Gateways Program

Capstone Project

All students in the Master of Medical Science program complete a focused community project of benefit to their longitudinal community healthcare site and patients.

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Capstone Project

All students in the Master of Medical Science program complete a focused community project of benefit to their longitudinal community healthcare site and patients.

You will be able to choose from a variety of projects offered by your community site.  Projects must be approved by both the ScM program director and the site coordinator at your community healthcare site.

Goals & Objectives

  • To integrate knowledge from different disciplines and from fieldwork experience
  • To independently explore a focused healthcare topic
  • To "give back" to community by collaborating with a Federally Qualifies Health Center (FQHC) to provide assistance on a quality improvement project of the FQHC's choice and of relevance to patients students have been seeing
  • To develop multiple transferable skills (eg. flexibility, collaboration/teamwork, scientific abstract writing, poster and oral presentation skills, teaching skills)

Recent Archived Projects

View previous capstone projects at the Brown Digital Repository (BDR).

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Gateways students stand beside their poster boards, engaging in conversation while attendees circulate through the open, airy hall
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Gateways student with small group leaders
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A research presentation in progress, featuring a detailed poster and an engaged discussion between two participants in a professional environment.
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Two individuals pose beside a Capstone poster.
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Nicole presents research findings to a group, gesturing toward a poster filled with charts and data.
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A Gateways student explains a data-heavy poster to Dean Jain, highlighting graphs and results in an academic setting.
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The image captures a one-on-one exchange during the Capstone poster session, with the speaker actively describing their work.
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A close-up view of a poster presentation shows Soneida mid-explanation while the listeners watches attentively.
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The image shows a mentoring or evaluative conversation, with the listener carefully considering the presenter’s explanation.
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The scene highlights an interactive academic moment, with the presenter using expressive gestures to communicate complex information.
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Two individuals pose beside a Capstone poster.
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