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Rheumatology 2000; 39: 560-562
© 2000 British Society for Rheumatology

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How to supervise a thesis—best practice

D. A. Isenberg and M. Salmon on behalf of the Research Training Committee of the British Society for Rheumatology

Centre for Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University College London, Arthur Stanley House, 40–50 Tottenham Street, London WIP 9PG and Department of Rheumatology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

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   Introduction
 
Many rheumatologists during the course of their training will undertake a period of clinical or basic research, on average from 2 to 4 yr, which will result in the publication of one or more papers and the submission of a thesis. The committee has expressed its views about the pros and cons of undertaking an MD or a PhD (or even an MSc) elsewhere [1]. Although there has been a tradition that the MD is an unsupervised degree, in our view this practice should be strongly discouraged. Whichever of these degrees is eventually submitted, the student requires supervision. Supervision should be a symbiotic relationship; it is certainly not a trivial one and much time and thought needs to be given to the task.

The traditional practice of limited or no supervision for clinical research fellows is not satisfactory, because no one can do research instinctively. The scientific method . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   Choosing a supervisor
 

   Choosing a student
 

   Supervision—getting going
 

   Supervision—following it through
 

   Conclusions
 

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