Examiner (non-PAC)
Responsibilities
- Faculty external to the PAC will review the thesis and serve as a voting member at the oral examination
- For the PhD Departmental Oral Examination: reviews the IMS Examination Rules of Procedure
- For the SGS Final Oral Examination: reviews the Doctoral FOE Guidelines
Eligibility Criteria
- Member of the UofT graduate faculty with expertise in the field
- Not affiliated with the student’s research project in any way, nor collaborating with the supervisor or student in the last 6 years on research papers or reviews, and have no other perceived or actual conflict of interest*
- Must not share the same primary academic department as the supervisor
- Primary academic department = the department with which the Faculty member gets their first UofT appointment (IMS is never a primary academic department)
- In the case of larger academic departments such as the Department of Medicine, Surgery or Psychiatry, they cannot share the same Division as the Supervisor
*Conflict of interest is as defined by CIHR
In addition:
- If the supervisor and an examiner appear together on grants then that is a collaboration
- If the supervisor and an examiner appear together on a paper with one of them as first or senior author, then that will be deemed a collaboration
- If, however, the supervisor and an examiner appear together as middle authors on multi-author paper, then the extent of the apparent collaboration needs to be explained
Important Notes
- Any joint publications can easily be searched in PubMed and should be checked carefully by the student and supervisor before submission of the examination package to the IMS