Fall Semester
- Students who did not complete intensive coursework in Phase I or II should schedule up to two research electives. Each elective is four weeks in length and are IDPT 8091 and IDPT 8093. Each course should only be taken once beginning with IDPT 8091.
- Work on project between (See syllabus).
- Meet with mentor regularly
- Submit the rough draft of your paper
Spring Semester
- Submit a 10-25 page Final Paper or Published Paper. Incorporate feedback from draft paper from your MSA Director or Associate Director
- Deliver Capstone Presentation and participate as a peer evaluator.
Phase IV Assignment Resources
Paper - The paper will describe your project in detail as outlined below. An accepted or published paper in a peer reviewed journal will satisfy the paper requirement, regardless of page limit, number of references, or authorship order. An unpublished paper will be 10 to 25 pages in length, depending on your thematic area. Projects that use a critical analysis methodology (like in the Humanities) may be longer. Draft and final paper will be double spaced, typed in 12 pt Arial font and have 1 inch margins. Most papers will include the following components: cover page (title of paper, your name, mentor’s name – Please make a cover page even if you are submitting a peer-reviewed published paper), abstract, introduction, methods, results, limitations, conclusions, references (minimum of 20), and acknowledgements. If you are not the first author of the published paper or your project included work by another student, you must include a brief statement in which you explain your contribution to the project. The abstract should be an approximately 250 word summary of your paper that includes the 1) title 2) background and objectives 3) methodology 4) results and 5) conclusions.
For Contributorship: according to the guidelines of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), authorship credit should be based on the following 4 criteria:
- substantial contributions to conception or design of the work, or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; and
- drafting of the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and
- final approval of the version to be published; and
- agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.
International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. Recommendations for the conduct, reporting, editing, and publication of scholarly work in medical journals.
Final Project:
- Paper summary - 10-25 pages depending on thematic area or a paper published in a peer reviewed journal.
- Poster - For most projects, the poster will summarize the paper. For projects on the Arts, the poster will include a brief description on the project dates and location of presentation.
- Presentation - For most projects, the presentation is of the poster, including a brief project summary and Q & A. For projects on the Arts, the presentation could be an exhibit or performance with a summary and Q & A.
Phase IV Research Electives
Main Content: IDPT 8091 and IDPT 8093 are each 4 week elective courses Phase IV students can take any month throughout their 4th year. These courses are intended to be a time to focus on completing the draft/final paper or prepare for the Capstone presentation.
- Students work intensively with mentors on their chosen MSA Project.
- Students critically review background literature, define a question/hypothesis, develop and implement methods and study design, collect data, analyze and interpret data, and submit written progress reports for their MSA Project.
How to sign up for an elective
- Register for the elective through Oasis.
- Both electives do require director approval, so you will be placed on a waitlist initially until your form has been reviewed.
- IDPT 8091 is a pre-requisite for IDPT 8093, so you will not be able to register for IDPT 8093 until you have been added to IDPT 8091.
- You also must contact your mentor about enrolling in the elective and upload the mentor approval (an email with the section dates is sufficient) within Oasis using the form for the course.