19 courses with the subject BMS, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
This three-credit hour course provides students an understanding of the components of the United States’ healthcare system and Graduate Academic Catalog 2025-26
MATHS Core Total: 14 *Choose a minimum of 4 elective hours Secondary Education Track* Credits
The content of this course is derived from the Healthy People Curriculum Task Force convened by the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research (APTR). The task force included representatives of seven health professional education associations representing allopathic and osteopathic medicine, nursing and nurse practitioners, dentistry, pharmacy, and physician assistants. All topics within this course fall under the following three framework components as defined by the task force: 1.) Foundations of Population Health, 2.) Clinical Preventive Services and Health Promotion, and 3.) Clinical Practice and Population Health.
This course includes advanced principles of the biochemistry, anatomy and physiology related to nutrition and focuses on the role of nutrition science in an individual’s diet and health. Topics include macro- and micronutrients; digestion, absorption, and metabolism; body composition and weight management; vegetarianism; chronic disease; life cycle nutritional needs; food safety; and environmental issues. An evaluation of personal dietary habits using current dietary guidelines and nutritional assessment methods will also be completed to help students assess their own nutritional health.
Secondary Education Total Required: 4 5 6 | Page College Education Track* Credits
This course emphasizes the principles and concepts of immunology as they pertain to clinical medicine, with a combination of didactic lectures and case-based and problem- based scenarios. Topics include cells and organs of the immune system, B and T cell development and activation, major histocompatibility complex, antigen processing and presentation, antibody diversity, tolerance, complement, cytokines, inflammation, hypersensitivity, vaccines, autoimmunity and immunodeficiency diseases, and host-pathogen interactions.
This course will focus on aspects of genetics that are pertinent to the practicing physician. Topics will include Mendelian genetics, molecular genetics, cytogenetics, clinical genetics, population genetics, epigenetics, genetic testing, and genetic counseling. A portion of the course will be devoted to the future of medical genetics through several topics related to precision medicine.
This course focuses on the underlying basic principles of human genetics as they apply to clinical medicine. The course contains basic concepts in genetics, including concepts of genes, traits, 8 2 | Page and inheritance; molecular aspects of gene expression, including DNA, RNA, and protein metabolism; the overall organization of the human genome, including gene organization, repetitive elements, and human variation; inheritance patterns for disease, including complicating factors; and clinical aspects of epigenetics, cancer, population genetics, pharmacogenetics, gene therapy, and genetic screening programs. The student will be introduced to a number of genetic diseases with a focus on the genetic principles underlying those diseases. This course is taught in a lecture-based format, and the student is tested through written or computer examinations.
Survey of Community Health is designed to be an introduction to the discipline of community health with an emphasis on current delivery systems and practices. A concerted focus will be to provide future physicians with a working knowledge of such systems and how to steer patients toward programs that provide intended therapeutic benefits. Current issues and alternate or proposed solutions and programs will be discussed.
College Education Total Required: 4 Required Education Courses Credits
Students will choose an international or Appalachian setting and spend 40+ hours interacting with populations who have limited access to basic health care due to remote site location, poverty, or other factors. Students choosing an international experience will participate in a mission trip focusing on health education and prevention among children and/or community health family surveys. Students choosing an Appalachian experience will be involved in public health, adult health education, and/or a free clinic. Journal reflections and case study reports will comprise a portion of this course.
This course focuses on the gross anatomy of the human body with special emphasis on anatomical relationships, form/function relationships, and how changes in anatomical forms can lead to disease states. Material is presented in a systems-based format. Surface anatomy, cross-sectional anatomy, and various imaging modalities are utilized with laboratories also utilizing plastinated cadaveric material and digital anatomical models.
The course provides an interdisciplinary approach to the understanding of the nervous system. It integrates various disciplines such as neurophysiology, neuroanatomy, and neuroendocrinology. The ultimate objectives and goals of the Neuroscience course are to provide an understanding of the structure, function, and dysfunction of the nervous system. This course also establishes a foundation for further clinical evaluation of normal and pathological functioning of the nervous system. Within the neuroscience lectures, emphasis will be placed on teaching those aspects that are of particular use in the clinical environment and that will help to understand the pathophysiological mechanisms of the neurological syndromes. Correlations will be made to illustrate the relevance of the knowledge to the practice of medicine.
This course is designed to provide essential concepts in medical physiology for a future career in medicine and medical research. This information will be categorized into seven sections within one semester. Cell and muscle physiology, autonomic and endocrine regulation of body systems, cardiovascular, pulmonary, gastrointestinal, renal, and reproductive physiology will be covered. We will focus on normal physiological function of the major human organ systems and will discuss pathophysiology when it reinforces or highlights a particular physiological Graduate Academic Catalog 2025-26
Neuroscience will begin with a foundation of cellular physiology including the topics of membrane physiology, the ionic and molecular basis of resting and action potentials, synaptic transmission, the physiology of neurotransmitters, and post- synaptic response and cellular signaling. This will build to the topics and motor, sensory, and cognitive pathways with an emphasis on the associated anatomy and physiology. Finally, organs of special senses and their associated pathways will be discussed. Throughout the course, particular emphasis will be placed on topics of clinical relevance.
Students will learn the structure, morphology, classification, isolation, identification, physiology, and life cycle of viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites. The course will focus on cell biology genetics, virology, bacteriology, mycology, parasitology, and interactions with mammalian hosts. Examples will be given from medically important organisms with reference to the diseases they cause, their epidemiology, and laboratory diagnosis. Minimal detail will be given to the clinical aspect of microbial or parasitic diseases or to the host’s immune response during an infection.
This course provides descriptions of common clinical imaging modalities and their associated applications. The content is organized by anatomical region, and includes a survey of radiologically salient anatomy, interpretation of clinical imaging, and a review of common pathology evaluated in radiological settings. Software for evaluating multiplanar volumetric scans is utilized to assess computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging. Technical instruction on image acquisition in ultrasonography is also provided. 8 3 | Page MASTER OF HEALTH SCIENCE
BMS 5512 Field Experience or BMS 5713 2 Neuroscience with Clinical Correlations
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