The MD-PhD required curriculum for the PhD consists of 72 credit hours from required and elective courses, drawn from these lists.
| ANA 500 | Anatomy | 6.0 cr |
| 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 606 | Neuroscience I | 4.3 cr |
| 36.0 cr |
| BIO 600 | Problems in Biology (PhD Qualifying Exam) | 3.0 cr |
| BIO 680 | Graduate Research | 1.0-6.0 cr |
| BIO 700 | Thesis | 1.0 cr |
| MST 601 | MD-PhD Seminar | 1.0 cr |
| 8 credits from the following: | ||
| BIO 500 | Bioinformatics | 4.0 cr |
| BIO 501 | Advanced Biological Chemistry | 4.0 cr |
| BIO 504 | Advanced Molecular Genetics | 4.0 cr |
| BIO 502 | Advanced Cell and Developmental Biology I | 4.0 cr |
| BIO 505 | Advanced Cell and Developmental Biology II | 4.0 cr |
| BIO 513 | Advanced Physiology | 4.0 cr |
| BIO 517 | Advanced Neurobiology | 4.0 cr |
| BIO 522 | Protein-Nucleic Acid Interactions | 3.0 cr |
| BIO 567 | Molecular Immunology | 3.0 cr |
