DMSC 701 - Doctoral Capstone Project I

Description
Doctoral Capstone Project I is the second installment of the three courses that comprise the Research, Scholarship, and Doctoral Capstone Project series. The Doctoral Capstone Project (DCP) provides 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. The DCP process allows students to 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 participates 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 final term of the DMSc program.

Course Delivery Model(s): Online

Lecture Hours: 15
Lab Hours: 0
Total Hours: 15
Credits: 1

Prerequisites: DMSC610
Corequisites: None

Repeatable (# of times): 0

Grade Type: Pass/No Pass