Medical Physiology.

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 human physiology covering foundational concepts, the structure and function of major physiological systems, the integration and regulation of such systems, and application of physiological concepts to understand mechanisms of human disease. 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.