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BIO 10100 Biological Foundations - 4 credits
Description
Introduction to biology, emphasizing primarily the cell and molecular levels of organization. Topics include characteristics of life, cellular organization and diversity, chemistry of life, bioenergetics, reproduction and early development, and major living groups. The course features in-depth study of selected topics that are foundational for upper level study. Students develop critical thinking and technical skills that are essential for mastering the content areas and being successful in upper level courses. These include: vocabulary skills, critical thinking, collaborative learning, microscopy, collection and handling of scientific data, and elements of scientific investigation.

MED 10200 General Chemistry 1 - 3 credits
Description
This is intermediate course, serving as the First part of the full year chemistry course. Topics covered in a traditional pre-med General Chemistry course but delves more deeply into concepts and principles that will appear in the students' medical career. These involve acid-base behavior, some aspects of thermodynamics, and selected properties of liquids, gases, and solutions among others. Many of the principles and concepts taught are applied to biological systems. Mathematical techniques needed to understand the principles of chemistry are integrated into the course of elementary are integrated into the course and elementary physics concepts are reviewed.

MED 10300 General Chemistry 2 - 4 credits
Description
Building upon the foundational knowledge of MED10200, General Chemistry I, this intermediate course serves as the second part of the year long course and delves deeper into concepts crucial for medical students. Topics include acid-base behavior, advanced aspects of thermodynamics and kinetics and electrochemistry. The course also explores the properties of liquids, gases, and solutions. Emphasizing the application of chemical principles to biological systems, students gain a comprehensive understanding of how chemistry interfaces with biology, preparing them for the rigorous demands of Organic Chemistry, Biochemistry and medical education.

MED 10100 Professional Foundations - 0 credits
Description
MED10100 is focused on individual student development. Students are challenged to enhance their self-esteem and personal development, enhance their intellectual potential, understand their moral and academic responsibilities, reinforce their wellness habits, and appreciate the need for diversity and inclusion in our SoM community and society at large. Several self-reflective writings required.

MED 11209 - Intro to Population Health - 3 credits
Description
This course is the first Population Health course. Its initial goal is to explore population health and its importance for medicine as it provides students with opportunities to understand health and disease beyond the narrowly defined biomedical realm. Both historical and current perspectives will be presented. Simultaneously, students will engage in the practice of self-reflection using the techniques of Narrative Medicine to become increasingly aware of the lens they bring to bear on this study of individual and public health. Students will attend lectures and engage in exercises that increase their knowledge of social determinants of disease and health outcomes as well as diverse ways in which different populations explain those experiences of health. Students will study theoretical and applied work from the fields of sociology, anthropology, and psychology to understand the indices of class, communities, social mobility, and culture. Intervention approaches will focus on structural interventions and community and political action. Finally students will put all of this together by exploring the relationship between socio-economics, culture and health by gathering individual stories of illness that reflect these greater social determinants, and reflecting upon the experience of witnessing all these narratives in broad and narrow perspectives at once.

PHYS 10300 - Physics for the Health Sciences- 4 credits
Description
This introductory course explores mechanics, heat, waves, fluids, thermodynamics, electromagnetism, optics, and some topics in modern physics. The course is specially designed for the CUNY School of Medicine Students. It will provide them with an understanding of the principles and the application of Physics to biomedical and health aspects of the human body. It will guide and enable them to perform calculations and solve numerical problems related to health sciences. The selection of topics is based on the appropriateness of the life sciences without limiting basic concepts found in all introductory physics courses.

MED 20300 - Bio-Organic Chemistry - 5 credits
Description
This is a course in which some aspects of a traditional one-year Organic Chemistry course are covered with an emphasis on reaction mechanisms, and stereochemistry. The organic chemistry is immediately applied to the appropriate class of biological molecules. So in effect, we are introducing a more biochemistry-oriented organic chemistry. Topics such as carbohydrates, carboxylic acids and lipids, etc. will be discussed. This integration of organic and biochemistry will diffuse the boundary between the two areas and will better prepare the students for entry into the Molecules-to-Cells course.

MED 22310 - Introduction to Epidemiology - 4 credits
Description
The purpose of this course is to introduce CUNY School of Medicine medical students to the principles of epidemiology, and the use of the medical research literature. The course is taught in conjunction with Introduction to Biostatistics.


MED 20000 - Introduction to Human Genetics - 3 credits
Description
This course emphasizes principles and methods of molecular genetics as they relate to human variation and disease, using specific genetic disorders and genetically-determined traits to illustrate key points. Topics include chromosomal and genomic structural variation, Mendelian inheritance and monogenic traits, non-Mendelian inheritance, complex genetic disorders, cancer genetics, and pharmacogenetics.

