Capstone Project in Translational Research is a vehicle for learning to integrate knowledge and an opportunity to demonstrate new skills and competencies that are core learning outcomes for the MHSc in Translational Research in the Health Sciences. This is an experiential learning course where you will be guided in the development of your own project ideas and supported by the Translational Research Program teaching team and a committee of external advisors. The project course provides opportunities to network and develop professional contacts through student-initiated activities such as interviews, engaging contacts as mentors, and committee members and collaborators. Through capstone projects you gain skills and competencies to navigate ambiguity and deal with setbacks in real-world contexts.

Translation spans a wide range of practices, from discovery science and clinical investigation to knowledge translation, commercialization and implementation, you may focus on a range of activities along the translational pathway. The projects must be novel, collaborative, focus on a specific unmet health science need, allow you opportunities to demonstrate program competencies, and may contribute to practice, research (or scholarship, implementation, leadership in translational research or practice.