Instructor(s): Elizabeth Joyce, Barbie Klein

With a patient population that is increasingly medically complex, today’s dentist must have a sound understanding of the structure and function of the body. In this course, students will be introduced to human gross anatomy and histology, as well as concepts in general pathology. This provides the foundation for increasingly complex coverage of structure/function relationships that underlie health and disease, with emphasis on those that impact dental care.

Instructor(s): Elizabeth Joyce, Zachary Knight

This course will provide a foundation in the microbiologic, immunologic, and pharmacologic therapies used to treat and prevent infectious diseases, which rank among the leading causes of morbidity and mortality world-wide. Additionally, to better understand how medications like local anesthetics work, this course will provide a foundation in membrane structure, membrane transport, signaling, neurophysiology, and local anesthetics. This latter material will dovetail with the subsequent courses.

Instructor(s): Elizabeth Joyce, Barbie Klein

A contemporary dentist has a solid understanding of medical conditions that will impact the safe delivery of a patients care. In this course, students will learn about the cardiovascular, respiratory, renal, neurology, gastrointestinal, endocrine, and hematologic systems.

Instructor(s): Richard Jordan

This course is a clinically focused didactic course that will cover most soft tissue and bone diseases that may be seen in dental patients. Familiarity with etiology, clinical appearances, and treatment of oral mucosal conditions will be important in advising and managing your patients. Included are primary oral diseases and oral manifestations of systemic diseases, which can range from trivial to life threatening.

Instructor(s): Barbie Klein

This advanced elective allows students to review, refine, and consolidate their knowledge of gross anatomy through cadaveric dissection and literature review of clinical applications related to the area of dissection. Each student, in consultation with an instructor, will determine a dissection area (or areas) of interest and develop an individual plan of study. Assessments include a formal presentation of the final prosection and creation of a teaching and learning resource related to the area.

Instructor(s): Barbie Klein

This course provides advanced training for dental students interested in anatomical sciences. Upper-class students will serve as teaching assistants for 1st-year dental students in virtual gross anatomy laboratory sessions. It provides reinforcement of anatomic knowledge covered in the 1st-year of dental education in preparation for National Board exams. Students also gain experience instructional methods and the opportunity to explore careers in academic dentistry with a teaching component.

Instructor(s): Staff

Research experience in the laboratory of Biomedical Sciences faculty members.

Instructor(s): Elizabeth Crouch

Library research and directed reading under supervision of a member of the faculty.

Instructor(s): Matthew Kutys

Seminar: Weekly seminar series held at Parnassus and live-streamed to the UCSF community, or held virtually via Zoom in some cases. Seminar speakers chosen by a BMS faculty committee after soliciting suggestions from all BMS faculty and students. Seminar topics will include recent experimental findings in human biology and disease.

Instructor(s): Adam Ferguson

This course provides a module-based overview of the biostatistical ideas and tools needed to work as a biomedical researcher. The course includes classes in Unix, Python and R. Other modules cover study designs, summarizing data, distributions, hypothesis testing, using R for biostatistical analysis, performing and reporting reproducible analysis, multiple test correction, and practical considerations for outliers and robust statistics.

Instructor(s): Tomasz Nowakowski

An integrative course emphasizing frontiers in cell and molecular biology of human tissue and organ systems. It is intended to provide a foundation in human anatomy, histology, immunology, physiology and pathobiology for graduate students. Rather than a comprehensive course, selected topics will be discussed in depth. The emphasis may shift each year, depending on which topics are relevant and timely.

Instructor(s): Staff

Dissertation research in a Biomedical Sciences Program approved laboratory.

Instructor(s): Robert Nussbaum, Anita Sil

The scope of this graduate level course in genetics is to convey an understanding of basic genomics and molecular genetics, of the use of genetic animal model systems and of the analytical principles of simple and complex human genetic traits.

Instructor(s): Jeroen Roose, Bassem Al-Sady

The scope of this course is to convey an understanding of the function and organization of molecules and organelles inside and outside the cell and how these are used to construct a multicellular tissue and organ. The course will concentrate on questions related to how cells function, including how they grow, divide and die, and how they move, secrete and communicate.

Instructor(s): Staff

Each course offering will focus on literature of a current important area of Biomedical Sciences research. Students will be expected to read assigned papers critically before class and to present and discuss papers in class. Students will also be expected to write and present a brief research proposal based upon their reading.

Instructor(s): Staff

Lecture/discussion: Practical experience in the methods and problems of teaching human biology and disease. Includes analysis of texts and supporting material, discussion of teaching techniques, preparing for and conducting discussion or laboratory sections, formulating examinations under supervision of instructor.