Capstone Project As part of the Scholarly Reflection and Concentration Capstone course, the capstone project provides medical students with an opportunity to design a personalized curriculum and pursue an area of interest related to clinical medicine. Students learn the techniques of scholarly inquiry through formal course work and gain expertise in a selected concentration by taking two selective courses in Quinnipiac schools, such as the Schools of Business and Engineering, Communication, and Law, starting in the spring of the first year. Examples of medical student selectives include Financial Management in Health Care, Media Production and Community Needs Assessment. Students initiate the capstone project in the spring of their first year and work longitudinally on the project during the second through the fourth year. The students have eight weeks of dedicated curricular time for capstone completion prior to presenting at the Student Research Day in the spring of the fourth year.
HEALTH COMMUNICATIONS Student projects include: • Haiti Health Care Past, Present and Future • Education of Youth Hockey Coaches on Concussion Protocol
HEALTH POLICY AND ADVOCACY Student projects include: • Self-Compassion as an Indicator for Transparency Advocacy in Health Care • Physicians and the Americans with Disabilities Act
HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP
Students may select an area of scholarship from the following concentrations:
Student projects include: • Process Evaluation and Intervention of the Million Hearts Campaign • Use of Telemedicine for Emergency Medical Evaluations
BASIC, TRANSLATIONAL AND CLINICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH
MEDICAL EDUCATION
Student projects include: • The Relationship Between Patient and Family Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices Regarding Home Nebulizer Cleaning and Disinfection Methodologies and the Recovery of Bacteria from Home Nebulizers • A Prospective Observational Review of Patients Undergoing the Novel “TS” Approach to the Hybrid Atrial Fibrillation Ablation Procedure
GLOBAL, PUBLIC AND COMMUNITY HEALTH Student projects include: • The Role of Adverse Childhood Experiences in the Severity of Adult Presentation Diabetes Mellitus Type II • The Prevalence of and Knowledge, Attitudes, and Perceptions Surrounding Tobacco Use in Women of Reproductive Age in New Delhi and Gurgaon, India
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Student projects include: • Interprofessional Management of Chemical Dependence in the Setting of Primary Care • Identifying and Developing the Use of Best Practices in Anatomy Practical Assessment
MEDICAL HUMANITIES Student projects include: • Compassion Fatigue Among Physicians in Critical Care Settings • Putting a Name to a Face: An Updated Methodology and Procedure for the Practical Application of Forensic Facial Reconstruction
SELF-DESIGN Students work with faculty to design a project.
www.quinnipiac.edu/medicine/capstone
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