3.2 Capstone Project
The Capstone Project provides an opportunity for PP-SLPD students to apply knowledge and skills developed in core courses to address a defined problem affecting health and service access and/or delivery. The Capstone Project is the students’ opportunity to display new skills in planning, development, implementation and dissemination of an innovative solution that will have immediate impact at the system, organization or global level. Students will be required to implement their scholarly response to a health care problem, however, implementation may appear differently depending on the specialty area of the scholarly project.
In the Institute’s Post-Professional SLPD program, the Capstone Project philosophically represents an opportunity for students, mentors, interprofessional peers, faculty, and health and service organizations to work together on initiatives that will immediately address a system need. In addition, the Capstone Project provides opportunities for students to design solutions that synthesize knowledge, skills, and attitudes acquired through the explicit curriculum, their professional experiences, their interprofessional experiences, and through a virtual learning context.