WELCOMERehabilitation Sciences Doctoral

Program

Faculty and Students

Rehabilitation Sciences Doctoral Program

Carl G. Mattacola, PhD, ATC

College of Health Sciences,

University of Kentucky, Lexington

Outline

• Welcome

• NEWS

• General Requirements of RHB PhD Students

NEWS

• Where to Find NEWS

• http://academics.uky.edu/cohs/rhbphd

Curriculum

• Link to web site

• http://www.mc.uky.edu/rehabsciences/

• Pray tell us, what is a Blog?

Useful Resources Page

• http://www.mc.uky.edu/rehabsciences/Useful%20documents.html

NEWS

• Review the Curriculum– Class Participation Time– http://www.mc.uky.edu/rehabsciences/curri

culum.html

NEWS

• Introduce yourself…..mingle, mingle, mingle

• What do we need to support you?

• Fall Colloquium / Orientation

• My decision tree:

• Does it affect the delivery of the program?

• Does it affect the student experiences?

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• My decision tree:

• Does it provide better opportunities for our

students?

• Will it improve the product or affect the product in a negative fashion?

Mission• Graduates of the program will be scholars• and scientists in rehabilitation science, teach• at the university level, direct discipline

specific educational programs, work in rehabilitation services field, and collaborate with other professionals on issues related to rehabilitation and health.

• You will be competent to function independently as a scholar and scientist.

• Take this to all levels of academia or business ----teacher, administrator etc etc.

TO Do’s

• Meet with your advisor Co-Chairs

• Arrange your Committee

• Arrange Student Evaluations

• Arrange and submit Research and Teaching Assistantship Forms to me or Dr. Olson

Annual Evaluation Forms• Complete the Form

• Review assessment with one or both of your faculty advisors.

• Discuss your areas of strength and areas that might need work.

• You should have a copy of that information on the assessment form.

Annual Evaluation Forms•  http://www.mc.uky.edu/rehabsciences/

Useful%20documents.html

– go to form

• Your advisors then discuss this document with the program faculty

• The faculty share their input from the student performance form.

Annual Evaluations from Program Director

• The evaluation will state that you are either making satisfactory or unsatisfactory progress.

• There are several responsibilities we expect annually from students in the doctoral program.

• These include:

• Revise and submit a Program of Study annually.

• Attend the Fall and Spring Colloquiums

Introduce Dr. Anne Olson

• Advise myself or the Director of Graduate Studies if you (will) take a leave of absence from courses or the program

• Update and meet with your Advisors to update the Assessment of Student Performance form

What is DGS?• Conduit between the graduate school

and the local graduate program

• Disseminate info from Grad School

• Communicate with new applicants

• Monitor and verify completion of program requirements (i.e. RA,TA, quals, defense)

Key DGS Responsibilities• Approve forms

– independent study, research and teaching apprenticeship

– Qualifying exams, Defense • Intent: up to 8 weeks before exam • Final: up to 2 weeks before exam

– Important Dates: graduate school websitehttp://www.research.uky.edu/gs/calendar.html

• Complete all Teaching and Research Apprenticeship forms and assure that the documentation is complete before the first third of the semester has passed

• Complete all Independent Study forms and assure that the documentation is complete before the first third of the semester has passed… Fall semester October 1

Key DGS Responsibilities

• Share info about fundinghttp://www.gradschool.uky.edu/StudentFunding/funding.html

• Facilitate • extensions, readmissions, leave of absence

• Highlight Student Development Resources

http://www.gradschool.uky.edu/

Teaching Apprenticeship

Individually designed based on student’s past teaching experience. Suggest taking this in two semesters. Students will have to demonstrate broad based competences in pedagogy.

Teaching Apprenticeship

You are responsible for completing the TA form signed for your file to the DGS

Must be turned in by the end of the 1/3 of the semester in which you are enrolled

Research Apprenticeship

Individually designed experience based on the student’s past research experience. Suggest taking this in several semesters. Students will have to demonstrate broad based competences in research design and methodologies.

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Research Apprenticeship

You are responsible for completing the RA form signed for your file to the DGS

Must be turned in by the end of the 1/3 of the semester in which you are enrolled

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• Verify that the documentation above has been delivered to our office.

• While it has not been enforced in the past, students are to enroll in RHB 770 for two semesters for credit and are required to participate in subsequent seminars for zero credits. This is an expectation that faculty have raised on several occasions and is being included in this evaluation.

