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Why are people born near the equator more likely to be lactose intolerant? How does the legacy of the Irish Potato Famine impact the obesity epidemic today? Why haven’t deadly genetic diseases like Tay-Sachs become extinct through natural selection? By exploring these and many other questions, this course invites students to discover the complex interplay of biological and socio-cultural factors in human health and disease.
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The disciplines of Biochemistry and Cell Biology address the biological processes of living organism from different perspectives but together they help scientists gain an understanding of complex processes that occur in living organisms. Unraveling these pathways has allowed the approach to human diseases to be more specific because it can be addressed at the molecular level.
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Public Health in the Age of H1N1 is an introductory course on the core competencies of the field public health. It is geared for students interested in medicine or health care, and it will offer an overview of public health education as well as highlight potential opportunities for a career in public health. The curriculum will first focus on an overview of the five core disciplines of public health as outlined by the Association of Schools of Public Health (Social and Behavioral Sciences, Health Policy and Management, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Global Health and Environmental Health Sciences). Other key lectures will address issues in infectious disease, cancer and other chronic diseases, and current topics in the media related to public health.
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This course is geared toward students who are completing their Sophomore, Junior or Senior year and may be considering a career in Medicine. It will cover some aspects of college requirements as well as Medical School curriculum. It will also focus on some basic medical issues of today, such as preventive medicine, heart disease, HIV, alcohol abuse. And there will be some "hands on experience" on day to day issues, patient care, and nursing home care. You will have the opportunity to spend some time with practicing physicians and get a closer look at their professional lives and what it is like to practice medicine today. Enrollment limited to 20 students.
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With the proposed U.S. healthcare reforms making front-page news each day, it is becoming difficult to think about medicine without understanding the involvement of law. This course will bring students on a tour of some of the most influential ways that the law has intervened to change medical practice and research. Course meetings will examine topics such as the overall structure of the healthcare system, the duty to treat patients, informed consent to treatment, medical malpractice law, the right to refuse medical treatment, end-of-life care, physician-assisted suicide, organ donation, abortion, stem cell research, patented drugs, laws governing medical research, and public health measures such as vaccines and quarantines.
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Ethics seek to define the gap in society between what CAN be done and what SHOULD be done. Ethical frameworks are constantly changing and adapting based upon the prevailing conditions and attitudes in the society and the emergence of new ethical dilemmas, often posed by the development of new technologies. This has been particularly important in the development of medical bioethics. This course will use cinematic tools such as character and plot development, scene setting, and narrative framing to examine a range of principles and topics in contemporary medical ethics. The aim of this course is to define the technology and philosophy that underlies societal and medical postures on ethical dilemmas and to foster discussion and debate concerning these stances and how they have changed in the past and might change in the future. We will also examine real life medical case studies to highlight how ethics relates to practice.
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Biochemistry is the study of chemical processes in biology. It addresses how the precise structures and functions of many different proteins interact to carry out complex biological processes. Understanding these processes in detail in healthy organisms allows us to determine what has gone wrong in diseased organisms. This, in turn, gives us direction to design drugs that attack many of these diseases at a molecular level.
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Two key subjects required by premed undergraduates for medical/dental/veterinary school acceptances are organic chemistry and biochemistry. This course will give students the foundation that will enable them to do well in both of these undergraduate courses.
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You feel grass under your feet and smell the fragrance of flowers in the air. Hearing birdsong, you look up to see a robin jumping from branch to branch in a nearby tree. How do shifting patterns of light, vibrations in the air, molecules floating into your nose and changes in the pressure on your skin result in these experiences? How does all this information reach our brain, and how is it put together into familiar sensations? In this class we will explore how everything you feel is transformed into electrical signals that form a unique code that the nervous system can interpret and process. Through hands-on experimentation we will test how our senses relay information about the outside world and make "reality" come together in our minds.
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The study of the brain as a biological structure is very different from the study of any other organ in the body. The cells that make up the brain, neurons, share many of the same fundamental characteristics with other cells of the body (exocytosis, manufacturing of proteins, metabolism, growth). However the functions of these cells result in products that are quite unique such as coordinated movements, visual perception, learning and memory, emotion, appreciation for music, and intelligence. Many have described the brain as being greater than the sum of its parts. We will start by using basic biological concepts to study the parts - nerve cells. We will then build toward an understanding of how these neurons function together to produce complex and fascinating behaviors.
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