Points of credit to be approved by the department. Requires submission of an outline of the proposed research for approval by the faculty member who is to supervise the work of the student. The research facilities of the department are available to qualified students interested in advanced study.
MA Film & Media Studies students register for this class in their thesis semester to maintain full-time enrollment.
Open only to graduate students in the basic medical science departments. Prerequisite: course director’s permission. Current research in pathology and pathobiology. Conferences and invited speakers. Assigned readings.
Prerequisites: high-quality work in the previous term. Arrangements must be made with the director of graduate studies. Tutorial work in specialized research topics.
This two-semester course aims to help our students acquire the foundational skills for a
successful and satisfying professional life. The course will consist of three themes:
1) Discussing greatest hits and frontiers in the field
2) The research process, using the projects that participating students are currently
working on.
3) Navigating science and careers: considering the people and institutions that make up the
field, the frameworks in place that support them and the culture that pervades them;
career pathways
The cardiopulmonary topics program is designed to offer a more comprehensive view of individuals with both cardiac and pulmonary issues. The majority of patients seen will have a history of chronic disease however those with acute processes will also be included. The goal of this course is to provide you, the student, with the opportunity to expand the breadth and depth of your cardiopulmonary knowledge. A variety of clinical practice settings will be offered to you, not limited to physical therapy. Understanding the team approach to patient diagnosis and management as well as gaining patient perspective is key to gaining a more advanced understanding of cardiac and pulmonary processes. This course will primarily include clinical observations. The majority of opportunities will be outpatient however some inpatient care will be offered.
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Students are required to carry out independent research under the direction of a faculty member of the Doctoral Subcommittee on Nutrition.
Internships are an integral part of the student experience at SIPA. Students in most of the MPA and MIA degree programs are required to register for and conduct an internship as part of their academic coursework. Still, all students are encouraged to explore internships as part of their education and career development. Students can register for a maximum of three internship credits toward their degree. Students who wish to earn internship credit for non-research internships will register for
SIPA U9013
in the fall or spring semesters. Note: SIPA does not permit registration for internship credit during the summer term. Students completing their internship during the summer months and wishing to earn academic credit must register in the preceding Spring semester. Students may register for 0-points, 1.5-points (minimum of 120 internship hours), or 3-points (minimum of 240 internship hours) internship credits.
Internships are an integral part of the student experience at SIPA. Students in most of the MPA and MIA degree programs are required to register for and conduct an internship as part of their academic coursework. Still, all students are encouraged to explore internships as part of their education and career development. Students can register for a maximum of three internship credits toward their degree. Students who wish to earn internship credit for non-research internships will register for
SIPA U9013
in the fall or spring semesters. Note: SIPA does not permit registration for internship credit during the summer term. Students completing their internship during the summer months and wishing to earn academic credit must register in the preceding Spring semester. Students may register for 0-points, 1.5-points (minimum of 120 internship hours), or 3-points (minimum of 240 internship hours) internship credits.
Internships are an integral part of the student experience at SIPA. Students in most of the MPA and MIA degree programs are required to register for and conduct an internship as part of their academic coursework. Still, all students are encouraged to explore internships as part of their education and career development. Students can register for a maximum of three internship credits toward their degree. Students who wish to earn internship credit for non-research internships will register for
SIPA U9013
in the fall or spring semesters. Note: SIPA does not permit registration for internship credit during the summer term. Students completing their internship during the summer months and wishing to earn academic credit must register in the preceding Spring semester. Students may register for 0-points, 1.5-points (minimum of 120 internship hours), or 3-points (minimum of 240 internship hours) internship credits.
Students who want to build on the content from the required Orthopedic courses, may elect this course during the last semester of the DPT curriculum. This 15-week course in the 6th term of the DPT curriculum explores advanced topics and skills in orthopedic physical therapy that will provide the student with beyond entry- level skills and prepare them for clinical challenges ahead.
This course is firmly rooted in the evidence-base and encourages questioning of clinical and research assumptions in the exploration of advanced topics and skills in the area of orthopedic physical therapy combined with experience in the orthopedic clinics at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Students will take part in interactive discussion of current research related to the application of advanced skills including osteopathic techniques learned and practiced in class. Students will also have the opportunity to customize the content of the course by selecting an area of particular interest to present and teach. Previous course work emphasizing kinesiology, biomechanics, therapeutic exercise, and orthopedics will be integrated with emerging evidence and advanced techniques in the examination, evaluation, intervention, and prognosis of a variety of orthopedic conditions.
Columbia faculty and guest speakers present research related to Labor and Public Economics.
