IMS Prog. Interdepartmental Sciences
Courses
IMSP 502S Medicine and Society 3.0 Credits
IMS, MBS, and MMS program students take a Medicine & Society course in medical ethics. Issues having a broad social, ethical, and economic impact are selected for review and discussion. These include major research breakthroughs and technological innovations, ethical consideration of biomedical research, major ethical issues related to medicine, medical care delivery systems and their socio-economic impact, demographic changes in U.S. populations, world health issues, social expectations for health care professionals and related subjects. In a lecture format with small and large group discussions, students are presented topics relating to current issues that have a broad impact in the health sciences and health professions.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
IMSP 506S Medical Professionalism and Leadership 3.0 Credits
This course provides an understanding of the US health care environment that students studying to become future health care practitioners will be working in. It is designed to engage thoughtful discussions about the unique challenges and opportunities for the health care workforce of the future. Students will learn about the structure and components of the US health care delivery landscape; how that structure evolved and continues to change over time; what impact the political, economic / business, and legal climates will continue to have on the careers of health care professionals; and who and what influences how health care will be delivered.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
IMSP 513S Medical Biochemistry 6.0 Credits
This course is a study of the basic principles and regulatory processes governing the chemistry of life with a special emphasis on changes that occur as a result of a pathologic condition. The purpose of the course is to provide rigorous training in the biochemical systems and pathways needed to understand clinical medicine. The pace and content-level of the course is designed to be similar to that given to a first year medical student; in fact many of the large group lectures will be taken from an actual first year medical biochemistry course. We will compare and contrast normal biochemical pathways/systems to a wide variety of different pathologic conditions, ranging from lead poisoning to inherited metabolic disorders.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
IMSP 522S Medical Physiology I 3.0 Credits
This course is designed to provide you with the fundamental concepts in human physiology for your future as a healthcare professional. This information will be categorized into seven sections across two semesters. In the spring term Pulmonary, Gastrointestinal, Renal, and Reproductive Physiology will be covered. We will primarily focus on normal physiological function of the major human organ systems but will introduce pathophysiology when it reinforces or highlights a particular physiological mechanism. To accomplish our goal of helping you help yourself learn and integrate this material, we use various approaches including lectures, lecture notes, learning objectives, readings from textbooks and primary sources, group conferences, clinical case examples, and formal self-studies.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
IMSP 523S Medical Physiology II 3.0 Credits
This course is designed to provide you with the fundamental concepts in human physiology for your future career as a health professional. This information will be categorized into seven sections across two semesters. In the fall term Cell & Muscle Physiology, Endocrine Regulation of Body Systems, and Autonomic & Cardiovascular Physiology will be covered, and in the spring term Pulmonary, Gastrointestinal, Renal, and Reproductive Physiology will be covered. We will primarily focus on normal physiological function of the major human organ systems but will introduce pathophysiology when it reinforces or highlights a particular physiological mechanism. To accomplish our goal of helping you help yourself learn and integrate medical physiology, we use various approaches including lectures, lecture notes, etc.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: IMSP 522S [Min Grade: C]
IMSP 542S Medical Microanatomy I 4.0 Credits
This course describes the tissues of the body with an emphasis on the structure of normal cells, their specializations and methods of acting together to form tissues and organs. The normal structure-function relationships at the subcellular, cellular and tissue levels are emphasized. This course provides students with a framework for recognizing and interpreting the changes seen in disease states.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
IMSP 543S Medical Microanatomy II 2.0 Credits
This course describes the tissues of the body with an emphasis on the structure of normal cells, their specializations and methods of acting together to form tissues and organs. The normal structure-function relationships at the subcellular, cellular and tissue levels are emphasized. This course provides students with a framework for recognizing and interpreting the changes seen in disease states.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: IMSP 542S [Min Grade: C]
IMSP 544S Medical Immunology I 2.5 Credits
This course is designed to provide a foundation in the basic concepts of immunology and then illustrate the role of the immune system in clinical medicine. It commences with the important components (cells, tissues, antibodies, immunoglobulins, and cytokines) involved in regulation and host defense against infectious agents. Introductory lectures serve to describe and differentiate between innate mechanisms and adaptive immunity mediated by functional B and T lymphocytes and their products. B cell and T cell activation, regulation, and tolerance will be described. Cellular interactions between cells and the cytokines made by helper T cell subsets and other components of the immune system (B cells, CTL., NK cells, macrophages, eosinophils etc.) will be integrated.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
IMSP 545S Medical Immunology II 1.5 Credit
The Basic Immunology course is designed to provide a foundation in the basic concepts of immunology and then illustrate the role of the immune system in clinical medicine. It commences with the important components (cells, tissues, antibodies, immunoglobulins, and cytokines) involved in regulation and host defense against infectious agents. Introductory lectures serve to describe and differentiate between innate mechanisms and adaptive immunity mediated by functional B and T lymphocytes and their products. B cell and T cell activation, regulation, and tolerance will be described. Cellular interactions between cells and the cytokines made by helper T cell subsets and other components of the immune system (B cells, CTL., NK cells, macrophages, eosinophils etc.) will be integrated.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: IMSP 544S
IMSP 552S Medical Nutrition 1.0 Credit
The goal of the course is to introduce some of the basic concepts of nutrition, to familiarize the student with the complexities of the issues with in-depth considerations of selected nutrients, and to consider the role of nutrition in a few clinical situations. This is intended to be a base upon which to build a more complete understanding of nutrition as topics with nutrition content arises formally and informally in the student's future. It is impossible even to introduce the entirety of the science of Nutrition in so short a time. Hence, a modest number of important topics have been chosen to be studied in detail, in the hope that if the student knows these well, the student will be able to deal more easily with the complexities of other areas.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
IMSP 562S Medical Neuroanatomy 6.0 Credits
This course will provide extensive information regarding structure and function relationships in the central nervous system. It will also provide introductory information on neurophysiology, cellular neuroscience and systems neuroscience topics.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
IMSP T580S Special Topics in Interdepartmental Medical Science 0.0-12.0 Credits
Topics decided upon by faculty will vary within the area of study.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
IMSP T680S Special Topics in Interdepartmental Medical Science 0.0-12.0 Credits
Topics decided upon by faculty will vary within the area of study.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit