Oral Biology

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 500 Medicine and Society 2.0 cr
IMC 502 Fundamentals I 7.2 cr
IMC 504 Fundamentals II 3.8 cr
IMC 510 GI and Metabolism 5.5 cr
IMC 602 Cardiovascular 7.2 cr
IMC 604 Pulmonary 8.0 cr
IMC 610 Neuroscience II 2.3 cr
Laboratory Rotations
    36.0 cr

Required core courses

ORB 519/520 Critical Analysis of Literature — Oral Biology 1.0 cr/sem
MST 601 MD-PhD Seminar 1.0 cr/sem
ORB 671 Independent Study (Preliminary Exam) 2.0 cr/sem
ORB variable PhD Research variable

Required core departmental courses

ORB 500 Cranio. Dev, Tissue Eng & Oral 2.0 cr (Fall)
ORB 510 Saliva and the Oral Microbiome 3.0 cr (Spring)
One of the following:    
OS 518 Statistical Methods 4.0 cr (Spring)
STA 525 Stat. for Bioinformatics 3.0 cr (Spring)
STA 527 Intro to Medical Statistics 4.0 cr (Fall)

Optional MD-PhD electives

Students may take electives in other departments.

MIC 512 General Immunology  4.0 cr
MIC 510 Graduate Microbiology 6.0 cr
BIO 500 Bioinformatics/Genomics 3.0 cr
BCH 508 Gene Expression 2.0 cr
BCH/BIO 519

Introduction to Bioinformatics         
and Computational Biology

3.0 cr