Medical Sciences

• GMS MS 552: Computers in Medicine
  Provides students with an overview of computer applications and programs encountered in the course of a medical career. Lectures and hands-on experience in a computer laboratory. Applications/programs include database, statistics, expert systems, and computer-assisted instruction.
• GMS MS 571: Directed Studies in Medical Sciences
  Var cr, Fall sem.
• GMS MS 572: Directed Studies in Medical Sciences
  Var cr, Spring sem.
• GMS MS 580: BIOTECH:GENOMIC
  BIOTECH:GENOMIC
• GMS MS 585: Infectious Diseases: Agents, Epidemiology, and Clinical Manifestations
  Graduate Prerequisites: Anatomy and/or Physiology A and B - Infectious Diseases course explores principles of infection, host factors, epidemiology, treatment, prevention, and clinical approach to infection of different organs and systems as well as basic description of medically important infectious agents, i.e. bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites. Upon successful completion of this course students will understand principles of infection, its epidemiology, treatment and prevention, and will have knowledge of major pathogens, including all the significant etiologic agents of newly emerging infections. 4 cr, Spring sem.
• GMS MS 600: Introduction to Leadership for Biomedical Education
  The objective of this introductory leadership course is to focus on the basic principles of personal and interpersonal leadership as they relate to the wide range of biomedical and health science careers that BU graduates may enter. We will explore the areas of voice, vision, emotional intelligence, conflict resolution, teamwork, and more. The material presented in this course will give way to the 5 practices of exemplary leaders that can be applied to any expertise area, but particularly for this course the biomedical research and health sciences areas. Completion of this course will benefit one's career by allowing them to apply leadership practices in order to lead a successful team of researchers or healthcare practitioner. Additionally, in understanding and applying leadership practices participants will become better team members thus encouraging team success. PhD students (especially, but not limited to, those on NIH training grants), masters students, and postdoctoral researchers are encouraged to take this course. 2 cr. Fall sem.
• GMS MS 620: Technology Commercialization
  The subject of this course is the innovative transformation of knowledge into commercial products and services. Cross-disciplinary teams of students will assess real technologies for their commercial potential in terms of licensing and/or for venture development. Offered in alternate years (not offered in 2014-15). 4 cr, Fall sem.
• GMS MS 621: Bench-to-Bedside: Translating Biomedical Innovation from the Laboratory to the Marketplace
  This course covers intellectual property, licensing, and the core aspects of planning, creating, funding, and building new entrepreneurial ventures. Cross-disciplinary teams are formed to evaluate current BU translational research projects and their potential as the basis for a start-up company. 4 cr, Fall sem.
• GMS MS 640: Introduction to Biomedical Information
  This course covers how to find, use, and contribute to biomedical literature while supporting the graduate thesis through lectures and hands-on instruction. Topics include the retrieval, evaluation and management of information, Evidence Based Medicine, and ethical considerations in research. 2 cr, Spring sem.
• GMS MS 642: Current Issues in Assisted Reproduction and Infertility
  A steady rise in infertility has forced medical science to develop Assisted Reproductive techniques. Discussion of cases, media involvement and medical intervention will be part of this course. A comparison of regulations in the US and UK as well as other countries is emphasized. It will look closely at the legal and ethical questions raised by assisted reproduction and infertility as well as look toward the future. Class discussions, student presentations, case analysis and in-class lectures will be supplemented with online activities as well as the composition of a legal brief. Open to all students registered in GMS programs, including health law students. 2 cr, Spring sem.
• GMS MS 650: Machine Learning
  This course description is currently under construction.
• GMS MS 677: STEM TEACHING
  STEM TEACHING
• GMS MS 700: Elementary Biostatistics for the Biomedical Sciences
  Topics include collection, classification, and presentation of descriptive data; the rationale of hypothesis testing; experimental design; t-tests; simple correlation analysis; and analysis of contingency tables. Special attention is directed to the ability to recognize and interpret statistical procedures in articles from current literature. 2 cr, Spring sem.
