Below are research projects looking for participants.
Capstone Mentor for a PT school in Haiti
October 2024
For a variety of reasons, including the chaotic situation in Haiti, we have a backlog of students who have finished their courses and clinicals but have not finished their final research projects. Happily, an excellent OTD student from Duke University, Gloria Cesar, is doing her capstone project with FSRL to help them get over the finish line. She is matching up the students with volunteer mentors.
We need PT mentors now for the PT students in this group: 34 students! Here’s what you would be committing to:
- Between now (mid-october) and the end of November (six weeks) you would communicate by email (using Google Translate for incoming and for outgoing messages) with one student.
- The student would send you a completed chapter of their research, called a “memoire” to read.
- You would give feedback: is this going in the right direction, from a PT point of view? If not, how could it be modified? There would most likely be four such chapters to read and comment on.
The students have a Haitian mentor for formatting and for the grammar of French. What they really need is a PT perspective on the therapy content of their research.
If interested, please reach out to Gloria
Study on belongingness in the classroom among Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) students
October 2024
We are requesting your assistance with a study on belongingness in the classroom among Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) students. This research is being conducted by researchers in the field of physical therapy at Duke University, Thomas Jefferson University, Northwestern University, Harrisburg University, Johns Hopkins University, and Quinnipiac University. One of the objectives of this study is to develop and validate an adapted questionnaire that measures belongingness in the DPT classroom environment. We are also interested in measuring and comparing the extent to which DPT students experience belongingness related to demographics including academic setting, region, and sociocultural identities.
