Relationships Among DNP and PhD Students After Implementing a Doctoral Student Organization

Doctoral Nursing Students’ Viewpoints about the Nursing PhD Curriculum

Introduction: Program evaluation is one of the strategies for developing and improving educational programs in every discipline and level of study. It also helps to improve the program effectiveness and efficacy. The aim of this study was to determine the doctoral nursing students’ viewpoints about the nursing PhD curriculum. Methods: A descriptive study was performed on 20 randomly selected d...

A Study of PhD Students’ Perspectives Concerning Pedagogic Training in Doctoral Program

Introduction: Many PhD students will continue their academic career as university lecturers; therefore they should be familiar with presentation skills. Most universities around the world offer postgraduate pedagogic courses in their PhD curriculums, while such courses are not included in most Iranian PhD programs. Thus at the Education Development Office of Mashhad Medical School, we offered t...

Building Relationships 1 FACULTY-DOCTORAL STUDENT COLLABORATIONS Building Relationships Around Tasks: Psychological Contracts in Faculty-Doctoral Student Collaborations

Psychological contracts theory is applied to the study of faculty-doctoral student collaborations. Through a survey of 170 doctoral students, four types of psychological contracts are investigated. The quality of collaboration and frequency of meetings are found to differ significantly across these contract types. In addition, quality of collaboration and meeting frequency varied significantly ...

DOCTORAL (PhD) DISSERTATION THESES

Completing a PhD in business and management: A brief guide to doctoral students and universities

Purpose Despite the ever-growing number of PhD students all over the world, there remain significant doubts about whether entering students in business and management disciplines fully understand the process of producing a PhD thesis, defending it and developing a coherent publication strategy. Hence, this viewpoint article aims to offer some guidance on what it takes to successfully complete a...