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predoctoral

predoctoral

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Relating to the time before someone gets a doctoral degree
  • adjective
  • /ˌpriːdɒkˈtɔːrəl/
  • Specialized
: predoctoral
  • Many graduate students participate in predoctoral internships to gain valuable research experience before completing their degrees.
  • predoctoral internship
  • Predoctoral fellowship
  • predoctoral program

Examples

  • The fieldwork on which this article is based was supported in part by a Predoctoral Fellowship from the National Science Foundation.

    Academic text (1995)
  • The survey included four major sections: coursework, general information, predoctoral internship information, and postgraduate employment information.

    Academic text (1996)
  • As a result, prospective students in other predoctoral programs and faculty elsewhere have become aware of our training program.

    Academic text (1991)
  • The training activities associated with the predoctoral internship at each agency are considered an integral part of each cooperating faculty member's agency obligation.

    Academic text (1991)
  • With regard to predoctoral internships, respondents indicated the percentage of students accepted to different internship settings.

    Academic text (1996)
  • The vast majority of clinical and counseling interns have their culminating predoctoral training experience in an APA-accredited site.

    Academic text (2000)
  • Research and writing of the dissertation were facilitated by a Predoctoral Fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and a Mary Davis Fellowship from the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts.

    Academic text (1992)
  • Currently, she is a fourth-year fellow in the Institute for Education Sciences Predoctoral Interdisciplinary Research Training (IES-PIRT) program at the NYU Institute of Human Development and Social Change.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Dr. Frogner was trained as a health services researcher at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and received predoctoral training support from a T32 National Institutes of Health training grant.

    Academic text (2018)
  • The research for this article was carried out during a predoctoral fellowship provided by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and I am grateful to the CASVA deans, Elizabeth Cropper, Therese O'Malley, and Peter Lukehart, for this support.

    Academic text (2012)

Surface Forms

predoctoral positive

Morphology

predoctoral = doctoral (semi-transparent) = pre + doctor + al

Given the adjective 'doctoral', adding 'pre-' straightforwardly means 'before the doctoral stage or degree'.

Etymology

Predoctoral comes from the part pre- meaning 'before' and doctor meaning 'teacher' or the top university degree, called a 'doctorate'. So predoctoral means the time or status 'before' someone has a doctoral degree, for example when a student is getting ready for a PhD.