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This article describes the development and structure of the courses and educational activities that are part of doctoral supervision education at Karolinska Institutet , Stockholm, Sweden, and evaluates the participants’ attitudes to these. Before doing that, the author sets doctoral supervision education within a local but also a larger context in order to better understand the current shift on the requirement of supervision skills occurred during the last decade.
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Masiello, I. (2014). Doctoral Supervision Education at Karolinska Institutet. In: von Bülow, I. (eds) Nachwuchsförderung in der Wissenschaft. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41257-8_12
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