Terms |
Milestones and Major Events |
Student Responsibility |
August Prior to Start of Fall Term |
- Attend Graduate Program Orientation and Registration.
- If you are an international student Attend International Student orientation and comply with all Office of International Student requirements. (www.ois.pitt.edu)
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- Complete paperwork for healthcare enrollment, tuition payments (at orientation).
- Bring copies of Visa, Passport, Drivers’ License etc to orientation.
- For international students: complete all items required by OIS
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Fall Term |
- Choose Focus Area
- Identify an advisor for review paper by end of September.
- Complete a total of 15 credits.
- Submit the title / topic of the review paper to the Director of NTMS by December 15.
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- Submit Selected Advisor form to Graduate Program Coordinator no later than October 1.
- Core and Required courses.
- Initiate outline / review topic work with your primary advisor.
- Attend end of semester graduate student meeting.
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Spring Term |
- Complete additional 15 credits for a total of 30 credits.
- Organize a committee to evaluate the review paper by March 15.
- The committee will include three people: your primary advisor, one other faculty member and EITHER the Director of the NTMS program OR the Director of the Graduate Program in Pharmaceutical Sciences.
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- Submit Selected Committee Form to Graduate Program Coordinator by March 30.
- Core and Required courses
- Continue work on the review paper
- Attend end of semester graduate student meeting.
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Summer Term |
- Complete the review paper which needs to be of publishable quality.
- Submit the review paper to the committee members at least three weeks prior to your scheduled defense.
- Defense: Give a 15 – 20 minute oral presentation about the review work in front of a committee.
- Defend your work by answering questions from the committee.
- Graduation
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- Determine your date of defense and scheduled with the Graduate Program Coordinator
- At Closed Defense/ presentation have each member of committee complete the “Review paper Evaluation Form for NTMS” and submit to Graduate Program Coordinator.
- Graduation application must be submitted at least 60 days prior to the date of graduation defined by the University’s academic calendar. See Graduate Program Coordinator for information.
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