• GMS MS 701: Clinical Skills in Biomedical Sciences
  This course provides students with an understanding and experience in the fundamental methods and techniques commonly employed in the clinical biomedical sciences. Emphasis is placed on the client/patient relationship, attending and listening skills, cognitive, affective, and behavioral counseling interventions, role-playing activities, and the concerns commonly expressed by beginning biomedical science professionals.2 cr, Fall sem
• GMS MS 703: Medical Neurosciences
  Graduate Prerequisites: consent of instructor - This course will cover, in an integrated fashion, basic information from all of the disciplines needed to gain a comprehensive understanding of the structure and function of the human central nervous system. This course encompasses a wide variety of Neuroscience disciplines, including Neuroanatomy, Neurophysiology, Neurochemistry, Neuropsychology and Clinical Neurology. This reflects the fact that the study of the brain is an extraordinarily broad field, encompassing many issues and disciplines. The course is comprised of approximately 54 lectures, 7 laboratory sessions and 5 electrophysiology discussion sections. 4 cr, Fall sem.
• GMS MS 706: Introduction to Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine
  Prereq: consent of instructor. An overview of the field of medical informatics, combining perspectives from medicine, computer science and social science. Use of computers and information in health care and the biomedical sciences, covering specific applications and general methods, current issues, capabilities and limitations of medical informatics. Medical Informatics studies the organization of medical information, the effective management of information using computer technology, and the impact of such technology on medical research, education, and patient care. The field explores techniques for assessing current information practices, determining the information needs of health care and biomedical research professionals and other workers and patients, developing systems using computer technology, and evaluation of the impact of these systems. The course covers a wide range of medical informatics applications relevant for health care delivery organizations, governmental agencies, biomedical researchers, and commercial entities. The course provides a comprehensive overview of major medical informatics techniques aimed to optimize the use of information in order to improve the quality of health care, reduce cost, provide better education for providers and patients, and to conduct medical research more effectively. 4 cr, on demand.
• GMS MS 710: Transdisciplinary Training Program in Addiction Science
  This introductory course will cover the broad field of addiction with a focus on drug dependence. In one segment of the course, students will learn about the spectrum of drug dependence disorders and modalities for diagnosis and treatment. Another segment will present a wide variety of approaches for studying addiction using the tools of epidemiology, genetics, pharmacology, neurobehavior, and animal models. Emphasis will be placed on transdisciplinary approaches which are essential for understanding and combating addition disorders. In addition, students will be exposed to the impact of addiction on the family and society, and public policy issues addressing the prevention of addiction. 2 cr, Fall sem.
• GMS MS 750: BIOSTATISTICS
  This course description is currently under construction.
• GMS MS 751: Cardiovascular Epidemiology
  Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death in the US and other industrialized nations. With the aging US population, partly due to increasing life expectancy, it is anticipated that more people with attained older age and consequently be at risk for CVD. Despite advances in medical and surgical management of CVD, prognosis after onset of CVD remains poor for many CVD endpoints including heart failure, heart attack, or stroke. Thus, it is important from the clinical and public health perspectives, to devise effective strategies to prevent cardiovascular disease in the first place. This 3-credit course will provide students with fundamental principles of cardiovascular diseases from underlying physiologic mechanisms to current approach to identify people at risk and prevent CVD. 3 cred.
• GMS MS 755: Infectious Disease Epidemiology
  EP 755 will provide a foundation in traditional infectious disease epidemiology, focusing on practical issues in the study and control of infectious diseases in populations. The students will learn epidemiologic methods that are central to the understanding and control of infectious diseases in populations. Specific infections that pose contemporary challenges in public health and have national or global public health impact will be discussed. The course is not intended to review all infectious diseases; rather, the intent of this course is to build an understanding of and an ability to apply the principles of infectious disease epidemiology and infectious disease control. 3 cred.