• Dalhousie University offers a Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing program for a duration of 4 years.
  • It is an on-campus, thesis, and course-based program offered on both a full-time basis.
  • Nursing graduate students at Dalhousie receive a varied education, attending seminars, preparing academic papers, conducting research and, completing clinical practicums. 
  • Supervisors conduct performance and progress reviews quarterly in December, April, and July.
  • Students have to complete the course work in the first 15 months of the program and comprehensive exams are taken in the second year of the program.
  • Within six months of completing comprehensive exams, students must refine and defend their research proposals.
  • Students are expected to commit a minimum of four hours per week on research activities such as grant preparations, ethics applications, and preparation of scholarly presentations.
  • Scholars Seminars are held on a regular basis and students will be scheduled at least once per year to present. Students are required to attend all sessions.
  • Students are required to prepare a minimum of two manuscripts as the first author for submission to scholarly journals during their time in the program.
  • Dalhousie's nursing researchers have earned national and international acclaim, particularly in the following four research areas:
    • Health needs of people
    • Marginalized populations and health equity
    • Health systems and health workforce planning and impact
    • Knowledge translation research
  • ​The average salary of the program goes up to 53,000 USD.