PhD Program Admissions Webinar

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OK great thank you everyone.

Welcome to our PhD web and R my name is Jamie Bergstein. I'm the associate director of graduate admissions here at Penn Nursing. I'm also joined by Doctor Nancy Hodgson, who is the program director for the PhD program here at Penn nursing a few quick housekeeping messages before we start the web and our first. We recommend using a desktop computer with Chrome or Firefox to fully participate in the session.

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I'm just going to give you a broad overview of are the goals of our program how it's designed in terms of its curriculum. Some of the milestones for the application to our program and then we'll spend a good bit of time in the Q&A. To really hear what concerns you have or questions. You have about the application process.

So there are 2 main goals for what we want to prepare in terms of future PhD nurses. The 1st is your ability to develop as a scholar. We are known for setting people up as national and international leaders in Nursing Science and so we wanted to make sure that you leave our program, with the capacity develop your own program of research. That means fostering your intellectual inquiry and curiosity.

And helping you hone those Curiosity's into a scientific research question, and a program of research.

That also means we need to ground you in theoretical development how to evaluate the literature. How to conduct concept analysis of various phenomenon and how to build models of theories that you can test in your research.

And all of this is grounded in skills of critical appraisal. Anna being sceptical of what we consider? What is knowledge and how we know what? We know it's part of any PhD program and it's one that we focus on much of the curriculum on in the PhD program here at Penn.

The second attribute or competency that we want people to leave our program, with is to develop skills as a scientist.

That includes analytic knowledge qualitative skills quantitative skills mixed method scientific skills.

A broad range of it, including historical inquiry, which we also include at Penn Nursing. But bringing a set of methods that help you answer questions you have about particular phenomenon.

This also requires an understanding of the ethics of inquiry since we're working with human subjects. What ethical considerations. Do we need to keep in mind, especially in this day of technology and of other factors that change the way we're doing research and trying to move research into practice are that we need to continually be mindful of and that we talk about as part of our program here.

Add a pragmatic level, we want you to learn how to write grants. You need to fund your research and that is a big driver of success is being able to be funded by your peers and writing competitively for that funding to do the research that we do.

So I was mentioning that we want you to have a broad array of analytic knowledge but we recognize that you probably will need specific competence in a method that will help you study your phenomenon and that's going to be driven by what the state of the Sciences in the area that you're interested in working if there's very little knowledge and you're going to need to focus in a qualitative way around describing really richly understanding your phenomenon that we want to make sure you have the ability to study and become an expert in that methodology.

Other may need to understand very sophisticated quantitative analytic approaches and you may need additional training in those skills.

So I'm going to talk in a minute about our curriculum an what's involved in our curriculum. But those are the main attributes that we're trying to develop in all of our graduates.

Why Penn Nursing will won the degree of a PhD is granted by the University of Pennsylvania?

And we're uniquely situated the School of Nursing is very uniquely situated on Penn Campus.

In that we are figuratively and literally part of a community and we have access to all the other schools available to us at the University of pen within short walking distance.

That is unique many, many medical campuses are distinctly located away from the other aspects of universities.

What is wonderful about that is that our students are able to take and in fact we encourage our students to take their five concentration courses or electives that all students must take outside of our school, so that you really broaden your understanding of your phenomenon or the methods that you need to bring to your phenomenon.

Using the rich resource is at Wharton at our School of Economics, sociology, social policy and practice etc. To really help you understand your area of focus.

We are known for preparing nurse scientists in research intensive environments. So while we recognize that many people seek a PhD in order to have a career in academia and in teaching and certainly we want you to leave here with skills to educate future nurses.

Our focus is mostly in the research field development. If you're interested in obtaining a PhD because you want to teach students. There are wonderful programs out there in the United States or internationally to help you develop a teaching PhD focused career. Our focus is in a research intensive or are one level University preparation.

You and Isaac consequences that our faculty and the other scholars and PhD students and Post Docs. Here are some of the most forward thinking leaders in nursing practice nursing research and education. So you're surrounded environment where that skills those skills are fostered.

We'll talk a little bit now about the application requirements and what we're looking for in those students that we accept to our program.

