Departmental Assessment Update - Medicine Report
Department: Biomedical
Program: MS/PhD
Level: Graduate
1. List in detail your graduate Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) for each degree/certificate offered.
Masters in Clinical Research The Academic Program PhDCR Program Masters of Science in Clinical Research Objectives Research: Develop and implement ethically and culturally appropriate clinical research that addresses health disparities in Asian, Pacific Islander, and Filipino populations. Conduct clinical research with cultural competence. Analyze and synthesize literature toliterature to ascertain state of the science in regard to selected areas of clinical research, especially health disparities in Asian, Pacific Islander, and Filipino peoples. Use the Internet to access clinical research information. Apply appropriate research methodologies to answer clinical research questions. Demonstrate successful scientific writing skills by producing scholarly works and writing an approved clinical research proposal. Make correct inferences from data. Apply clinical research findings by implementing and monitoring an action plan based on relevant data. Professionalism/ethics: Conduct ethically responsible and culturally competent clinical research Demonstrate knowledge of laws, regulations, and policies related to clinical research on the development and implementation of protocols. Apply ethical principles in the design and conduct of clinical research, especially with disadvantaged and underserved populations. Culturally competent leadership and communication: Establish community- based research networks in selected area of clinical research interest Communicate in a culturally competent manner with persons from diverse cultural, socioeconomic, educational, and professional backgrounds and with persons of all ages and lifestyle preferences. Communicate effectively in writing and voicing demographic, statistical, and scientific information for professional and lay audiences. Interdisciplinary collaboration: Work collaboratively, interdependently and effectively with other members of the clinical research team Manage clinical research project, including budget. Recruit and supervise necessary staff for clinical research project. Demonstrate the ability to manage research team task assignments. Demonstrate good interpersonal skills, including the ability to work interdependently with other clinical research team members. Self-directed learning: Demonstrate the skills for self-directed learning Be able to obtain appropriate feedback, consultation, and/or review before, during, and after a research project. Conceptualize and synthesize the state of the science related to selected clinical research questions.
2. Where are these SLOs published (e.g., departmental web page)?
Web Page http://www2.hawaii.edu/%7Emscr/phdobjectives.htm
3. Explain how your SLOs map onto your curriculum, i.e., how does your program of graduate studies produce the specific SLOs in your students?
Adult learning theory and problem-based learning will be used to ensure that graduates develop the skills to become self-directed learners. The five competency domains include research, professionalism/ethics, culturally competent leadership and communication, interdisciplinary collaboration, and self-directed learning. Students complete courses, address case studies and conduct research projects Research: Complete thesis /dissertation or both Professionalism/ethics: Submit paper for publication, receive IRB approval for projects involving human subjects Culturally Competent leadership adn communication: Achieve role o leader in the professsional community (achieve appointment at the regional or national level), submit ms for publication Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Serve as a member of a multidisciplinary research team Self Directed LEarning: Sucessfuly learn within a PBL curriculum
4. What population(s) is covered by your assessment(s)?
Students in MS and PhD in Biomedial Science(Clinical Resear4ch) curriculum
5. Please list/describe all the assessment events and devices used to monitor graduate student progress through the program. Consider the following questions:
Publication of referred papers Acceptance of referred posters for presentations Appointment to Regional and National Committees Submission and funding of grants Receipt of IRB approvals Defense of theses/dissertation
6. Please list/describe how your graduate students contribute to your discipline/academic area? Consider the following questions:
Lists are provided to the NIH each year of the students publications, presentations and appointments 100% of the students have made a contribution at one of these levels. Our program is the most prolific in scholarship of all the NCRR funded programs.
7. What attempts are made to monitor student post-graduate professional activities?
We have jsut had our first MS graduated. All completed within 2 years. We will follow them forward. We will have our first PhD graduate in August. We will also follow these graduates.
8. How were the assessment data/results used to inform decisions concerning the curriculum and administration of the program?
All curriculum decisions are based on evaluation Students evaluate themselves, the instructor, the courses and the program. These data are complied and presented to the External Advisory committee each year as the basis for curricular decisions Faculty evaluate the student, courses, and the curriculum. They participate on a curriculum committee and make data based decisions. The EAC makes recommendations for administrative change. A progress report is also submitted to the NIH as all these programs are funded.