Medical Biochemistry.

Catalog description

Semester course; 4 lecture hours. 4 credits. Enrollment is restricted to students in the pre-medical graduate health sciences certificate program. The course offers an in-depth study of biochemistry covering the structure and function of biomolecules, metabolic pathways and human disease clinical correlations. A principal learning objective is for students to achieving a facile conceptual understanding of the material rather than to practice rote memorization. This is a graduate-level course that is designed to help students prepare for professional school admissions tests (i.e., MCAT, DAT, etc.) and gain experience with the academic rigor and rapid pace of a first-year professional (i.e., dental or medical) school curricula and to implement test-taking and study pace is therefore deliberately rapid and the amount of material covered large. To excel in the course, students may need to learn and implement robust study, test-taking and time management strategies that are distinct from those used in undergraduate courses.