The main focus that we evaluate is the essay an we are looking at the essay for one year ability to write clearly.

Secondly is your ability to communicate the phenomenon that you're interested in studying.

And 3rd is to communicate why Penn, who here among our faculty is go are experts in your area and can help mentor you and foster you in your area of inquiry. It is the match between your interest and what we can provide you that is the biggest driver of our admissions decisions.

We do look at your official transcripts because we are interested in seeing that. You have a history of academic success and work study habits that you will need to succeed in our rigorous program.

You also need to submit to us at RN license so for anyone who is finishing their BSN and we welcome people who are currently BSN's students who apply our program. But we will need a copy of your are in license before you can enter our program. But certainly that shouldn't stop you from applying right now, even though you're be at your end clicks exam may be forthcoming.

We also look at GRE scores. We do not drive our decision solely based on Jerry scores we use a very holistic process to admit students. However, we want to make sure that you have it a basic level, the mathematical quantitative analytics skills, and the writing skills.

But we know you need to survive. Our statistics programs training an much of the writing that is necessary as part of being a PhD student.

This is to say that a very high agiri score is not going to give you preferential treatment over someone who has an average Jerry score because in fact, it is back to that essay that we are looking for it is that match and the alignment that we, as our driver and we also know that some standardized test are more difficult for other students. So we look at it, but we don't put a lot of weight on that, so please don't spend too much time being concerned.

However, if you have very low quantitative or writing skills on your GRE we would encourage you to try to retake your test and try to move up your scores so that they reach an average or above average level.

And the final piece are is 3 letters of recommendation and we describe the requirements for those 3 letters on our application website again. We're looking for evidence of your commitment to a career in research. It's not your clinical expertise that were necessary looking for here. However, people do, often have a clinical colleague or supervisor right there letter recommendation what we're looking for is the curiosity and intellectual inquiry.

That drives PhD level nurses.

So our application deadline is coming up December, 1st is the application deadline.

In mid December after we received all the applications. We will meet here to review.

All of our applications and to invite those that we select for interview.

In January, you'll be invited on campus to be in for an in person interview for people who are international. We do also offer an opportunity to do a Skype type interview.

But we do prefer all in person contact with people it helps us get to know you better.

And those interviews are conducted with faculty that either you indicate on your essay or people, you like to work with and hopefully you've already reached out to those individuals, but they are experts in your area so that we can evaluate again that match with your research and the ability for us to mentor you in that area.

And then we release our decisions in February and we as other programs do offer you the until April to let us know of your decision. But the sooner you can let us know the better because that helps us with planning.

Now I'm going to talk about our curriculum and what's involved in our program.

I'd like to start off by saying that we guarantee 4 years of tuition and stipend support for all students admitted to our program.

So our program is designed to be completed in a 4 year or less period of time.

And on average are students take about 4 years to complete the program. The curriculum can be completed in this by that. I mean, the course work can be completed within 2 years and so the remaining time is spent working on your dissertation and the time to defend your dissertation is really driven by the type of project that your dissertation involves.

So students can complete our program in 3 years, an A number of them do.

So talking about our formal coursework. There are 14 course units that we have as part of our program. We are a full time program. Although we do not offer. We do not have courses in the summer, but there are other milestones that students work on during the summer time.

Typically students take between 3:00 and 4:00 courses per semester.

There are 7 core courses and two of these courses are statistics courses. I'll talk about that. In one second 'cause. We have an array of statistics courses at the University that we offer to our students. But first I want to talk about our 5 core courses.

The first course is an inquiry into nursing. This is a general course that looks at the philosophy of knowledge. An understanding the different ways of knowing and critically evaluating how we know what we know and exposing you to different models of how we think about various phenomenon. It's a quintessential course that's probably part of all PhD programs.

We also have a course on evolving nursing science that begins to expose you to different theoretical frameworks. Ways of understanding your phenomenon from the existing knowledge and theories in nursing science as well as other behavioral science fields.

Our 3rd required courses in quantitative design an methods.

Where you are exposed to an array of quantitative methods you are learning about them in statistics courses, but now you're learning? How to apply them to a specific nursing phenomenon. An you write a mini quantitative proposal as part of that course.

