The MD-PhD required curriculum for the PhD consists of 72 credit hours from required and elective courses, drawn from these lists.
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 |
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 |
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) |
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 | 3.0 cr |