{"id":47,"date":"2018-09-14T16:49:30","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T16:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bme.phd.council.students.jh.edu\/?page_id=47"},"modified":"2018-12-03T18:55:53","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T18:55:53","slug":"dbo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bme.phd.council.students.jh.edu\/?page_id=47","title":{"rendered":"Doctoral Board Oral Exam"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Once students have completed a substantial amount of coursework, they will need to schedule a doctoral board oral examination to receive PhD candidacy by the end of their second year.<\/h3>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">DBO Checklist<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"color: #c9c9c9;\"><strong>Organize the committee<\/strong><\/span>\n<ul>\n<li>5 faculty total, including your PI<\/li>\n<li>Committee should balance mathematical sciences with biological sciences in terms of faculty<\/li>\n<li>Minimum of 2 faculty inside the dept, and 2 faculty outside the dept<\/li>\n<li>2 alternate faculty must be selected, one each from inside\/outside the dept<\/li>\n<li>Tip: conduct a doodle poll to find the optimal time that all faculty can meet.<\/li>\n<li>For specifics, please consult the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bme.jhu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BME-PHD-guidelines.pdf\">official student guidelines<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #c9c9c9;\"><strong>Contact the department<\/strong><\/span>\n<ul>\n<li>Once the DBO committee is finalized and examination time is scheduled, contact our department administrator Hong to fill out the examination request form. The Associate Dean\/Registrar will approve the committee and select the committee chair.<\/li>\n<li>Tip: book a room for the examination as soon as your committee paperwork is submitted, and alert your committee members.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #c9c9c9;\"><strong>Before the exam<\/strong><\/span>\n<ul>\n<li>Give yourself sufficient time to study.<\/li>\n<li>Ask for advice from other students who have taken the exam, especially those who shared the same committee members.<\/li>\n<li>Book a mock DBO to assess your knowledge and get used to the examination format.<\/li>\n<li>Contact faculty for advice about their expectations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once students have completed a substantial amount of coursework, they will need to schedule a doctoral board oral examination to receive PhD candidacy by the end of their second year. DBO Checklist Organize the committee 5 faculty total, including your PI Committee should balance mathematical sciences with biological sciences in terms of faculty Minimum of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bme.phd.council.students.jh.edu\/?page_id=47\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Doctoral Board Oral Exam&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"parent":195,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-47","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bme.phd.council.students.jh.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bme.phd.council.students.jh.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bme.phd.council.students.jh.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bme.phd.council.students.jh.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bme.phd.council.students.jh.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bme.phd.council.students.jh.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333,"href":"https:\/\/bme.phd.council.students.jh.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions\/333"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bme.phd.council.students.jh.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bme.phd.council.students.jh.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}