Emily Arnold: Our presenter today, it is my pleasure to introduce Dr. Randee Hunter. She's the Associate Professor and program director for the MSHRS program, so I will let Randee take it away. Randee Hunter: Hi, everyone. Can you hear me? Okay. Emily Arnold: Yeah, I think it sounds good. Randee Hunter: If you can get good. Okay, awesome. Randee Hunter: Hi, I'm just gonna go ahead and give a blanket overview. Some of the basic information to kind of give you guys a framework to start from. Randee Hunter: This information will be for the entire program. Randee Hunter: There are, as you'll see, a couple of options for students who are applying and pursuing the Master's in HRS. And we can go into more details with specific questions that you might have per those options at the end. So this will be kind of a broad overview. But please keep specific questions in mind, and we can do those at the end. Randee Hunter: I'm going to make sure I share the correct screen. Randee Hunter: Okay. Randee Hunter: Toolbar is in the way. Randee Hunter: Okay, is everybody seeing slides? Emily Arnold: Yeah, we're seeing the one, oh, there it goes. It's the full screen now. Randee Hunter: Full slide. Okay? Randee Hunter: Okay? So, as Emily mentioned, I'm the program director for the Masters of Science in Hrs. I've been in this role for about months. We just recently, in autumn of launched a revamp of this program. Our program has existed for a while, but in sort of a different format and with different options for curriculum. Randee Hunter: We really wanted to be able to offer an online or distance education version of our MS. And so we have retained our in-person option. But we have added an online option. And that began in Randee Hunter: -- Randee Hunter: Okay, so just as an overview in terms of the team for the MS. The director for all of Academic Affairs, is Dr. Lindy Weaver. She also recently took over this role from Marcia Nelms, who retired. Randee Hunter: Gosh last summer as well. So Lindy is directing all of the curriculum in Academic Affairs, and runs the office of Academic Affairs in HRS, who oversees student Randee Hunter: student experiences within HRS. I am the Program Director and another individual that you will, if you are inquiring about the program, if you apply and join our program, that you will interact with quite regularly is Ashley McCabe. She's our Graduate Program Manager. She is an extraordinaire for Randee Hunter: curriculum planning Randee Hunter: as well as ensuring that we are meeting guidelines in terms of deadlines for the graduate school. She's our liaison for the graduate school, and so Ashley is not able to join us today, but she is a wealth of information, and you may see some communications coming directly from her. Should you apply to our program. Randee Hunter: So just as an overview, a couple of key things to think about when we're talking about what really sets our masters and HRS apart. So Randee Hunter: the st thing I'd like to share is that we really pride ourselves on providing quality mentorship for all of our master's students. The faculty in HRS. Which is approaching nearly a hundred different individuals are really world renowned educators in their field, who are performing cutting edge research in health, injury, rehabilitation. Randee Hunter: In quite a few diverse aspects that deal with each of those. And so a key component of doing a master's in our program is really that you will be able to experience and work closely whether you're a distance, an online student or an in-person student. With this faculty, both in coursework as well as in mentorship, through either a research project or a research thesis. Randee Hunter: We're also highly interdisciplinary. The School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (HRS) has multiple programs and multiple faculty with different backgrounds that are related to health and rehabilitation sciences, so that allows us to be flexible and help our students in the Master's program to customize their experience, to really meet the goals that they're interested in achieving by completing the masters. Randee Hunter: And there are endless opportunities, as I'm going to go into the tracks and the opportunities in our MS. We have the advanced practice option which really is targeted to our working professionals or to individuals who would like to seek career advancement in the health and rehabilitation sciences world. Randee Hunter: So we have multiple different aspects of our advanced practice track and opportunities to go into teaching and leadership within the healthcare industry, research, healthcare, management, injury biomechanics, to specialize in aging we have a few certificates that will train you to do, to be ready for different certifications. So these are key components that I think, set Randee Hunter: our master's program apart from other master's programs. And as it relates to being involved in the health realm. Randee Hunter: So our Masters of Science in HRS has rolling admissions. I'm going to give you a little bit of information. Just basic information. This information can be accessed from our website through, If you look at MSHRS at OSU, or through OSO, Ohio State Online. Randee Hunter: