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 |
| 36.0 cr |
| MIC 512 | Fundamentals of Immunology | 2.0 cr |
| MIC 513 | Eukaryotic Pathogens | 2.0 cr |
| MIC 515 | Virology | 2.0 cr |
| MIC 516 | Bacteriology | 2.0 cr |
| MIC 610 | Critical Analysis | 1.0 cr/sem |
| MST 601 | MD-PhD Seminar | 1.0 cr/sem |
| MIC 700 | PhD Research | Variable |
Two Advanced Topics courses are required. Most of these require instructors’ permission for enrollment. You may register for the same Advanced Topic course twice, but we encourage you to take Advanced Topic courses outside your focus area.
| MIC 599 | Supervised Teaching | Variable |
| Mic 601 | Eukaryotic RNA Biology | 2.0 cr |
| MIC 606 | Advanced Topics in Modern Microscopy | 2.0 cr |
| MIC 607 | DNA Replication and Repair | 2.0 cr |
| MIC 608 | Eukaryotic Pathogen Gene Expression | 2.0 cr |
| MIC 609 | Current Topics in Immunology | 2.0 cr |
| MIC 611 | Microbial Genetics (co-offered with GGB) | 2.0 cr |
| MIC 613 | Advanced Virology | 2.0 cr |
| MIC 616 | Fungal Pathogenesis | 2.0 cr |
| MIC 622 | Protein-Nucleic Acid Interaction | 2-3 cr |
| MIC 623 | Current Topics in Global Health Infectious Diseases | 2.0 cr |
| MIC 624 | Bacterial Pathogenesis | 2.0 cr |
| MIC 626 | Inflammation and Cancer | 2.0 cr |
| MIC 627 | Molecular Parasitology | 2.0 cr |
You may also take electives in other departments, but approval from the Graduate Affairs Committee is required.
