Second-Year Medicine
Emerging Concepts in Medicine
The goal of this course is to expose fourth-year medical students to selected
areas of medicine; how these fields are evolving and their anticipated impact
on the practice of medicine in the future.
Content areas:
- Pharmacogenomics. Implications for drug use and development.
- Human Genome Project, its application to Huntington’s disease
and Alzheimer’s disease.
- Signal Transduction related to carcinogenesis.
- Role of translational research in the future development of medicine.
- The role of Clinical Studies in drug development.
- The contribution of genomics to the understanding of disease processes.
- Implications of translational research to the therapetics of obesity.
- The role of new imaging modalities in the analysis of behavior and cognition.