So our rolling admissions means that we admit to start at the beginning of each term. So you are able to apply to start in the summer, the autumn or the spring, and these are the application deadlines for each of those. So if you're interested in enrolling in summer of 'that application deadline closed earlier this month. Randee Hunter: If you're looking at summer of 'then next February st would be that application deadline. If you're interested in enrolling and starting the program in autumn of 'then you have until April st of this year to complete the application. Randee Hunter: The requirements for applying to the Masters of Science are really set by the graduate school. So we require that you have a minimum cumulative undergraduate G.P.A. of a on a scale. For international students this can be calculated and transformed to match that scale. We also require a bachelor's degree from an accredited Randee Hunter: university or college. It is possible that that bachelor's degree can be in something that is not related to health, and you are interested in pursuing our masters to sort of Randee Hunter: move into the healthcare space in the health and rehabilitation world. So we don't require that you have a clinical bachelor's degree. We don't require that you have any clinical experience. Those things are welcome, but you don't have to have those to apply. Randee Hunter: The materials that you'll need are fairly standard for a master's application. You'll submit a CV and/or a resume Randee Hunter: letters of recommendation. These can be academic or professional. It just needs to be recommendation from someone who has interacted with you in either an academic or a workplace environment. Randee Hunter: A statement of intent. And if you are on the application website, you will see the prompts for the statement of intent. What we're asking you to write about this? Typically, most of these questions have to do with your preparation for the program. Why, you're interested in joining our program. What you would like to do with the masters after Randee Hunter: you've completed, just for us to get a sense of. If it's the right fit. Randee Hunter: We do have an accountable mentorship form that is required for students who are interested in doing our research track. I'm going to go into the differences between our advanced practice track and our research track in a couple of slides here. But the accountable mentorship form does require you. If you're interested in our research track to identify a faculty member in health and rehabilitation sciences. Randee Hunter: who is interested in mentoring you through your master's, through your thesis prior to your application. The reason why we require this for a research track is because the thesis process is fairly intense. And as a full-time student for a master's, typically, you're only around for about years. And so that is not a lot of time to develop a research process. Randee Hunter: So we want to get you on connected to and a relationship established with an HRS faculty member as soon as possible. At that application time. Randee Hunter: We do not require this of our advanced practice students, and I'll talk about that in just a moment, and then we will also ask you to to submit official transcripts to Ohio State. Randee Hunter: In general, the Masters of Science, again, this is a graduate school and our university rule, you have to have at least credit hours for graduation. You can go above and beyond and do more than credit hours, depending on what you are interested in specializing in with your electives. But to graduate with an MS from Ohio State, you have to hit that at least credit hour of graduate education credits. Randee Hunter: We don't have a great timeline for completion for part-time students. Many of our part-time students, particularly in the distance, education. Randee Hunter: distance, learning, or online option are working professionals. And so it really depends for part-time students on Randee Hunter: how much work-life-school balance can occur in each semester. So there isn't a cap, you know. We don't say you have to be done in years for our part-time students. It's really up to what you're able to do, your trajectory, your desired timeline, and how that works for you with respect to balancing the other things that are happening in your life Randee Hunter: for our full-time students, typically our full-time students can do this program in years, including the summer semester. So it ends up being a total of semesters. Randee Hunter: We have tracks to choose from. I mentioned these on the previous slide. One is the Research track, and one is the Advanced Practice track. These are designed for different Randee Hunter: students who are who are hoping to pursue different pathways, and I can give you some some examples of that in a few slides, but the Randee Hunter: the course requirements differ slightly. Our Research track is obviously more heavily pushing research methods and development courses, and our Advanced Practice track has a little bit more flexibility in terms of required course "bins". In that you have some more hours allotted to electives that you can personalize, to pursue a specific specialty or area of