Earning Criteria

• Students are expected to produce a final report summarizing their hands-on research. Students are required to produce a scholarly work and must apply to present their research at an annual institutional, national or international meeting. Student authored peer-reviewed publication or oral/poster presentation, should be the scholarly work generated by doing research.
• LEARNING OUTCOME: Student will demonstrate understanding of the research process (including, description of project background, hypothesis, gaps in knowledge, research aims, research goals, different scientific methodologies used to answer the research questions, analyses of data, significance of findings). ASSESSMENT: Faculty/mentor assessment of their research project.
• LEARNING OUTCOME: Students will be proficient in presenting research findings to both lay people and their peers. ASSESSMENT: Final project may be a poster, publication or presentation.
• LEARNING OUTCOME: Student will be required to produce a scholarly work and must apply to present their research at an annual institutional, national or international meeting. ASSESSMENT: Final project may be a poster, publication or presentation.
• LEARNING OUTCOME: Student will demonstrate ability to ask appropriate research questions, troubleshoot and provide a list of approaches to address questions experimentally. ASSESSMENT: Faculty assessment and self-reflection. Through MedHub, mentors will evaluate the student’s performance and learning experience.
• DURATION: Minimum time required is 240 hours of effort. This includes research activities the student would undertake that are essential for meaningful and successful completions or their research project including hands-on research as well as participation in departmental, mentor-student meetings or courses. We would expect an average of 40 hours per week (min 6 weeks of continuous research).