Similarly, we have a qualitative research course, where you understand the qualitative design of research questions and the methods associated with that and the rigor that both of these methods require.

And the 5th required courses called Dissertation Seminar in this course and this is, after you've completed all of your other required courses.

You are working on your dissertation sharing it with your colleagues and your colleagues are sharing their dissertation draft with you.

Annu critically appraise each others work. It's a part of being in joining a scholarship community. It's considered one of our required courses.

I mentioned those 2 statistics course sequences. We have 3 options for students who take a series of two statistics courses. A part one and Part 2 and those 2 statistic or series are offered in several of the colleges here at University for example, we have a statistic series at our Wharton School at our school, sociology, and in our school of Public Health.

Students can choose those statistics course sequences, they take the part one and Part 2. Sequentially and usually it's in conversation with their mentor ship team is to decide which is the best series for them based on the type of research that they're going to be doing.

Then we have 5 electives 5 concentration courses that I mentioned that are at your selection. In conversation with your mentor ship team 2 men to enhance your understanding of your research phenomenon. An we do encourage these courses to be taken outside of our School of Nursing, so that you brought in and stretch your thinking about the interest that you have.

Also included in our formal courses is a teaching residency where you are exposed and given or you work on a project to enhance your teaching skills and that's a one semester project. Some students work on that over the summer, but roster it in a different semester. We also have a research residency, where you work, intensely with your research mentor on a project it can be to work on writing a grant proposal for example, for your research.

Or focusing in on a particular research method with your mentor ship team.

Those are required courses.

And began in general can be completed in 2 years.

We also have 3 milestones.

That occur as part of.

The curriculum as well.

The first milestone is a qualifying or or we call it a general exam.

This is the first milestone that you complete after one year in our program so you've completed a number of the core required courses and we prepare you during those courses on how to critically evaluate the literature.

We have your now sort of have a better understanding of your phenomenon and beginning to expose and get exposed to the literature in your research area.

And so after that one first year of taking the courses that are required in your one there's that summer break.

Where you spend your time really getting immersed in that literature?

And synthesizing that literature.

An writing that into an approximately 20 to 30, Page paper. That includes tables where you're really synthesizing the area that you're and really understanding your phenomenon in depth.

You defend that.

Paper.

Oral defense by October 15th of this start of your second year.

And that is considered for us a very important milestone. It shows us your ability to synthesize the literature under critically appraise it.

And now that you've understood your literature. You'll understand where there's gaps in understanding where the next research questions need to be asked so that you can begin to think about where your dissertation fits in our current understanding of that phenomenon.

The follow the next milestone to follow that is your candidacy exam in this is the draft of your dissertation proposal. So this is what you're setting forth to study as part of your dissertation. This is your project and what you're posing to us to be the focus of your PhD work.

Most students write this proposal, the second summer between years 2 and reach your three and sometime during that 3rd year is when they do foot defend that proposal and begin the work of finalizing and conducting that dissertation.

Thought after you defend your tennis exam, you're considered on dissertation status.

And after you finish your dissertation and defend it that is the final milestone of our program is defending your dissertation.

We offered 2 options for organizing your dissertation of 5 chapter option or a book, which is a very traditional format for presenting dissertations.

We also encourage a 3 article dissertation where the final product of your dissertation is 3 publishable manuscripts.

Often, that first manuscript is the synthesis the literature. The literature review that you did for the qualifying exam and the two subsequent articles are the findings from your dissertation.

Students find that to be a very successful model because they already leave the program with three articles.

But it's up to you and your committee to decide what is the best format for you for putting together your dissertation and defending it?

The most important ingredient in our program and the biggest driver as I mentioned for acceptance into our program is the match between you and the mentor ship that we can provide to you.

That is the secret sauce of any PhD program.

And it's the most important thing and the interaction with you and your your mentor is probably the best thing, that you leave this program, with because lifelong mentor ship in lifelong learning is part of being a PhD nurse.

So we expect mentors and mentees to meet often and by that I mean, weekly to biweekly with your mentor.

