Physical Therapy Doctoral Seminar

Each semester, the doctoral seminar course is required for learners enrolled in the Doctor of Education program in Movement Science (Physical Therapy). The Physical Therapy Doctoral Seminar includes presentations by invited speakers, doctoral students, and faculty members.   The course will facilitate the development of the learners’ dissertation research ideas and skills. Learners will lead discussions and presentations on their dissertation research topics, attend presentations of other learners’ work, and participate in discussions of the presented research.  Invited speakers will describe current or past research, identify challenges involved in their work, and highlight research conceptualization, approaches, methods, and data analysis.  Guest speakers will review the research arc in various physical therapy research areas in the US and internationally and discuss grant funding plans to support research programs.   The course will examine the importance of the multiple scholarly research formats (platform and poster presentations, the doctoral preparation of the proposal, and thesis presentation).