LMP 2330Y: Capstone Project in Translational Research
Credit: 2.0 FCE
This core course runs September in your second year until your project is completed.
Capstone Project in Translational Research is a vehicle for learning to integrate knowledge and an opportunity to demonstrate new skills and competencies that are core-learning outcomes for the Masters in Health Science in Translational Research.
This is an Experiential Learning course where you will be guided in the development of your own project ideas and supported by the TRP teaching team and a committee of external advisors.
The project course provides opportunities to network and develop professional contacts through student-initiated activities such as interviews, engaging contacts as mentors, and committee members and collaborators. Through capstone projects you gain skills and competencies to navigate ambiguity and deal with setbacks in real-world contexts.
Translation spans a wide range of practices, from discovery science and clinical investigation to knowledge translation, commercialization and implementation, you may focus on a range of activities along the translational pathway.
The projects must be novel, collaborative, focus on a specific unmet health science need, allow you opportunities to demonstrate program competencies, and may contribute to:
- Practice
- Research (or scholarship)
- Implementation
- Leadership in translational research or practice
Learning outcomes
In order to successfully complete this course, you must demonstrate the following competencies:
- Adaptability: open-mindedness, to be open to new initiatives, ability to navigate ambiguity and uncertainty.
- Problem solving: ability to discover, identify, and assess problems, ability to pivot.
- Critical thinking: ability to locate, assess, organize, analyze, and synthesize information.
- Effective communication: ability to listen, ask pertinent questions, ask for and accept feedback, and communicate ideas clearly and effectively.
- Initiative: ability to assess and take initiative independently, to champion new ideas, shows resourcefulness and effort.
- Leadership: ability to provide direction, encourage others, implement and monitor the plan of action, plan and manage time and resources.
- Continuous learning: ability to learn from experiences, to identify personal strengths and areas for growth, to identify learning opportunities.
- Managing and resolving conflicts: capacity to negotiate effectively to resolve conflicts.
- Assessing and managing risk: ability to establish, implement, and monitor progress and contingencies and to moderate uncertainty.
- Integrity: demonstrates honesty, integrity, personal and professional ethics, accountability, and social responsibility.
- Relationship management: ability to establish and maintain professional networks, shows respect for others and alternative points of view.
- Team collaboration: accepts and provides feedback, shares information, work, and expertise, and contributes actively and effectively.
Instructor
Enrollment
These are the mandatory classes you must take to complete the program.
You will automatically be enrolled in these courses and they will be preloaded to your ACORN (U of T’s learning system) before the given semester.