Medical Sciences
List of Courses

GMS MS 506S Clinical Laboratory Genetics
Prereq: Biology or Genetics course. Teaches the important principles applied in receiving patient samples, completing appropriate laboratory cytogenetic and molecular genetic testing for human genetic disease or identity, and interpreting these disease related results. Class includes a tour through the laboratory, demonstrations, and presentations. Lebo. Summer sem, 4 cr.

GMS MS 552 Presenting Data in Biomedicine
Prereq: some computer skills and basic understanding of the Internet. Presents a survey of how personal computers and online computing resources can be used as a communication tool in a medical/biotechnical research environment. Topics include communications design, acquisition and presentation of experimental data, online resources, the role of the Internet and the Web as research tools, and copyright issues. Hands-on laboratory assignments and projects include Web site creation (including basic HTML programming), slide show creation, and Inter-net searches on specified topics. Abruzzese. 4 cr, 2nd sem.

GMS MS 610 Ethico-legal Issues of Bioscience

Prereq:  Consent of Instructor.  This course examines evolving ethical and legal issues in the biosciences.  Students will study existing laws and legal cases pertaining to topics such as genetic testing, gene therapy, and forensic uses of DNA.  Class discussions, student presentations, case analyses and in-class lectures will be supplemented with online activities as well as the composition of a legal brief.  Yashon.  4 cr, 1st sem.

GMS MS 700 Elementary Biostatistics
Topics include collection, classification, and presentation of descriptive data; the rationale of hypothesis testing; experimental design; t-tests; simple correlation analysis; and analysis of contingency tables. Special attention is directed to the ability to recognize and interpret statistical procedures in articles from current literature. Killiany. 2 cr, 1st & 2nd sem.

GMS MS 703 Neuroscience
Prereq: consent of instructor. Integrated treatment of anatomy and physiology of the nervous system. In anatomy classes, brains and spinal cords are dissected and microscope slides examined to study cytology and projections of neurons. Other practical classes and demonstrations cover physiology, neurology, opthamology and otolaryngology. Sandell. 4cr, 2nd sem.

GMS MS 706 Introduction to Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine

Preq:  consent of instructor.  An overview of the field of medical informatics, combining perspectives from medicine, computer science, and social science.  Use of computers and information in health care and the biomedical sciences, covering specific applications and general metnods, current issues, capabilities and limitations of medical informatics.  Medical Informatics studies the organization of medical information, the effective management of information using computer technology, and the impact of such technology on medical research, education, and patient care.  The field explores techniques or assessing current information practices, determining the information needs of health care and biomedical research professionals and other workers and patients, developing systems using computer technology, and evaluation of the impact of these systems.  The course covers a wide range of medical informatics applications relevant for health care delivery organizations, governmental agencies, biomedical researchers, and commercial entitites.  The course provides a comprehensive overview of major medical informatics techniques aimed to optimize the use of information in order to improve the aquality of health care, reduce cost, provide better education for providers and patients, and to conduct medical research more effectively.  Bickmore.  4 cr, 2nd sem.

GMS MS 711 Research Seminar in Medical Informatics 

Prereq:  consent of instructor.  The goal of this course will be to provide students with experience in the reading and evaluation of recent scientific publications that may be pertinent to the development and assessment of computer applications for health care and biomedicine.  The course will be in a seminar format.  It will consist of the evaluation of assigned readings of recent literature that may be relevant to the field of medical informatics that might be expected to lead to further computer use in medicine and biology.  This format will provide an opportunity to learn to critically evaluate medical informatics literature and to develop oral presentation skills essential to function as a leader in medical informatics projects.  Bickmore.  2 cr, 1st sem.

GMS MS 753 Cell Biology
Prereq: consent of instructor. Morphology of organelles, biochemical consideration of receptors, responses to extra-cellular matrices, vesicles within the cell, and secretion; regulation of gene expression. Behavior of cells in culture and the cell cycle. Cellular differentiation, embryogenesis, biochemistry of fertilization, cell movement, and control of cell differentiation. Fine. 4 cr, 1st sem.

GMS MS 781 Introduction to Human Genetics
Prereq: general biology, genetics, biochemistry, cell biology, molecular genetics or the equivalent, and consent of instructor. Teaches the basic principles and research methods of human genetics, including the study of genes at the molecular, chromosomal, organisimal, and population levels. Emphasis is on classical genetic examples in human disease. Applications of the technology in gene identification, genetic testing, and forensic science are presented. Farrer 4 cr, 1st sem.

GMS MS 783,784 Molecular Basis of Neurologic Diseases
Molecular mechanisms of stroke, multiple sclerosis, Huntington's disease, Alzheimer's disease, amyotropic lateral sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, and neoplasia reconsidered. Fundamentals and current research of molecular biology are reviewed. Current publication seminar discussion is held with student participation. Distinguished guest speakers give keynote lectures monthly. Abraham 2 cr each sem, year course.