emphasis. Randee Hunter: The coursework falls in categories. So we have a Core group, of coursework that every master's student in HRS will take. Randee Hunter: There's a little bit of flexibility in choosing the courses that you put into that Core. But whether you're Research or Advanced Practice, you will take this, the amount of Core coursework courses as a cohort. So most of our students are taking these courses together. Randee Hunter: Depending on which track you take, you'll take different amounts of credit hours towards research methods and design. Again, if you're on the Research track because you will be doing a research-based thesis to graduate, you'll have more expectations in terms of research methods and design courses. Randee Hunter: The major difference between our Research and our Advanced Practice track is whether or not you complete that thesis, or what we call a non-thesis project. If you are in the Advanced Practice track, you will do a non-thesis project. And so you have a couple of credit hours associated with developing that project and completing that project. Randee Hunter: The same is true for the thesis track. You'll just have some thesis credit hours that are devoted towards developing, implementing, and completing that research thesis. Randee Hunter: And then both tracks actually have open electives that you can use to specialize in an area or to achieve a graduate certificate. In addition to your MS. Randee Hunter: There are many open electives, and they do not have to be only within HRS. Another nice aspect about being in a place like Ohio State is that we can actually leverage some of the courses, the graduate courses across the university. So Randee Hunter: these areas that are listed here are divided by the top that have the asterisks are all graduate certificates that have about courses a piece that are housed within HRS. So if you're interested in obtaining the graduate certificate on aging or assistive and rehabilitative technology, or if you're interested more in data analytics and use Randee Hunter: usability. Randee Hunter: We actually house those graduate certificates in HRS, so you can use your open elective credit hours to obtain one of those certificates. Randee Hunter: You can also use those open elective credit hours to focus on other areas of emphasis, like education, injury-biomechanics, leadership and management research. And again, lots more. So a part of the mentorship piece of this, whether you are research or advanced practice is that you will work with an advisor to really hone in on the potential open electives that you can take to meet what you would like to get out of this degree. Randee Hunter: So for details between the tracks. So I'm going to start with the Advanced Practice track. The goal of the Advanced Practice track is really career advancement or preparation for entering clinical graduate programs. A lot of our Advanced Practice Randee Hunter: students are actually working clinically, although you do not have to be. What's special about this track, I think, is that you can tailor your education towards learning more coursework and developing a project that has to do with what you're interested in, in terms of your advancement. So maybe that's management leadership or teaching within the healthcare realm. If you're interested in clinical instruction for health and rehabilitation sciences, students. Randee Hunter: Or you can use that sort of personalized or flexible piece of your open electives to obtain one of those graduate certificates I listed on the previous slide. Randee Hunter: For the Advanced Practice track- so almost half of your -credit hours required for graduation, are dedicated to these electives. So you have quite a bit of flexibility to pursue coursework that's going to enhance your education with respect to topics that are relevant to you. Randee Hunter: The Advanced Practice track, as I mentioned, you do not have to identify an advisor for the application process. However, we, myself and Ashley Randee Hunter: will work with you in your st semester to identify an HRS faculty member who can be a mentor for you, and who can help you with these curriculum decisions? What courses you're going to take to fit your educational needs, and can further your professional practice and career goals by helping you develop that non-thesis project. Randee Hunter: So in general, our curriculum overview. This is of our 'bins' here that I pulled up on the last slide. So we have credit hours required in our Core category here of these courses that are credit hours a piece already. So our introduction to graduate studies which will give you an overview Randee Hunter: of being a graduate student in a master's program at Ohio State and in HRS. And how to successfully navigate that and our responsible conduct of health sciences. This is going to be a research ethics type course. So both our advanced practice and our research master's students are required to take both of these core courses together. Randee Hunter: and then you have a choice from the other courses that are listed in our core category. You just have to choose one additional of those courses to meet that credit hours. If you're interested in management or