Graduation Requirements
Students must complete the following coursework to graduate: core courses, laboratory rotation and research area-specific courses. Students then transition to thesis research.
Course Curriculum
First year of study
Core courses
- GCC - 506 Biomedical Ethics (Credits: 1)
- GCC - 516 Cell and Molecular Biology (Credits: 7)
- GCC - 546 Principles of Biostatistics I (Credits: 2)
- GCC - 548 Bioinformatics (Credits: 1)
Laboratory rotation
- GCC - 530 Laboratory Rotations I (Credits: 1-9)
Research area-specific courses
For graduation, students will need to select one of the following introductory courses:
- BMC - 500 Musculoskeletal Biology (Credits: 3)
- GCC - 519 Intro to Neuroscience (Credits: 3)
- GCC - 611 Cancer Biology I (Credits: 3)
- IMM - 507 Basic Immunology I (Credits: 3)
Year 2: Research Experience
Year two will be determined by the research. The student’s assessment at this time is related to the following learning outcomes:
- Acquisition of research skills, collection of data and data analysis, as well as interpretation of results related to research addressing original research question.
- Capable of independent critical thinking and writing, as well as proposing, performing and effectively presenting their research.
- Working collaboratively with other scientists, physicians and health care professionals, to provide and obtain feedback concerning the approach to research problems, data analysis and implications of research.
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