The M.Sc. and PhD thesis are assessed by a board of examiners approved by the Chairman of the Program Committee on the recommendation of the research supervisor.
Writing
Your dissertation or thesis must strictly comply with the presentation standards set out in the Guide to the presentation and evaluation of mémoires and theses produced by Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (available in French only). Guides and document templates, as well as many tools, are available on the UdeM Libraries website.
Please read carefully the policy on the condition for presenting mémoires end thesis in the Faculty of Medicine (mémoire or thesis in traditional, article, or hybrid form). Please also read the Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies guidelines on the use of Artificial Intelligence in mémoires and theses.
If you wish to write your mémoire or thesis in the form of articles, you must complete the request form and send it to the programs before beginning the writing process.
Initial Submission
You must send a notice of submission to the Programs Office approximately 2 months before the submission date (Form for the M.Sc.; Form for the Ph.D.). This will initiate the jury nomination process (Form for the jury nomination – M.Sc.; form for the jury nomination – Ph.D.), which must be completed at least one month before the initial submission to avoid delays. It is sufficient to recommend one member for each position on the jury, provided that all candidates have completed, signed and returned to the program administration the conflict of interest declaration form (Form FR, form ENG). Please see the second page of this form for the criteria used to judge the eligibility of a candidate for a thesis or dissertation jury.
The initial submission can be made by email to the Program. If the files are not too large, you can send them as attachments (in Word format and PDF format). Alternatively, you can send by email a OneDrive link to the PDF and Word documents.
Electronic submission of the M.Sc. and Ph.D. thesis (Final deposit)
Once evaluated and approved by the Examination Board, the thesis or the dissertation should be electronically submitted. Please visit the website of the libraries of the University of Montreal for more information.
Composition of the Thesis Committee
- the Chair person, who must be a member of the programs. This choice must be made in consultation with the Responsible of the attach Unit;
- the research supervisor and research co-supervisor if applicable;
- an external member to the research centre;
- an external member to the Université de Montréal (only in case of thesis);
- a representative of the Dean, external to your research center (only in the case of a thesis). The latter does not evaluate the thesis, but attends the defense and ensures that it goes smoothly
Only one candidate should be nominated for each position. Before agreeing to serve as an examiner for a dissertation or doctoral thesis, each of these candidates must determine whether there are any conflicts of interest that could be perceived as prejudicial to your evaluation (in which case he or she cannot be part of your jury). Details can be found on the Conflict of Interest Declaration Form. The student must send this form to each proposed examiner, asking them to complete it and return it to the program director (msc-biologie-moleculaire@meddir.umontreal.ca or phd-biologie-moleculaire@meddir.umontreal.ca, depending on the cycle of study).