Courses of Instruction

Keck School of Medicine of USC

Courses

Academic Medicine

• •  ACMD 501 Introduction to Academic Medicine Worldwide
• •  ACMD 502 Becoming a Leader in Academic Medicine Worldwide
• •  ACMD 503 Leading Change in Academic Medical Centers
• •  ACMD 511 Competencies in Academic Medicine and Health I
• •  ACMD 512 Competencies in Academic Medicine and Health II
• •  ACMD 513 Professionalism in Academic Medicine and Health
• •  ACMD 514 Accreditation and Program Evaluation in Academic Medicine
• •  ACMD 591 Designing Research on Innovations in Academic Medicine
• •  ACMD 592 Implementing Research on Innovation in Academic Medicine
• •  ACMD 593 Foundations of Academic Writing
• •  ACMD 598 Fieldwork: Designing Innovations for the Health Professions
• •  ACMD 604 Supporting the Educational Enterprise in Academic Medicine
• •  ACMD 605 Faculty Development for Health Sciences Faculty Educators
• •  ACMD 615 Maintenance of Competence in the Health Professions
• •  ACMD 621 Capstone Portfolio for the Master of Academic Medicine

Cancer Biology and Genomics

• •  CBG 504 Molecular Biology of Cancer
• •  CBG 580 Topics in Cancer (Epi)Genomics
• •  CBG 790 Research
• •  CBG 794a Doctoral Dissertation
• •  CBG 794b Doctoral Dissertation
• •  CBG 794c Doctoral Dissertation
• •  CBG 794d Doctoral Dissertation
• •  CBG 794z Doctoral Dissertation

Interdepartmental Medicine

• •  INTD 500 Ethics and Accountability in Biomedical Research
• •  INTD 501 Recent Advances in Vision Science
• •  INTD 504 Molecular Biology of Cancer
• •  INTD 522 Infection and Host Responses
• •  INTD 531 Cell Biology
• •  INTD 535 Continuing Introduction to Clinical Medicine for MD/PhD Students
• •  INTD 537 The Structure of Scientific Revolutions in Molecular Biology
• •  INTD 549 Protein Chemistry — Structure and Function
• •  INTD 550 Introduction to Pathology
• •  INTD 551 Pathobiology of Disease
• •  INTD 555 Biochemical and Molecular Bases of Disease
• •  INTD 561 Molecular Biology
• •  INTD 567 Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology
• •  INTD 570 Current Topics in Cellular Homeostasis
• •  INTD 571 Biochemistry
• •  INTD 572 Medical Physiology I
• •  INTD 573 Medical Physiology II
• •  INTD 574 Medical Biology Seminar
• •  INTD 575 Interdisciplinary Research Presentations
• •  INTD 577 Writing in the Biomedical and Biological Sciences
• •  INTD 596 Internship for Curricular Practical Training
• •  INTD 600 Student Research Presentation
• •  INTD 620 Medical Students Elective Program
• •  INTD 621a Introduction to Clinical Medicine (ICM) for THE
• •  INTD 621b Introduction to Clinical Medicine (ICM) for THE
• •  INTD 622L Pre-clinical System Block for Health, Technology and Engineering
• •  INTD 630 Viral Oncology
• •  INTD 650 Stem Cell Biology and Medicine
• •  INTD 685 Bioinformatics in Genome Analysis
• •  INTD 790 Research

Medical Education

• •  MDED 501 Narrative Medicine I: Witnessing, Listening, Reflecting
• •  MDED 502 Narrative Medicine II: Methods and Pedagogy
• •  MDED 503 Creative Writing and Its Applications in Narrative Medicine
• •  MDED 504 Research Methods in Narrative Medicine
• •  MDED 505 Intersubjectivity: Lived Bodies/Relational Selves
• •  MDED 510 Narrative Ethics: Illness, Disability, Equity and Community
• •  MDED 511 Immigrants, Illness and Narrative Medicine
• •  MDED 590 Directed Research
• •  MDED 593 Narrative Medicine Capstone

Medical Biology

• •  MEDB 790 Research
• •  MEDB 794a Doctoral Dissertation
• •  MEDB 794b Doctoral Dissertation
• •  MEDB 794c Doctoral Dissertation
• •  MEDB 794d Doctoral Dissertation
• •  MEDB 794z Doctoral Dissertation

Medical Sciences (200–400)

• •  MEDS 220 Preparation for the Clinical Experience
• •  MEDS 250 Introduction to Healthcare Innovation
• •  MEDS 260 Challenges in the Forefront of Biomedical Ethics
• •  MEDS 261 Human Health and Technology
• •  MEDS 280 The History of Medicine: a Doctor’s Perspective
• •  MEDS 300g Statistical Methods for Biomedical Research
• •  MEDS 315 Human Anatomy, Physiology, and the Technology of Medicine
• •  MEDS 320 Human Cadaveric Anatomy
• •  MEDS 330 Bionics: Solutions to Enable the Disabled
• •  MEDS 335 Human Development: From Stem to Sternum
• •  MEDS 340 The Brain in Health and Disease
• •  MEDS 350 Neurochemistry of Addiction: Drugs, Brain, and Behavior
• •  MEDS 355 Skeletal Biology and Pathology: No Bones About It
• •  MEDS 360 Bench to Bedside: Application of the Basic Sciences
• •  MEDS 362 Analytics for Health Innovators
• •  MEDS 370 Organ Failure: Non-Communicable Chronic Disease
• •  MEDS 380 Stem Cells: Fact and Fiction
• •  MEDS 390 Special Problems
• •  MEDS 420 Clinical Pediatrics
• •  MEDS 425 Medical Examiner-Coroner: Investigating Death
• •  MEDS 440 Introduction to Surgical Principles
• •  MEDS 445 Cancer: Introduction to Oncology in the Modern Era
• •  MEDS 450 OB/GYN: The Medicine and Surgery of Reproduction
• •  MEDS 455 Integrative Health Care
• •  MEDS 460 Emergency Health Care
• •  MEDS 463 Evidence Based Medicine for Health Innovators
• •  MEDS 464 Mining Health Data Through Machine Learning
• •  MEDS 465 Wilderness and Survival Medicine
• •  MEDS 490x Directed Research in Biomedical Science
• •  MEDS 499 Special Topics

Medical Sciences (500)

• •  MEDS 500 Basic Concepts in Global Health
• •  MEDS 501 Critical Issues in Global Health