DMSC 8300 - Capstone I

3 credit hours

This is the first of a three-course series designed to guide each student through the process of developing and conducting a Capstone project. The project must be of sufficient scholarly effort to satisfy the expectation of rigorous, professional, doctoral level work equivalent to original research. The capstone project will be designed to target a problem in either clinical practice, the PA professional sphere, or PA education. During the capstone course sequence, each student will work closely with their facilitator as they progress from conceptualization to completion of the research or scholarly capstone project. In Capstone I, each student will apply methods from the Research Methods in Healthcare course to identify a topic of interest, develop a proposal, and conduct a narrative literature review to demonstrate mastery of their project topic.