Doctor Medicinae (Danish and Norwegian degree)

It is regarded as a higher doctorate and officially ranks above the Danish PhD degree.

degree is awarded in acknowledgement of substantial scientific insight and maturity of the author and it is a requirement that the dissertation, as a rule consisting of several articles published in high-impact journals, has advanced science substantially.

degree is seldom obtained before the age of 40, and is normally conferred upon experienced consultants and scientists after about a decade of research.

degree as "a higher doctorate [...] awarded for published work that, in the opinion of the examiners constitutes a distinguished contribution to knowledge or creative achievement and is recognized by scholars in the relevant field as constituting a distinguished contribution to knowledge or creative achievement in that filed.

The DMedSc, unlike the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), is not a research training degree.

It may be described as an award that one would receive when one's career is well established, rather than at the beginning, for an outstanding contribution to knowledge through a substantial body of research.

Non-physicians who submitted dissertations to faculties of medicine were awarded the doctor of philosophy (dr.philos.)

degree is traditionally only awarded to physicians, and non-physicians who wrote dissertations in biomedical research fields or other topics relevant to medicine were traditionally awarded the doctorate of philosophy (Dr.

degree is considered equivalent to the Habilitation in Germany, and also gives the same formal rights at the universities as a Habilitation, for example the right to supervise PhDs and the eligibility to become associate professor or professor (a Dr.Med.

is seldom obtained in less than 5–8 years of research activity after graduation as a medical doctor, and those receiving a Dr.med.

According to the Danish Agency for International Education, "mature researchers may obtain the traditional higher Danish doctoral degree (doktorgrad), usually after a minimum of 5–8 years of individual and original research (following a candidatus degree, a mag.art.