The first year students must present a research protocol performed by their director and tutor of the masters research program. This protocol can be a new project, a continuous previous study or a non-initiated third year student project (see below). All the protocols of the research project are presented to the responsible for the endodontics masters research before November of the first year. This written research protocol includes a brief literature review, rationale and experimental outline (see document X1 or appendix). The protocol is evaluated by the responsible of the endodontic research and the program director and corrections are sent to the main investigator, tutor and student when considered necessary. Once the protocol is considered adequate it is presented to the commission of evaluation of the masters research projects of the University. Once approval of this commission is granted, a letter of approval is sent to the investigators via administration service. University Ethics Committee approval is required before starting any investigation study following to different paths if it is a laboratory (Research ethics committee or CER) or a clinical study (Clinical ethics investigation committee or CEIC).

It is expected that all the students submit to the annual national endodontic association (AEDE) meeting or biannual European Endodontic congress (ESE) their preliminary research findings for presentation in the form of oral or poster communication as considered adequate by the program director.

Results and the final draft of this research project must be presented in the June 15th (Exact data is determined every year according to calendar). The quality of the final research should be good enough for submission for publication in respected dental journals, such as the IEJ, JOE or national journals. Thus a paper corresponding to the final draft data must be submitted to the considered more appropriate paper of the JCR list.