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 |