PALC 899 PALLIATIVE CARE DISSERTATION RESEARCH
This course is designed to provide guidance, support and mentoring to the PhD degree candidate throughout the dissertation process. Learners will make an original contribution to the scholarship of palliative care demonstrating the doctoral student's ability to research an important question in the field and capacity to present and interpret research findings in a clear and logical written form. Learners in this course will complete institutional requirements for engaging in academic research to include at minimum submission of a completed IRB application to the University Institutional Review Board for Human Subjects research (IRB). The dissertation is completed under the supervision of a faculty chair and is formally presented in an oral presentation to the dissertation committee. Dissertation credits are taken after the graduate student has been approved for admission to candidacy (approval from dissertation committee) for the doctoral degree in Palliative Care. A minimum of 12 credits are taken by students to complete the dissertation degree requirement.