During those meetings, you'll have set up a plan of short and long term goals. What you hope to accomplish in the next week in the first year that's probably getting through your coursework and working on your course assignments. But you work with your mentor to check in with them and you're also beginning to think more deeply about your phenomenon. So you'll have intellectual conversations with your mentor about what you're learning what you're thinking. The very different relationship at the PhD level than what you've experienced as an undergrad or as a Masters level student PhD learning.

It's very, very different there's a lot more reading a lot more reflecting a lot less memorization and a lot more critical thinking. Then you've applied the pageants at mentor ship that's very important for you to master that.

So, your mentor can bring to you advice and direction, advice on your courses. You'll be exposed to their research program. You may want to work as part of their research program on your own dissertation and carve out your own question from their work, you'll get a lot of technical assistance. There meant to push you and get the best out of you and also help you find resource is as well as think about the next steps of your career.

We hope that you leave here with one set of publications and beginning curriculum vitae that or CD. That is showing your beginning scholarship in terms of publications First off so we want to make sure that every course assignment where you're writing a paper ultimately becomes a peer reviewed publication.

Uh there's other ways of publishing 2. You could be sending letters to editors. We want you to make sure you have a chance to be a part of a review Journal review process.

We also want you to make sure that you're presenting your work.

In professional meetings or other scholarly presentations.

And we want you to begin to think about ways of funding. Your work so we encourage our students who submit an F31. This is a applications in the National Institute of health to fund your dissertation project. They're very competitive. But there are the biggest driver, a predictor of future success of students can submit and get funded an individual. F 30 one or comprable funding for their dissertation.

Speaking of funding. I mentioned at the beginning of this meeting that we offer 4 years of full funding support in exchange for your work as a teaching assistant.

So you will be working 16 hours a week as a teaching assistant eight of those hours pay your tuition and eight of those hours are used to pay you a stipend and health insurance.

Students can choose to work outside of that in many do work outside. They continue their work as nurses and we feel well. This is a full time program but students can work. It says 10 hours here per week. But we know some people have to work 12 hour shifts so people are allowed to work up to 12 hours per week.

As part of our program and we know that people often do that. We also encourage students to apply for the nurse faculty loan repayment program or the NIH loan. Repayment program and our financial aid resource Department will help you with those sources of funding.

So while we guarantee for years of funding for students. We do also have 2T30 twos here. These are training grant centers that offer spots to pay our students. The same stypin intuition benefit but rather than working as teaching assistants. They work within the research being conducted in those respective centers and we have 2 T 32 centers. I'll talk about in a minute.

The other option is for you to get your own funding through that F 30 one. I talked about the F31 will pay your tuition and stipend and health insurance and you will not have to work as a teaching assistant.

But be assured that you are short funding if you're admitted to our program for 4 years.

The outside training opportunities are also a very important part of the pen community. There are so many speakers and resource is that go on in our environment that also enrich your learning for example, we have an ongoing series in the responsible conduct of research or recent topics have been around the role of social media and responsible research or predatory journals that are continually popping up and whether implications are for how we publish our findings and disseminate our findings.

Other topics can be about the role of innovation and design, thinking in how we solve research questions.

Or in very current public health problems like the role of opioids chronic pain and addiction.

The doctoral student organization here in the School of Nursing is also very active and they hold their own colloquia focused on topics that are of interest to our PhD students.

And then I mentioned are 2T32 grants so we have 2 research centers here that fund in general, 2 doctoral students per year.

These are competitive slots, but if your research aligns with these areas, I would encourage you to reach out to these directores to inquire about the potential availability of a T32 position if you're accepted to our school, they're very prestigious.

The first Research Center, I would encourage you to look at is the Center for health outcomes and Policy Research.

As the title gives away this is people were focused on major health outcomes. Large datasets and the policy implications from looking at macro level big data to solve the health care problems.

You can Google their website and look at the work that's being done there. It has important implications for nurse staffing ratios and the role of nurses in improving health outcomes. And if that research is of interest to you. This is the center that you would want to work for and with.

The second.

Important center here is the Center for the new Courtland Center for transitions in health led by Doctor Mary Naylor.

