At the Doctor of Physical Therapy Program, we believe that all students must become informed consumers of evidence based practice, and participation in research is a method for acquiring this skill.

Doctor of Physical Therapy students will have two options to explore research. Within the core curriculum, each student is exposed to three evidence-based-practice courses (the EBP series), which consist of understanding the basis of scientific inquiry, appropriate research design (qualitative and quantitative), different elements of research methodology, and analytics.

The three course EBP series culminates with a capstone project that is performed jointly with a faculty mentor(s) in a content area of interest. External to the core curriculum, students also have the capacity to take electives with research-based faculty. The “trans-curricular” electives allow students to participate in a dedicated research project from the first two years of the program. Credit is applied during semester 6. Participating in the research elective does not preclude students from taking other practice based electives in semester 6.