When I did my Bachelor I was introduced to EndNote and got as well the program from the institute. Nonetheless, my supervisor at that time told me that he wouldnt recommend to use it.... A PhD Student of him at the problem that more or less making the final version of the PhD thesis, Endnote mixed up something quite badly and it stayed wrong in the final version :( Thus, he told me that he simply has a word document where he has all the references stored and if he needs a reference he is simply copying it from there....




Is anybody of you familiar with both, Endnote and RefWorks, and could give the advantages and disadvantages of the two programs (in case that I ever decide to go for one of those)?
I remember that when I made a try with Endnote quite some of my references I couldnt find via Endnote and had to type them in manually :(

I agree with Ejc: Get in contact with potential supervisors. Maybe they currently dont have a project advertised but could possibly see opportunities and know where to apply for funding. I see so many funded PhDs in the area of medicine and I believe that as well cancer research gets a lot of funding from organisations dealing with cancer (let it be charities or industry or other funding bodies).

Once I had a similar problem and found this explanation on the webpage of the journal corresponding to the paper I wanted to cite:

How do I cite papers that appear in Advance Access?
Papers published in Advance Access are citeable using the DOI and publication date. An example of an Advance Access citation is given below:
Gilad, Y. and Lancet, D. Population Differences in the Human Functional Olfactory Repertoire. Mol. Biol. Evol. Advance Access published March 5, 2003, doi:10.1093/molbev/msg013

The same paper in its final form would be cited:
Gilad, Y. and Lancet, D. Population Differences in the Human Functional Olfactory Repertoire. Mol Biol Evol 2003; 20: 307-314. First published March 5, 2003, doi:10.1093/molbev/msg013

Googling in German I came across this webpage:

http://www.doktorandenboerse.info

If you search in DR Arbeit Suchen for Medizin and the keywords oncology/Onkologie or cancer/Krebs you get quite some hits in Germany (not all of them for PhD and not all of them possibly up to date) but if you are interested in a topic described there (all in German ;-) ) maybe just have a look on the current webpage of that institute as possibly they have other opportunities in the meanwhile displayed on their own page or contact them and ask.

I would say that in Germany it is not requirement to study a PhD in German, at least not in your area. The publications are anyway in English and quite some German students as well write the thesis in English. Nevertheless, it might be advantageous to know German, but mainly for the daily life outside the PhD work.

Hi,
not sure which university in Munich you are speaking about and possibly not exaclty what you were looking for: I did my master at the Technical University of Munich. Thus if you think I might be able to help you with something, give me a shout.