The MD-PhD required curriculum for the PhD consists of 72 credit hours from required and elective courses, drawn from these lists.
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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.
You must pass a preliminary examination before you’re formally admitted to candidacy for the PhD.
