{"id":61249,"date":"2018-10-10T15:23:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T19:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/?page_id=61249"},"modified":"2020-08-09T12:20:53","modified_gmt":"2020-08-09T16:20:53","slug":"faculty-and-research-advisor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/academics\/policies-procedures-handbook\/faculty-and-research-advisor\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty And Research Advisor"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Faculty Advisor<\/h4>\n<p>The faculty advisor plays a central role in guiding the student\u2019s academic program, assisting in course selection, monitoring progress, and providing guidance and counseling in academic matters. Upon entering GMS, each student is assigned a faculty advisor. Students are required to meet regularly with their faculty advisor to discuss their academic progress and course selections.<\/p>\n<h4>Research\/Thesis Advisor<\/h4>\n<p>A candidate for a Ph.D. degree is required to have a research\/dissertation advisor who is a <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/gateway\/facultystaff\/division-of-graduate-medical-sciences-faculty\/\">member<\/a> of GMS Faculty<\/u>. The research advisor is always the first reader of the candidate\u2019s Ph.D. dissertation. A Ph.D. candidate will not be permitted to start his or her dissertation in a laboratory until it has been confirmed that the research advisor is a GMS faculty member.<\/p>\n<p>A candidate enrolled in a M.A. or M.S. degree program requiring completion of a thesis must have a research\/thesis advisor who is a member GMS Faculty. Under certain circumstances, a Special Service Appointment for GMS Faculty membership may be granted to a research advisor who does not have GMS Faculty membership. When a thesis is performed off-campus (i.e., on campuses other than BU, BMC or BUSM), the first reader of the thesis must be a faculty member of BU, BMC or BUMC and have a GMS Faculty membership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faculty Advisor The faculty advisor plays a central role in guiding the student\u2019s academic program, assisting in course selection, monitoring progress, and providing guidance and counseling in academic matters. Upon entering GMS, each student is assigned a faculty advisor. Students are required to meet regularly with their faculty advisor to discuss their academic progress and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2491,"featured_media":0,"parent":53,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2491"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61250,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61249\/revisions\/61250"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}