About PhD Care & Rehabilitation Sciences

The PhD program in „Care and Rehabilitation Sciences“ is run in cooperation with the ZHAW School of Health Professions. It opens a university postgraduate qualification opportunity (Dr. sc. med. / PhD) in research for the health professions regulated in the Swiss Healthcare Occupations Act GesBG.

It promotes high-quality research and offers structured postgraduate training in the fundamentals and methods of research.

The focus of the PhD program in „Care and Rehabilitation Sciences“ lies on research with people with or without health issues in the areas of prevention, clinical (outpatient or inpatient) treatment and rehabilitation, and on applied studies grounded on basic research for the developement and improvement of interventions and treatments.

The Faculty of Medicine of the UZH offers further PhD programs with which the PhD program in „Care and Rehabilitation Sciences“ cooperates.