leadership as sort of your area of focus or area of emphasis, we would suggest that you would take this management and leadership course as your core. However, you can still take the management and leadership course in health sciences. Randee Hunter: Even if that doesn't end up being your area of emphasis, our advanced practice students will also get an introduction to research methods and design, although you'll see that this is much fewer credit hours than we require of our research students, and then everyone will take some non-thesis credit hours. This is going to be with your advisor or your mentor to help you really develop and implement that non-thesis project. Randee Hunter: Just to give you a mock up of how semester to semester for a full-time student might look. Randee Hunter: This is, if a student is interested in specializing in education, for example. So in your first semester, we would recommend somewhere between and credit hours, you'll take that introduction to graduate studies in that very first semester. Randee Hunter: Take your other core course option here, and a research methods and design option. And then one of your education electives. So that could be a potential general idea of what your first semester would look like. In your second semester, we would have you take our other required core course, the responsible conduct in health sciences. Randee Hunter: a teaching practicum. Remember, this is an example for someone who's interested in education and teaching, in health sciences. Randee Hunter: Your second research methods and design, and another elective. Randee Hunter: For a full time student, typically, you'll be going through summer semester as well. So you'll take an independent study, probably with your mentor to help you kind of conceptualize what that research or that non-thesis project will look like. And then in your second year the number of credit hours are much less. But you'll take some non-thesis credit hours with your mentor to start implementing that project that you developed over the summer. Randee Hunter: And then you have a lot of time dedicated towards the electives here in both your first semester of your second year and your second semester. Now, what things can fill all of these elective options? That depends on what you would like to spend your concentration, or what you would like to Randee Hunter: concentrate your education in. So I said that this was an education example, and so essentially what we will do is give you some options, both within HRS. As well as across the university of different courses that can fulfill that education specialty to fill, to fit into each of the elective options Randee Hunter: in each semester. Randee Hunter: Now this is an example for the education. If someone is interested in education or clinical instructor furthering their career in that realm. Randee Hunter: However, you could supplement and or you could exchange this list for someone who is interested in management, leadership, operational excellence, and healthcare, and we would have different courses available here. So this is really the flexibility piece to design your education. How you are interest, how you would like to design it. Randee Hunter: For the Research track- Our goal for these students is to gain knowledge and skills towards becoming a successful researcher. Randee Hunter: Prepare students for careers in industry, preclinical research, clinical research, and even to become an academic. Oftentimes our master's students in the Research track are interested in creating a research foundation to enter additional doctorate programs. So whether it's clinical doctorate programs or even going on to a PhD. Randee Hunter: The requirements for the research track are abundant with research methods and design courses. So you will see when I give you the breakdown, that we have much more of those requirements. And again, as I mentioned before, you'll be mentored by an HRS faculty member. Randee Hunter: HRS faculty - We have quite a diverse group who do both preclinical, translational, and clinical research, all related to the health and rehabilitation sciences. Randee Hunter: The Research track will culminate in a research thesis, a traditional thesis. Oftentimes these end up turning into publications for students and are oftentimes used as writing samples for PhD programs. So our MS Research track would be a potential pathway towards a PhD. Randee Hunter: So as you can see here the Core courses, for our Research students look very much the same. In fact, they're identical for our Advanced Practice students. This is really where you start to see the difference. We require much more credit hours in research methods and design courses. This list is our most popular list in terms of what our students typically take. However, there are additional research methods and design courses across campus that could be added to this particular category Randee Hunter: So just overall, no matter which track you are on again, you have to have a minimum of -credit hours. The curriculum varies slightly in terms of how many credit hours are required in each of those bins, but all students will complete our core courses regardless of the track. Randee