In order to receive Ph.D. degree you must complete the course and receive necessary ECTS credits. At the end of the course, you must present to the Dean Office your original research results in the form of Ph.D. thesis written under the guidance of your tutor. The thesis is then scored by at least two external reviewers/ experts in your area of medicine. The major features of your work assessed by the experts are the originality, interest to the field and quality of the research presented in the thesis. It usually means that your results should be on the level allowing to publish them in the international peer-reviewed journal or register them as a patent. Having positive comments from the experts, you must pass three additional exams before public defense: on basic discipline related to the field of your research, on philosophy (or ethics or history of medicine) and on foreign language. The final step is the public defense of your Ph.D. thesis in a front of the Faculty Board of senior scientists who grants you the title of Philosophy Doctor.