Integrated Biomedical Sciences I

Catalog description

This is the first course in a two-year series of courses taken by OMS I and OMS II students. Students participate in an intensive introduction to the foundational sciences in medicine, including anatomy, physiology, microbiology, immunology, pharmacology, embryology, biochemistry, and pathology. The patient presentation model guides students in making connections between the structural and functional foundations of health and wellness . Students examine the differences between health and disease, symptoms, and causative or diagnostic schemas, all within the framework of osteopathic medicine. Each progressive course covers new and additional organ systems and patient presentations and cases, all building on the knowledge acquired in earlier terms to prepare students for competent entry to practice. In this trimester, the biomedical sciences focus on the fundamentals of health and disease. Anatomy examines the development of humans from single cells to the embryo, studies the structures that constitute a cell, explores the components of tissues, and surveys the structure and organization of the human body.