Over the last decade, the number of health care doctoral students at Makerere University College of Health Sciences (MakCHS) has increased by over 10 fold with the increasing funding opportunities for capacity building for health care and health leadership [ 1, 2].
The benefits to patients of nurses receiving doctorates is unclear, since there is no evidence that nurses with doctoral degrees provide better care than those with master's degrees do.
We don't often hear about the majority of supervisors who try to balance support, critique and structure with the varying levels of care that doctoral researchers need and want.
The Reverend Lorena M. Parrish, Ph.D. is womanist scholar-activist, ordained minister in American Baptist Churches, U.S.A., adjunct at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York and academic advisor/mentor for doctoral students in Pastoral Care and Counseling at New Brunswick Theological Seminary.
With increasing numbers of health care professionals undertaking doctoral study, we can develop practice by listening to their 'living voices'.
The American philosopher of education Nell Noddings is helpful when thinking about the kind of care involved in doctoral supervision.
On Dec. 1, Johns Hopkins University will begin offering financial assistance for child care costs to doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows and trainees.
For his doctoral thesis, he examined intensive-care units in Maryland, and he discovered that putting an intensivist on staff reduced death rates by a third.
She has worked with families affected by dementia for the last 20 years and is currently undertaking doctoral studies at UCL on advance care planning in dementia.
New York University, whose medical school is just north of the Bellevue complex, proposed housing for post-doctoral students, doctors' offices, conference space and a child care center.
