{"id":3834,"date":"2017-06-19T13:19:40","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T12:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/?p=3834"},"modified":"2017-06-19T13:19:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T12:19:40","slug":"thesis-examination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/thesis-examination\/","title":{"rendered":"Thesis examination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3837 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/med.st-andrews.ac.uk\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2017\/06\/DCIM_0236-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" \/>A significant doctoral thesis in the field of fears of cancer recurrence was awarded in Radboud University, Nijmegen on Monday 16th June 2017.\u00a0 The candidate &#8211; Marieke van de Wal was questioned in public session by 7 opponents including the international examiner Prof Gerry Humphris.\u00a0 Her performance was exemplary and she fully deserved her doctorate which included: a cross-sectional survey, a case presentation, and a major RCT known as SWORD to test a psychological intervention to reduce recurrence fears.\u00a0 The pictures show the formality of Radboud&#8217;s ceremony, the candidate following the exam process at the cake and coffee celebration and a front cover photo of the thesis &#8216;book&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3836\" src=\"http:\/\/med.st-andrews.ac.uk\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2017\/06\/thesis-title1-K1024-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3838\" src=\"http:\/\/med.st-andrews.ac.uk\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2017\/06\/DCIM_0295-1-300x178.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3839\" src=\"http:\/\/med.st-andrews.ac.uk\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2017\/06\/DCIM_0255-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3840\" src=\"http:\/\/med.st-andrews.ac.uk\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2017\/06\/DCIM_0285-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3841\" src=\"http:\/\/med.st-andrews.ac.uk\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2017\/06\/DCIM_0233-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A significant doctoral thesis in the field of fears of cancer recurrence was awarded in Radboud University, Nijmegen on Monday 16th June 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":3835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[172,908,949],"class_list":["post-3834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorised","tag-cancer-recurrence","tag-prof-gerry-humphris","tag-radboud-university"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-25 23:50:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}