 

University Requirements for a Degree of Doctor of Philosophy

“The degree of Doctor of Philosophy is conferred upon a candidate who, after completing graduate work devoted to study of a special field of knowledge,

 1)     passes comprehensive examinations in the chosen field and the dissertation subject,

2)     presents a satisfactory dissertation, and3) shows evidence of scholarly attainment.”

(University of Kentucky, The Graduate School, Bulletin, Fall 2006, http://www.research.uky.edu/gs/bulletin/

current/AdvancedDegrees.shtml) 

Research Apprenticeship

Three different research apprenticeships are required (9 credits minimum, need not be 3 credits each) -One outside the student’s discipline-One with one of the student’s committee chairs

Time to Qualifying Examination

• Graduate School Council has voted to limit time to Qualifying Examination to 5 years for students starting Fall 2005 & after:– One year extension may be obtained from

the Dean of the Graduate School (this should be easy to obtain, but anything more than one year will be very difficult)

Qualifying Examination

The student’s Advisory Committee, following program faculty recommendations, will develop the examination. Will include closed book in-house section, open book off campus section and oral defense.

Dissertation

Students entering after Fall 2005 enroll in a 2 credit hour RHB 767 Dissertation Residency Credit every fall and spring semester until they have completed and defended their dissertation.

Student has 5 years, following the semester of successful completion of the comprehensive examination, to complete all degree requirements.

Advisory Committee 

Establish committee as soon as possible, but no later than after 18 credits have been taken

The Advisory Committee must consist of:

 a)  co-chairs: one must have full UK Graduate Faculty status & one, but not both, should be in your discipline (this is a program requirement to reflect our interdisciplinary nature and is not a university requirement)

b)   1-2 other members from within the program having UK Graduate Faculty status

Who are our Graduate Faculty????

https://www.research.uky.edu/cfdocs/gs/dgsgradfac/

c) one additional person from outside the UK College of Health Sciences (i.e., not a RHB Faculty Graduate School Member) with UK Graduate Faculty status

-If 3 of the previous faculty do not have full Graduate Faculty Status, then this faculty member must have full status

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Three members, including one co-chair, must possess full Graduate Faculty status.

The majority of Advisory Committees will have 5 or 6 members, although there is the possibility a few committees might have the minimum 4 members.

• 2 Co-Chairs – one member outside of discipline– one Co-Chair has to have full graduate faculty

status

• 1-2 faculty members from within RHB Sci PhD, with full Graduate faculty status

• 1 person from outside RHB Sci PhDThree members, including one co-chair, must possess full Graduate Faculty status.

• Minimum of 4 faculty members

General Reminders

• You are expected to come to campus once a semester

• Each Semester Update your Program of Study

General Reminders

• Grades:• Incompletes are common in doctoral work,

i.e, Independent studies and Research Apprenticeships

• YOU are RESPONSIBLE for working/reminding/bugging your mentor to process the grade

General Reminders

• How do you do that?Ask your advisor to forward me an e-mail with

the following:• Name of Student:• Grade• Course Number and section #

– RHB 770 Section 001

• Semester

General Reminders

• You must complete an evaluation form each year

• Talk through the evaluation form with your advisor(s)

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General Reminders

• Take into consideration what you want to accomplish, what academic sources are going to strengthen your needs as doctoral student

General Reminders

• What do you need to do to create your research experiences and develop your research experiences? What are you going to study? What do you need to know and do (technically) to get to that point?

General Reminders

• You need to schedule a committee meeting with your Advisory committee before you complete 18 hours.

• When you are approved to schedule an oral comprehensive examination, you need to process this via The Graduate School Page (Ask DGS to clarify)

General Reminders

• After you have completed the research seminar and if you are in the candidate phase of your experience you MUST enroll in RHB 770 Research Seminar in the spring semesters for zero credits.

• You need to schedule a research apprenticeship outside of your area of concentration.

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General Reminders

• You should be familiar with The Graduate Bulletin.

• http://www.research.uky.edu/gs/CurrentStudents/bulletin.html

General Reminders

• Yearly Evaluation of Doctoral Students

General Reminders

• Curriculum Vitae– Identification and tracking of student

productivity to be done in the spring via a web survey

General Reminders

• Student Evaluation form

• http://www.mc.uky.edu/rehabsciences/Useful%20documents.html

Outline

• Review goals and research agenda– Importance of establishing personal goals

each year– Importance of being able to establish

where you would like your career to go– Share my list of RHB goals

Thank You