Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Courses

GPLS 701 Advanced Molecular Biology, Fall, 2007

MBIC 714 Muscle

GPLS 709 Advanced Biochemistry Spring 2007

For Medical Students

The faculty of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology is committed to providing medical students with the training in the molecular and cell sciences that is necessary for their development as productive and modern physicians. Biochemistry, cell biology and genetics play an ever expanding role in clinical medicine, which is well recognized by the road map traced by the National Institutes of Health for improvement of our understanding and treatment of diseases.

Cell and Molecular Biology

The Cell and Molecular Biology course runs nine weeks. All department faculty participate in the course development and instruction. Plenary lectures are scheduled from 8:00 to 10:00 AM. At the same time, Clinical Correlation lectures are presented by clinical faculty who emphasize the importance of molecular and genetic principles for the understanding and treatment of diseases. In some cases, patients are present so that the students can speak directly to them.

10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon is reserved for small group sessions, led by faculty. These sessions vary in format, and include review sessions, case studies, tutorials, problem solving and clinical conferences. All small group sessions are designed to reinforce the basic concepts presented in plenary lectures and specified through reading assignments. Further, they illuminate the clinical relevance of the basic principles in a small group setting under faculty leadership. These advantages are appreciated by the students who consistently give this course favorable ratings: 3.48 average rating in a scale of 1 (poor) and 5 (excellent), in a recent evaluation.

The performance of our students at the National Board of Medical Examiner has been just above the national average for the past five years, both in Biochemistry and Genetics which are the subjects taught in our course. Such performance is slightly higher or equal to that of the same students in other subjects of National Board step1, and may simply reflect the multiple choice test taking ability of our students.

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