This course is devoted to examining and understanding the limits of what we know about how networks shape decision-making. There is no field of networks and decision-making as such. But many network studies implicitly or explicitly examine how or why people make network-related decisions. And for many questions in inequality, management, health, labor, gender, and countless other topics, either a network perspective that takes decisions into account or a decision-making perspective that considers people’s embeddedness in networks would prove valuable. We will examine research in not only sociology and organizations but also economics, psychology, and anthropology. We will study experimental, survey-based, interview-based, and ethnographic work. We will examine the theoretical, epistemological, and methodological assumptions behind the readings, and explore where the figurative envelope can be pushed conceptually or empirically. Though we will cover some technical issues, this is not a course on either network methods or choice modeling. Our focus is ideas.
The course assumes basic training in social science methods at the graduate level in sociology, economics, psychology, or a related discipline, and some familiarity with network analysis. It does not require formal training in network methods. The course is ultimately experimental in nature. You will be encouraged to think creatively, to experiment with ideas and methods, and to push your work beyond the comfort zones of traditional disciplinary thinking. Upon completion of the course, you will be able to assess cutting edge research on networks and decision-making critically, and produce a research paper on the topic addressing questions not yet answered in the literature.
Students who want to build on the content from the required Adult Neurorehabilitation courses may elect this course during the last semester of the DPT curriculum. Students are exposed to a variety of clients in different settings and allowed to further develop their clinical reasoning skills, hone their evidence-based examination and therapeutic interventions and verify the psychosocial & socioeconomic impact of disability.
This is a problem-solving case-based course that promotes synthesis of evidence from the neurological and movement science literature in order to critically evaluate current trends in the examination, evaluation, diagnosis, intervention and prognosis of a variety of neurological conditions. Clinical reasoning is promoted through three pathways: 1) observation and participation in a variety of health care practice settings (e.g. hospitals, outpatient & clinic departments); 2) understanding societal needs; and 3) appreciating the prevailing legislative environment. Students develop an evidence-based paper formulated to serve as a resource for all course participants.
Students who want to build on the content from the required pediatric course may elect this course during the last semester of the DPT curriculum. The course provides students with the opportunity to expand the breadth and depth of pediatric knowledge and apply the information to children with a disability.
The course expands and strengthens the knowledge, clinical reasoning, and skill in managing pediatric clients with various disabilities. This course emphasizes examination, evaluation, prognosis and intervention within the context of the child’s culture, family, personality, and age. The impact of legislation, practice setting, team collaboration, and service delivery models are considered in developing the intervention plan. Evidence based practice is promoted through guided literature review. Students are exposed to various interventions, approaches to intervention, age ranges, populations, and practice settings (acute care, outpatient, home-based, school-based, and rehabilitation).
HRSMA students may receive one academic credit for the completion of a relevant internship. The credit would count towards the elective requirement for the degree. In order to receive one credit, students will be required to complete a total of 100 internship hours. The internship must be professional in nature and substantively focused on human rights or social justice. For more information, students should refer to the HRSMA Digital Handbook.
Prerequisites: the director of graduate studies permission if taking more than 3 points of study with any one faculty member. Individual writing on a topic agreed upon by the supervising faculty member.
Prerequisites: the director of graduate studies permission if taking more than 3 points of study with any one faculty member. Individual writing on a topic agreed upon by the supervising faculty member.
This 14-week course during the seventh term of the DPT curriculum is designed to enhance students’ clinical reasoning in managing patients with complex conditions and students’ ability to reflect on their development of clinical reasoning.
This course offers students in their final didactic semester of the DPT program opportunities to think on their feet as well as reflect on their thoughts and decisions after they encounter with simulated patients with complex conditions or watch the unfolding of the simulated cases. The simulated patients are in different clinical domains and various clinical settings. They present with challenging clinical, personal and/or contextual factors, including situations of an ambiguous or unpredictable nature. Students are required to be in the role of a physical therapist, an engaged observer, or a peer evaluator. They are also expected to review relevant case materials before each simulation class, apply what they have learned to each simulation case, and participate actively in the debriefing session of each class using the think aloud method.
Open only to graduate students in the Department of Pathology. Prerequisite: instructor’s permission.
Open only to graduate students in the Department of Pharmacology doing dissertation research.
Open only to graduate students in the basic medical science departments. Prerequisite: instructor’s permission.
This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search
This course during the final semester of the DPT III curriculum provides students with the continued development of medical screening concepts with a focus on the evaluation and assessment of patient cases/scenarios. Using a patient case-based approach, this course will emphasize utilizing clinical decision making/differential diagnosis skills effectively and efficiently related to the concept of threshold detection to identify impairments or “red flags” in medical screening that warrant referral to other professionals. Using previously established examination schemes, students will evaluate patient data in order to select the next-best history question to ask or the next-best physical examination procedure to help rule out potential pathological processes. Existing medical screening guidelines will be reviewed and applied to the various cases-illustrating appropriate use of the guidelines and also potential limitations. Professional communication skills and strategies with patients/clients and physicians will be applied and practiced throughout the course.
Candidates for the M.S. degree may conduct an investigation of some problem in biomedical engineering. No more than 6 points in this course may be counted for graduate credit.