MED 22409 - Population Health and Community Health Assessment - 3 credits
Description
This course is the third Population Health course.  Its goal is to continue exploring population health and its importance for medicine, building from theory and practice presented in Sociomedical Sciences and using the literature, which the students learned to master in Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Different perspectives and applications of population health in New York City will be presented through seminars led by experts, including representatives from the New York City Department of Health and Mental Health (NYCDOHMH). The course focuses on providing students with an opportunity to practice descriptive epidemiology/biostatistics by completing a Community Health Assessment (CHA). Students will learn about the purpose and procedure behind the CHA, and using census and NYCDOHMH data, will complete a CHA for their home neighborhood. Students will expand on their SPSS skills as well.

MED 22311 - Introduction to Biostatistics - 4 credits
Description
The purpose of this course is to introduce CUNY School of Medicine medical students to the principles of biostatistics. The course is taught in conjunction with Introduction to Epidemiology.

MED 24409 - Evaluation in Healthcare Settings - 6 credits
Description
This course is the fourth Population Health course.  Its goal is to continue exploring population health and its importance for medicine, building from prior theory and practice, and methods courses. The focus of this course will be to discuss how population health and primary care intersect in the health care setting, and for students to explore how social and economic factors that predict health and disease patterns may also predict patterns of health services, and how access to health services influences health outcomes and population health statistics. The course is developed to provide students with an opportunity to expand and practice analytic epidemiology/biostatistics skills by completing a health services research project in small student groups. Data analysis skills that will be introduced include regression and survival models. Projects will be developed in concert with community health center leadership that will allow students to practice developing research questions, collecting/compiling data, analyzing and interpreting data, and presenting results. Simultaneously, the students will experience acting as part of a clinical team to use population health and epidemiology skills to address questions related to health care access and delivery. Students will expand on their SPSS skills as well.

MED 20400 - Medical Biochemistry
Description
This course covers topics in Medical Biochemistry for pre-medical students in the CSOM undergraduate curriculum.

MED 30400 - Functional Histology and Cell Biology
Description
This course covers topics in Functional Histology and Cell Biology, and a small segment of related pathology for pre-medical students in the CSOM undergraduate curriculum. Enrollment Requirements: Biomed Science Students ONLY PRE: MED 20400. Requirement Designation: Flexible Core - Scientific World.

MED 32509 - U.S. Healthcare Systems and Policy - 3 credits
Description
This course is the fifth Population Health course. Its goal is to continue exploring population health and its importance for medicine, building from prior theory and practice courses and methods courses. The focus of this course is to provide students with the knowledge and skills to critically examine how the U.S. health care system and policy-making apparatus influence health in the U.S. In lectures and small groups, students study the structure of the health system and medical insurance, and the roles of public health, primary care, and medicine in influencing health. How social factors influence the access, cost and quality of healthcare are discussed, with particular emphasis on their relevance to underserved, low income, and minority populations. In concert with skills acquired in other population health courses, students completing this course will emerge with a basic understanding of approaches and resources for health services research.

MED 37601 -Fundamentals of Organ Systems, Part 1 - 3 credits
Description
This course covers topics in membrane transporters and ion balance, pharmacology, synaptic mechanisms, and neurophysiology.

MED 30000 - Introduction to Biomedical Ethics - 3 credits
Description
This introductory course will expose Medical students to biomedical ethics, and introduce applicable philosophical principles and methods. These foundations will be applied to analyze and clarify ethical problems that arise in relation to the practice of Medicine, and will provide the basis for the continued application of fundamental concepts, theories and methods of Biomedical Ethics in subsequent courses including those in Practice of Medicine, Population Health, Organ Systems, and Clerkship Rotations

MED 33609 - Clinical Anatomy - 5 credits
Description
The objective of the integrated Human Gross Anatomy and Human Development course is to provide students with hand on experience in the study of the structure and function of the human body, an understanding of relevant aspects of human development and its abnormalities, and the value of imaging techniques in the visualization of the human body. Structure at the macroscopic level is explored through lectures in gross anatomy and embryology coupled with detailed regional dissections. Students are expected to examine anatomic relationships leading to an integration of anatomic function and embryo-fetal development under normal and pathologic conditions.

MED 37602 - Fundamentals of Organ Systems, Part 2 - 9 credits
Description
This is the second part of a course that explores the basic structure and function of human tissues and organs in normal and disease states. First, we explore the interaction of drugs and chemicals with normal cells, tissues, and organs of the body and will examine the mechanisms of action and side effects and toxicity of drugs used to treat human diseases. Second, we explore how to identify different types of infectious bacterial, viral, fungal, and parasitic organisms and will examine the transmission and epidemiology, pathogenesis, virulence factors, host defense mechanisms, treatment and prophylactic strategies with regard to these organisms. Lastly, we examine the human immune system.