Students accepted into the Ph.D. program will have a disciplinary expertise beyond the baccalaureate level. Examples of this include, but are not limited to, dietetics, occupational therapy, and physical therapy.
Program graduates will be educated so as to be able to use their disciplinary expertise to subsequently engage in substantive contributions in the field of rehabilitation in the areas of research, education and health services.
Graduates of the program will be able to:
- Articulate the theoretical frameworks of rehabilitation with particular focus on its relevance to their discipline.
- Describe theories of health promotion and disease prevention.
- Demonstrate enhancement of their knowledge base of health and rehabilitation sciences from an interdisciplinary perspective.
- Analyze health services methodological approaches to rehabilitation.
- Critically evaluate research in rehabilitation.
- Access systematic reviews and meta-analysis databases so as to deepen their knowledge of best practices in rehabilitation.
- Engage in substantive research in rehabilitation as it relates to their discipline. This encompasses identifying a line of inquiry and developing hypotheses; choosing appropriate methodology such as research design, instrumentation, and statistical analysis; collecting and analyzing data; and disseminating results.
- Demonstrate an ethical approach to research activities.
- Submit a research grant to an external agency.
- Submit a manuscript to a peer reviewed publication.
- Demonstrate the use of evidence based practice concepts to include the importance of considering patient/client values and preferences in their approach to rehabilitation.
- Teach others about rehabilitation as it relates to their discipline.