Research Didactics

Curriculum

The YSM research requirement ensures that students learn fundamental skills, such as how to identify knowledge gaps, formulate questions, design and execute an investigative approach, analyze data, summarize results, and present one’s work to communities of interest. An important feature of the YSM research curriculum is the formal instruction students receive to successfully launch them on the path of acquiring and practicing these essential skills.

First-Year

• Fall through Spring of first year: Scientific Inquiry

• This course includes learning objectives and requires submission of a research proposal as its final assessment.

Summer

• Applied Principles of Research (APR)

• This summer series focuses on scientific communication. It includes weekly, in-person "research-in-progress (RIP)" sessions.

• All students who receive a summer research stipend are required to present at one in-person RIP session.

Resources

• SlicerDicer SlicerDicer Workshop

• The Fundamentals of Qualitative Research Methods Series