# Advising During the first term students will have the program course directors as their advisors. Students will search for a lab to join throughout the term. The program manager will monitor to make sure the student is taking the required coursework.\ \ Once matched in the lab, the research mentor will become the student’s Capstone Advisor and work directly with the student to develop the capstone project and provide guidance throughout. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://ismms-gs.gitbook.io/graduate-student-handbook/chapter-5/master-of-science-in-biomedical-data-science-and-ai-mdsai/advising.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.