This center studies but multiple health transitions that many patients go through from home to hospital hospital to rehab home care, etc. Even from living well, too, active treatment for cancer to palliative treatment for cancer. For example, but these transitions that we have our patients face and the implications for their health.

And if you're a researcher lines with that phenomenon. I would encourage you to reach out to doctor Mary Naylor into Google that bad Centra site to see where you could fit in.

These centers even if you're a member of their T 32. If you're a doctoral student as part of them or not. They hold ongoing colloquium and speakers and they invite the entire community to participate in that.

So another tremendous resource.

The other centers that we have here because we have 4 centers. We have a Center for global Women's Health.

We also have a Center for the history of nursing as part of our four center so.

There are other activities that go on in these spaces on speakers, etc and training opportunities that come in.

Although the Center for Global Women's Health and the history center do not offer any pre doctoral student funding. They certainly offer a lot of other wonderful resource is.

PhD studies at the University of pen are very rigorous, but we recognize the important role of life work balance and the need for Wellness and self care practices as well as recharging and so our physical environment has wonderful spaces for you to seek out those recharging spaces.

Our museums are free to our students gym membership is also free to our students. We have beautiful libraries. This picture on the bottom is our pen, Fisher Art Museum Library. We also have a bio pond and other areas on our green campus to find space to reflect and think that's important part of also being a scholar.

In terms of the program. I know I've given you a very broad overview of our curriculum. There's a lot more detail right here on our website in our PhD Handbook. It goes to everything that's involved in being a PhD student nuts and bolts in this document and so that is there for you to peruse as well.

I'll end with this quote around the duty of privilege and it's absolute integrity that only one percent of our nation's more than 3 million nurses have doctoral degrees. So we consider our PhD students to be stewards of very scarce resource is.

And we want you to make the best use of those skills and training that is the goal of our program.

With that I'm going to now turn it over to Jaime Anne will be looking at any questions that you might have typed for us, OK, so if you want to type your questions into the chat box take a minute to review them and will start answering questions.

It's a great question, I was almost going to answer this question 'cause. It's the 1st question, we always receive the question is how many applications do we receive each year and how many? Do we accept?

It's we, we in general, except about 10 students a year.

That number depends on our funding situation, but 10 is about average. We we sometimes receive up to 80 applications a year so it is a competitive admission process.

2nd question was how many days a week are students on campus for course work and we do encourage our students to be residential in the Philadelphia community because while courses may be offered over a 2 to 3 day period. There's so many other activities. And things taking place that we want you to be taking advantage and and physically here on campus to get the most out of it. However, we realize the students have other life and work demands so on average. Our students are here 3 to 4 days a week.

The next question is can you explain more about the PhD Masters and bioethics program or of course work from other MBA program counts through the pH. DS at work tour. The PhD program and the answer is that yes are the 5 concentration courses that you take if they are part of your dissertation question can count toward both your PhD an your MBA.

That's probably very specific question and we probably want to talk with you in more detail. We want to probably have you reach out to get anymore. Details about that? But just as a general answer you can count our MBA courses tored your PhD.

And there are a number of students who do obtain their Masters in bioethics here.

The typical schedule for students during the first two years when taking core courses can vary greatly. But in general are biostat courses are offered on Tuesdays or other Corp courses are offered on Mondays and Wednesdays, so in general. People are here Monday through Wednesday. But if they are part of an 8032 center or their mentors as other work for them, they might be here Mondays through Thursdays.

Uh that's a general practice.

So the next question is, do international students need RN certification. The answer is yes. You'll need to complete a process that certifies that your RN license in whatever country you're currently residing in is the equivalent of a US license. There's more information on our website. But the organization. You go through is called CGFNS. It can take awhile so I recommend you start.

At least a year in advance, so if you are applying for the fall 2020, you should start now.

The next question is if there's a GRE waiver for international students. No there's no GRE waiver. All students were all applicants. Excuse me regardless of your country citizenship or academic background are required to take the GRE.

The next question asks about the VSND PhD program so we recognize that we need to have younger nurses entering the field of nursing science. We no longer require a Masters degree to enter our PhD program. Students can apply wall BSN. Students who are perhaps anticipating graduation in May to enter our program as soon as their BSN is ended.

