuition Fees

Additional Details

Candidates to doctoral studies pay semester fees of CHF 80. For their first semester they also have to pay a single additional admission fee of CHF 200.

Living costs

Lausanne

Switzerland

1609 - 1979 CHF / month

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Scholarships Information

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