Individual Study
Students in the Online Master’s Degree Program at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center may complete an Individual Study to fulfill their elective requirement. An Individual Study is a project undertaken with guidance by the student’s faculty advisor. Options for the Individual Study include:
- Exploration of an educational topic not covered in the program.
- A small educational research project
- A small curriculum development project
To complete an Individual Study, the student must register for the Individual Study course and complete the Individual Study Agreement form with their advisor. The I.S. Agreement form must provide adequate detail regarding what the student will do and how he or she will do it, and what the advisor will do. Both the student and advisor must approve the Agreement, and it must be sent to the program office by no later than the second week of the quarter.
If the project is not completed by the end of the quarter, the student will receive an Incomplete (grade of I) and will have no more than one year to complete the project. The amount of time allowed to complete the project must be agreed upon by the student and advisor, and may be less than one year. If the project is not completed and graded by the end of one year, the Incomplete (I) will automatically turn into a Failure (I/F) and the student must repeat the elective requirement by conducting a new Individual Study or registering for the Medical Informatics class.
It is the responsibility of the advisor and the student to let the program office know when the project has been completed and what the final grade is. All grade changes must be submitted by Kadriye Lewis, EdD.
- Individual Study Agreement form: Word document | .pdf
- Sample Completed Individual Study Agreement form: .pdf
Individual Study projects
The following list is a sampling of the project topics undertaken by students.
- The use of simulation to teach leadership skills to pediatric fellows: evaluation tools validation
- Qualitative identification of resident cognitive errors in the PICU
- Curriculum redesign in UC Internal Medicine residency program
- Learning on-line using WIKI technology: a pilot study in a pediatric clerkship
- Professional communication in healthcare
- Primary care training grant implementation and documentation
- Development of a tool to assess factors that contribute to parental involvement with child drug prevention programs
- Perceptions of recently graduated general pediatricians about their ability to manage various gastrointestinal disorders
- Explore e-assessment techniques and how to implement them into the educational environment
- Residents as teachers curriculum
