Degree Requirements


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In addition to the general Laney Graduate School requirements, the Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences has several additional requirements that provide students with skills that are often overlooked in graduate training programs, but that are essential for success in academic or industrial research careers.

Students usually choose three faculty members with whom they would like to do a laboratory rotation. This allows the student the opportunity to interact with three faculty members and learn about different areas of research before selecting an advisor.

Students take a course that provides workshops on syllabus writing and grading, lecturing and leading discussions, the use of writing as a pedagogical tool, the conduct of lab sessions, and the use of new technologies. A Teaching Assistantship follows, where the student is carefully monitored in an initial teaching opportunity.

Teaching opportunities can be found at Emory Teaching Research: Other Teaching Opportunities.

Students are given the opportunity to hear outstanding scientists present their research in seminars, and the students also develop their own communication and presentation skills when they give seminars on their own research.

Several programs require that their students prepare a Ph.D. research dissertation proposal in the form of a National Institutes of Health or National Science Foundation research grant application.

Oral & Written