Medical Student Courses


Note: If you have questions regarding any of the courses below, please contact the course director listed below each course.

PHAR 201 Physiology (6 Credits)
Course Director: Katherine Kennedy, Ph.D.
Required for medical students, open to graduate students. Cellular, organ system, and applied human physiology. Prerequisite for graduate students: Anat 201 or Phyl 191, or equivalent; Bioc 221 or Phyl 205, or consent of department chair. Concurrent registration: Phyl 212. Open to consortium students only with permission of department chair.

PHAR 201-2 Pharmacology ( 6 Credits and 1 Credit)
Course Director: Katherine Kennedy, Ph.D.
Required for second-year medical students. Lectures, laboratory, and conferences on interaction of drugs and biological systems as a basis for rational disease therapy. Prerequisite: Bioc 201; Phyl 201, 212.

PHAR 501 Readings in Pharmacology ( Fourth Year Elective)
Course Director: Vincent A. Chiappinelli, Ph.D.
Readings, discussions, and/or preparation of report. Student can choose to work with one or more faculty members in the department on a topic of mutual interest.

PHAR 502 Clinical Use of Drugs ( Fourth Year Elective)
Course Director: H. George Mandel, Ph.D.
Discussion of the rational use of drugs in the treatment of disease. Independent reading and study.