And then they say Qua immediately into our PhD program starting next fall.

And I would say among our current cohort of 1st year pH. DS we have several students who completed their bachelors degrees last May on are doing fine in our current PhD program. They knew that they wanted to receive their PhD and they are working towards that now.

If you have, I would encourage you to reach out to particular faculty. If you have more questions about that faculty that you're looking for is mentors. But there is no that it's the same PhD program for all students. We have a previous and programs to students who are currently in our BSN program can also be working toward their PhD. That's called are Hillman Scholars Program. That's a unique program to pen that's open to students who are currently in our BSN program.

The T32 and F30, one are open to you as citizens. These are students. If you have a green card. You're eligible to apply or if you have residential status. But our international you are eligible apply if you're on a student visa. You are not eligible to apply 4032 or F31.

OK, the question that Louise asked about how define to the research topic question be at the time of application is a great question because we know that you're just deciding and you made a very difficult decision to think about being an seeking a pH D.

And that you have a general area of interest and that's maybe, as far as you are right now, you just you have bikini.

Sands of curiosity about something and you have a problem that you want to understand how to solve better.

This question on this topic will continue to evolve and change and shift as part of being a PhD student so the question and topic that you raised.

Essay is not probably going to be the dissertation question that you answer that is happened to all of us here. But we do want to see that you can hone in on a research question, and that you can understand more than just knowing that there's a broken healthcare system that we need to fix. Where is it you would like to focus your area of inquiry and Secondly that there's somebody here at Penn? Who is focused in that area that can mentor you along those lines.

That is about as broad that is about as specific as we're looking for right now. We know that it's a struggle that many people have lots of research questions around their topic area will help you home that research question. But we want you to communicate to us what you're interested in studying and what population you're interested in studying or where you're Arab inquiries, particularly focused so that we can make sure we can provide you with that mentorship as I mentioned before that is the biggest piece of information, I'd like to convey to you today.

Are you able to listen multiple mentors in your personal statement? Yes, please do? In fact all of our PhD students are assigned to mentors and your dissertation committee is of course, bigger than that. But we know that you may have a several areas of interest. You may want to bridge areas of interest. So if you want to mention 2 or more mentors in your personal statement. Please do sometimes our mentors are not always available. And so it's good to have a choice of people that you would choose to work with different faculty, maybe on sabbatical or.

Mentoring too many students right now to take on more students that we want to make sure that we have people available to you and that's a great question Molly.

More as since being a teaching assistant is part of the funding for tuition, and you explain more about what's involved in that.

I mentioned that a teaching assistant role is about 16 hours a week. You're assigned to a course any it could be anywhere in our program if it's a very large course often 2 teaching assistants are assigned to work with the faculty director. Anna faculty codirector, so you're not assigned a course you're not assigned to lead courses. There are some schools that often will give students a course to teach that is not what are teaching assistant role is here?

You are you contract with the faculty member who is directing that course and carve out a role for yourself in assisting and learning how to teach that course it may involve creating of some assignments.

If there is a web based component to that course it might be monitoring the discussion board. You're probably going to be asked to give it one lecture so you have a chance to teach in front of the class on an area that you feel comfortable teaching. But the expectations of the teaching assistant role vary based on the course itself. But it's not meant to be any extreme role for people. It's meant to enhance your teaching experience.

We have a bit more time so if you want to have follow up questions.

OK, Rita asked if we have job opportunities for a PhD students.

The majority of our students and by that I mean, probably 80% or more go onto competitive postdoc positions.

There's a lot you are going to learn during your pH D program.

But there's probably additional skills that you'll need to home.

And so many of our students. In fact, any PhD entering academia right now finds it very important to have a one or 2 year postdoc.

Uh after their PhD gives you a chance to publish your dissertation and also learn a new area of inquiry.

So most of our students go on to at least immediately after graduation go onto competitive postdocs and we generate an receive very competitive postdoc positions among our graduates.

From that most of our graduates go on to very successful careers in academia and research intensive universities, so that is what our program is known for and that is what we tend to generate we have many renowned national and international leaders who are graduates of our PhD program.

