Faculty Scholars Program
Program Requirements
Faculty Scholars are expected to attend 10 full-day sessions each month over the course of the academic calendar year. These sessions are typically scheduled on the 3rd Friday of the month. Scholars also optionally participate in three (3) half-day sessions that are specifically targeted to further learning. Two half days consist of educational content focused on curriculum and research design and nutrition. Another half day session occurs with the larger alumnae community of Faculty Scholars. Participating faculty receive two binders of materials that include reading and resource information.
Between monthly sessions, scholars are expected to complete assigned reading and to work on designing an individual curriculum, research or clinical service application project of their own passion related to integrative health. Scholars will be mentored on these projects by Integrative medicine program faculty.
FSP projects can consist of one of the following:
1) An educational module/course complete with learning resources, activities, research evidence, etc
2) A specific educational application in the curriculum of the school or department in which the candidate works
3) A clinical service or research proposal that can be submitted for internal or external funding
4) A pilot research project to empirically examine educational, clinical or science applications to integrative health issues.
Tuition
A $750 tuition fee is required for participation in this year long program in order to offset costs resulting from decreased foundation support. Should additional foundation monies be received before the program begins, we plan to reduce the program fee accordingly.
Program payment may be made by personal check or through departmental account transfer within 4 weeks of notification of acceptance: July 28th, 2009. Preference for tuition payment is one lump sum, although a two-installment plan is also an option. In this latter case, half the tuition will be expected to be received by July 28th , 2009 and the other half, September 21st , 2009. We are sorry that will not be able to offer any tuition refunds once Scholars are accepted and agree to participate for the academic year.
