The Regulation of the Postgraduate Studies establishes the following monitoring procedure of the doctoral students:

Article 15. Tutors of Doctoral theses: Once accepted and enrolled in the doctoral programme, the academic committee will appoint each doctoral student a tutor, who has to be a doctor with accredited researching experience, attached to the Department of Physiology of the Universitat de València, as programme organizing.

Article 16. Direction of Doctoral Theses. The academic committee responsible of the programme will appoint to each doctoral student, within a maximum period of six months since their enrolment, one director of doctoral thesis who may coincide or not with the tutor. This director can be any doctor with properly accredited researching experience independent from the university, centre or institute where he/she develops his/her work.

Article 17. Doctoral commitment document:

After formalising the first year enrolment, the doctoral student, the University, the tutors and the directors should jointly subscribe the doctoral commitment document, related to, among other questions, procedures of conflict solving which can be applied to aspects concerning to copyright or industrial property and in general to the monitoring functions of the research activity of the doctoral student. The Programme will ask the doctoral candidate to submit the Doctoral commitment document in the Office of the Secretary of the Department of Physiology before the end of the academic year.

Article 18. Activities document and research plan of doctoral students:

Before the end of the first year the doctoral student will make a research plan supported by the supervisor and the directors. This plan has to include the methodology and goals, the mediums and the time planning as well as a positive report by the Ethics Committee in Experimental Research of the Universitat de València if applicable. This plan can be improved throughout their stay in the doctoral programme and must be supported by the supervisor and the director. The Programme will ask the doctoral candidate to submit the Research plan in the Office of the Secretary of the Department of Physiology before the end of the academic year.

Once the first enrolment is done, a personalised activities document will be issued for each doctoral student, where all the activities of interest for the development of the doctoral student will be recorded, as well as the development of the thesis, under the purpose of being reviewed by the thesis supervisor and director, and being assessed by the appropriate Academic Committee of the doctoral programme.

The Ethics Committee will asses research plans which include experimentation with humans or biological human samples, experimentation with animals, the use of biological pathogenic agents or genetically-modified organisms.

Yearly the student will present the report issued by the supervisor and the director of the academic year that ends. The Academic Committee will assess the Research plan and the activities document together with thereports issued by the supervisor and the director. The positive evaluation will be a requirement to be able to continue in the programme. In the event of a negative evaluation, which must be supported, the doctoral students must be assessed again within six months. In order to do so they must develop a new research plan. If there is a second negative evaluation, the doctoral student will be permanently withdrawn of the programme. Against these resolutions, which do not exhaust the administrative procedures, the applicant may lodge an appeal, which will be determined upon a report from the Postgraduates Studies Committees by the Principal or by his/her delegate. For the enrolment of successive years a favourable report by the Academic Committee on the personal activities document and the research plan is necessary. These documents will have to be inscribed and registered in the Postgraduate Centre’s Third-Cycle Unit. The Program will ask the doctoral candidate to fill out the report issued by the supervisor and the director with their details, to send it to their supervisor and director so that they can make and sign the report. The doctoral student has to present it in the Office of the Secretary of the Department of Physiology before the end of the academic year.

The course that has carried out some transversal training activity, the student has to present a Report on training activities realised during the academic year. The Programma will request it before the end of the academic year.