Physiology

The MD-PhD required curriculum for the PhD consists of 72 credit hours from required and elective courses, drawn from these lists.

Prerequisites from the first two years of medical education curriculum

IMC 502 Fundamentals I 4.0 cr
IMC 504 Fundamentals II 3.0 cr
IMC 510 GI and Metabolism and Nutrition 6.0 cr
IMC 512 Renal 3.0 cr
IMC 602 Cardiovascular 6.0 cr
IMC 604 Pulmonary 5.0 cr
IMC 610 Neuroscience II 5.0 cr
IMC 612 Endocrine 4.0 cr
    36.0 cr

Physiology requirements

PGY 505 Cell and Membrane Biology 4.0 cr
BMS 501 Cell Biology 4.0 cr
PGY 599 Supervised Teaching 3.0 cr
PGY 701/702 Thesis Research 25.0 cr
MST 601 MD-PhD Seminar 1.0 cr/sem

Electives

BCH 507

 

Protein Structure and Function

2.0 cr

BCH 519

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology 3.0 cr
BCH 512 Developmental Genomics 2.0 cr
BCH 603 Cellular Signaling in Health and Disease 2.0 cr
BIO 502 Advanced Cell and Developmental Biology 4.0 cr
BIO 517 Neurobiology 3.0 cr
BIO 608 Advanced Topics in Macromolecular Structure 3.0 cr
BMI 501 Survey of Biomedical Informatics 3.0 cr
BPH 501 Biomaterials and Cell Surface Phenomena 3.0 cr
GGB 502 Essentials of Genetics and Genomics 3.0 cr
NRS 520 Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience 4.0 cr

You may take these courses with the permission of the director of graduate studies.

Preliminary examination

You must pass a preliminary examination before you’re formally admitted to candidacy for the PhD.