The overall objective of the Doctoral Programme is to provide training in biomedical research to Graduates in Sciences and Health Sciences through the scientific method and the systematic process of an increasingly multidisciplinary, intersectoral and multi-person research. For this purpose, and in order to optimise the research activity, the doctoral students will be integrated into one of the many and consolidated lines of research and resources of the Departments of the Faculty of Medicine and the University Hospitals attached to it. The doctoral studies shall, at minimum, guarantee the acquisition by the doctoral students of the basic competencies which are in the Spanish Qualifications Framework for Higher Education, specifically: systematic understanding of a field of study of legal sciences, and mastery of its skills and methods of research; ability to conceive, design or create, implement and adapt a substantial process of research and creation; ability to make a critical and assessment analysis, and synthesis of new and complex ideas, as well as communication with the academic and scientific community and society in general about their fields of knowledge; and and ability to promote, within academic and professional contexts, scientific, technological, social, artistic or cultural advance in a knowledge-based society.