Hunter: There is an opportunity to earn graduate certificates, both in HRS as well as outside of HRS. In both the Advanced Practice and the Research track there are fewer credit hours allotted to the Research track for open electives, but you still have the opportunity to pursue one of those graduate certificates. If that is something that interests you. Randee Hunter: The total research hours or non-thesis project. Hours that you take will really depend on your progress. We require at least throughout your -credit hours of those, throughout your time with us. But if you are working on a project that requires more of those credit hours to be taken with your advisor, that is totally fine. Randee Hunter: And our elective options really depend on what your individual interests are and what will contribute to your research, your project, or your career goals and our quality mentorship with faculty, and HRS is going to help you sort of choose those options and give you some guidance. Randee Hunter: This is just a tentative timeline for a full-time student, whether you're talking about an Advanced Practice or Research track options. But your first semester is really getting to know what's going on here in HRS. What's going on in the master's program. That introduction to graduate studies is going to be key in helping you to navigate that. Randee Hunter: Your second semester - You're going to start working with your faculty mentor to brainstorm either about your thesis topic or your project topic as well as really making sure you're planning out those courses, those elective courses that you're interested in taking. Randee Hunter: Your third semester- Really find your niche. Get get those the last majority of courses out of the way, if you can. Randee Hunter: And start to get a solid foundation for that thesis and non or non-thesis project. You do have to form a committee to get a master's of science through the graduate school. The committee composition is something that Ashley and I will help you with as well as your advisor, but it essentially is a committee of faculty graduate status faculty who will help you to Randee Hunter: develop and give you guidance on your research or non-thesis projects solidifying that committee at the start of your second year is going to be really important. So you can get that guidance and feedback by the time you are ready to complete your project or thesis, defend that, and then graduate in your th semester. So again, this is more of a full-time student Randee Hunter: timeline. This can get projected out longer for those who are unable to take full time and doing more of a part-time option. Randee Hunter: Again. Randee Hunter: We really pride ourselves in the quality mentorship for HRS faculty. We actually have a list and descriptions of our faculty. If you go to the HRS webpage, you can start to look at some of their specialties what their research is. Again, if you are doing the research track, you are required Randee Hunter: to fill out that accountable mentorship form before application is complete, before your application is complete. If you're doing the advanced practice track you can apply without that advisor form. Randee Hunter: And we will help you to identify an appropriate mentor. Once you're in the program. Randee Hunter: Just to sort of highlight some of the potential options some of our graduates have gone on to do with the MS in HRS. This list is not comprehensive. There are many others. Randee Hunter: For those who are already working clinically. A lot of our graduates have enrolled in the Ms maintained their position clinically and been able to advance through the career ladders available at their clinical workplace. So maybe they wanted to move into a management or an education lead Randee Hunter: -- Randee Hunter: Healthcare management, roles, industry, research, sales, and training positions. Any industry related to health and rehabilitation sciences. Students have gone on to be clinical instructors and taken academic positions, particularly for those those Randee Hunter: undergraduate programs that are training in our clinical fields preparing for the PhD. We have a lot of master's students who are preparing to apply for med school, but wanted to get a foundation in research or in the research experience before they do so. Randee Hunter: And preparing for other clinical doctorate programs as well. So some of our master's students have enrolled in their doctorate of physical therapy or occupational therapy, so that they have this sort of research background, but then also they'll go on to their clinical training as well. Randee Hunter: So I will answer questions that have been popping up on the chat here, and if anybody wants to unmute, but also these are the best ways to reach, both myself, you'll see Randee dot Hunter at osumc dot edu or Ashley, who can help you with some of the more logistic questions. Randee Hunter: transfer credits, how to go about applying. All of these things are also available on the websites, either MSHRS at OSU or on Ohio State Online. But if you have specific targeted questions, please feel free to reach out to one of us, and this is the best way to reach us. Randee Hunter: And I think that is it.}