Module: 1
Sponsoring Program: BMS
Administrator: Priscilla Pereira

STUDY LIST INFORMATION
Course Number: BMS 270
Course Name: Introduction to Human Biology and Medicine (GEMS)
Units: 3
Grading Option: S/U
Course Director: Scott Kogan

MORE COURSE INFORMATION
Other faculty: TBA
Date: March 30 - April 17
Schedule: Mon through Fri, ~45 hours of class time between 9am and 4pm
Maximum Class Size: no max
This Minicourse will be offered online. Instructions for ZOOM meetings will be sent by the course director.

Course Description: This minicourse is designed to introduce graduate students in the life sciences to basic human tissue and organ biology, and to its dysregulation in disease. Each unit will be taught by research and clinical scientists and center on an organ or organ system. We will explore human anatomy and physiology within these systems, and illustrate how this knowledge, when integrated with molecular studies, can illuminate disease pathogenesis and treatment. With this knowledge, along with insight from patient interviews, you will be better positioned to recognize clinical problems in need of solutions and identify ways to connect your basic science research to these unmet medical needs.  (This counts as two minicourses towards the BMS student requirement.)

From Rachel DeBarge, 2nd year BMS student:

"This minicourse was a great way to learn broadly about organ systems and human disease. As a biomedical researcher, it was incredibly valuable to have physicians put diseases we study in a clinical context. Also, being able to hear from patients first-hand about how therapeutic advances have helped them, and the work that still needs to be done, put an important perspective on my own research."

From previous students:

“This course was awesome, I enjoyed all of it, thought it had a great balance between basic anatomy and physiology, clinical diagnostics and therapeutics, and patient interviews.”

“The fact that so many different organ systems were addressed worked well for me. Although I have already chosen my thesis topic, it was still useful to learn about the anatomy and physiology of various systems from clinicians and doctors.”