of or pertaining to academic work or research undertaken prior to or in preparation for receiving a doctorate
2.
(of a person) undertaking predoctoral work
Examples of 'predoctoral' in a sentence
predoctoral
Patients received primary endodontic treatment in the predoctoral dental clinic using a standardized cleaning and shaping protocol.
Robert Hale, Robert Gatti, Gerald N. Glickman, Lynne A. Opperman 2012, 'Comparative Analysis of Carrier-Based Obturation and Lateral Compaction: A RetrospectiveClinical Outcomes Study', International Journal of Dentistryhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/954675. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)