DMSC 702 - Doctoral Capstone Project II

Description
The Doctoral Capstone Project (DCP) aims to provide students with an opportunity to engage in a mentored scholarly experience involving a medical, healthcare or community health-related issue that promotes critical thinking and clinician leadership. Students can elect to engage in clinical, basic, or translational research; case study with a comprehensive literature review; meta-analysis; educational, quality improvement, or community-based implementation project. In the process they will practice and apply medical information literacy, lifelong learning, teamwork, effective communication, research methods, evidence-based medicine approaches and ethics related to scholarly inquiry. Each student will participate in the DCP by engaging in independent scholarly activity culminating in a final report (which may include a draft manuscript submitted for publication) and participation (with oral/poster presentation) in a student research symposium at the last term of the DMSc program.    

In this course, students implement the methodological plans laid out in the approved prospectus, collect the required data for their DCP, perform data analyses (as required) and complete the project report. The mentor guides students through project implementation, data collection, data analyses, interpretation of results and construction of the final report (publishable manuscript) and presentation. Student and mentor communicate professionally and meet regularly throughout this period to discuss progress. Throughout this course, the mentor provides feedback and encouragement to the student. The final report is due at the end of the final semester.


Course Delivery Model(s): Online

Lecture Hours: 0
Lab Hours: 0
Total Hours: 45
Credits: 1

Prerequisites: DMSC610, DMSC701
Corequisites: None

Repeatable (# of times): 0

Grade Type: Pass/No Pass