Biobehavioral Nursing Research
Pre and
Post Doctoral Training Program
Pre doc Information and sequence of training
Individualization of the trainee's program under the advisement
of core/supporting faculty (Pre and post doctoral trainees will
select from graduate courses in Nursing and in Related Fields
to develop knowledge and expertise in their own focused area
critical to the generation of knowledge related to the integration
of behavioral, social and biologic human responses in health
and illness.)
Progression and Training
The predoctoral trainees will participate in a training
program of up to 2 years of support. Trainees:
Are expected to develop an individual NRSA or other means
of support for their dissertation work.
Will direct participation in ongoing investigations of the
core and supporting faculty in such activities as conceptual formation,
data collection, analysis, techniques of specific assays
and methodologies and the like.
Will participate in weekly seminars around different topics each
quarter that are specific to the program, but also open to
other scholars in the school.
Faculty mentors will review progress with each predoctoral
trainee quarterly and discuss any problem areas with the
co-directors as needed.
Co-directors will annually review quarterly report.
Predoctoral trainees will focus their dissertation research
on a topic related to either primary or secondary prevention
of biobehavioral disease, impairment or disability, with
their dissertation chair being grounded in the topic of
primary interest and the focus area of biobehavioral nursing
research.