• Systematic understanding of a field of study and mastery of research skills and methods related to that field.

• Ability to conceive, design or create, implement and adopt a substantial research or creative process.

• Ability to contribute to the expansion of the frontiers of knowledge through original research.

• Ability to critically analyse, evaluate and synthesise new and complex ideas.

• Ability to communicate with the academic and scientific community and with society in general about their fields of knowledge in the modes and languages commonly used in their international scientific community.

• Ability to promote, in academic and professional contexts, scientific, technological, social, artistic or cultural progress within a society based on knowledge.

Doctors will acquire the following personal skills and abilities:

• Dealing with contexts in which there is little specific information.

• Find the key questions that need to be answered to solve a complex problem.

• Design, create, develop and undertake novel and innovative projects in their field of knowledge.

• Work both in a team and autonomously in an international context or multidisciplinary.

• Integrate knowledge, deal with complexity and make judgements with limited information.

• Intellectual critique and defence of solutions.

• To develop research taking care of all its ethical aspects, both the specific scientific ones and those that guarantee an effective service to society.

• development of the ability to evaluate projects of research, development, patents, research professor etc. within its area of specialization.