I don't think there's any question about special concerns for international students to think of during applications.

No, I mean, I think as long as you can articulate why the University of pen is the school for you, given that you're in a country that may offer other other opportunities to learn but as long as you can strongly articulate your commitment and your need to focus your studies here and with our faculty. We do always accept international students as part of our incoming cohort we?

Really, try to be as broad and diverse as possible in the students that we admit to our programming feel that's a real strength of our program.

In terms of actual application materials.

Just a reminder that if you.

Attended school outside of the United States will need to have a transcript evaluation, either from Wes or CGF&S. We talked about that. You'll need a US nursing license, so you can go through this EG CG FNS.

Qualification process an Lastly if English is not your native language or if your undergraduate degree was not conducted in English. You'll need to submit that to full or the Isles.

The question about artificial intelligence research at Penn Nursing. I would encourage you to look at our pen faculty website. Doctor George Demiris does some work in this area, but you want to be able to show us that you've done. The research to know why you're applying to pen in that you understand what we have available to you in terms of AI Research at the larger University level. We certainly have a lot going on in AI research and there's a large focus of innovation here.

I'm so Kelly asked whether to apply whether to mention one faculty member or more than one faculty member. It depends on your area of interest. If you see that there are more than one faculty member here that couldn't help mentor you then I would mention those faculty members. However, if there's only one that is focused in your area of inquiry. Then then you should focus on that one.

But that really is driven by your particular interest. But it does help to mention if you see several faculty who you'd like to work with to mention all of those individuals and why.

Why you feel that connection it's that link that we're looking for?

These are great questions everyone so please keep 'em coming. We have about 7 eight more minutes.

So the question is the application requests. We upload a resume rather than a CV do you prefer a one page format? We'll take either a resume or CV? Most people do tend to submit a resume it can be longer than one page. Uhm most people. I would say for the PhD program submit anywhere from 2 to 4 pages. You can elaborate on your professional experience.

I'm certainly highlight any leadership experiences, academics significant extracurricular volunteer activities. Hobbies certainly any research that you have done expand appan that any publishing that you've been involved with you can certainly expand on all of those things. Yeah, I mean, I think if you have a CD. That's probably better to submit we realize that many people at this stage may not have a CV.

And so we ask for a resume recognizing that that could be the state of your career. But we will be moving your resume to a CD as part of your PhD experience so if you have a CD where you are beginning to show your scholarship and please use that as the document you upload.

The funding in terms of cost of living.

The stripe in that is that is paid to students here is approximately $24,000 a year that is the government rate that is provided and we follow NIH guidelines for determining arse typing. It is adjusted for cost of living every year. But we recognize that's not a lot of money graduate student being a graduate student, is not is a time of investment.

So the striping that we provide students may not be enough to cover cost of living and that's by some students choose to work outside. We also do offer students chances to teach beyond the teaching assistants in trip roll an R graduate office.

Uh for professional students and graduate students does offer other opportunities so I would encourage you to go to our gaps a website.

Um where they give information about their health insurance available to family members of graduate students and other financial resource is that we provide to students to manage their time and finances during Graduate School.

If you've worked with prior pH DS in nursing and they can speak to your scholarship your curiosity. Your work ethic any of those things that are letters of recommendation ask for that is a great way of having a PhD in nursing right one year letter so.

It's people use a variety of individuals to write their letters of support, but if you have a PhD in nursing? Who can speak to that aspect of your work, then that would be a great idea.

I will say for their letters of recommendation. We're really looking for quality letters of recommendation so we wouldn't advise you to choose someone just because they have a PhD in nursing as doctor, Hodgson said. We should really be able to speak to your ability to perform in a PhD program and the qualities that were looking for.

OK, if there are no additional questions will wrapped things up. You can always contact us for additional questions. The email addresses in missions at nursing.upenn.edu.

In a few days you'll receive a recording of this web and are sent from our admissions account. So you can reply directly to that email if you have additional questions. Thank you again to doctor Nancy Hodgson for her time and explaining her PhD program.

Good luck to everyone applying this fall. We look forward to reviewing your applications and we thank you for taking time out of your day to listen to our web and R.

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