Course Requirements

Course Requirements

Note: Please refer to the academic calendar for course requirements in your program. This page is in the process of being discontinued.

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Please visit the MDCV Program Description in the Graduate Calendar for further details

The minimum course requirement is normally two half courses for an MSc, and three half courses for a PhD program. At least one course for an MSc program and two courses for a PhD program should be from the list of recommended MDCV graduate courses. The amount of course work is determined by the student’s supervisory committee; however it also must meet the program’s minimum requirements:

(a) Students holding a completed BSc degree entering the PhD program are required to successfully complete a minimum of three half courses
(b) Students holding a completed MSc degree in the same area of study entering the PhD program are required to complete a minimum of one half course provided that a minimum of two half courses were completed in their MSc program
(c) Students transferring from the MSc program to the PhD program are required to complete a minimum of one additional half course.
(d) Students holding a completed MSc degree in an unrelated field of studies entering the PhD program are required to complete a minimum of three half courses unless otherwise agreed by the student’s supervisory committee.

Requests for Directed Study courses (MDSC 755) submitted to the Associate Dean (Graduate Sciences Education) will be evaluated by the MDCV Program Director prior to approval.  Normally students will be permitted to include only one MDSC 755 Directed Studies course as part of their academic course requirement. The actual amount of course work is determined by the supervisory committee (see above) and approved by the Program Director.

Seminars

Each graduate student is required to participate in an annual Work-In-Progress research seminar series and also give an annual Journal Club Presentation within their respective Research Group.

Graduate students must take the required instruction concerning biohazards, radiation safety, and WHMIS as well as instruction in the use of live animals in research by attending the relevant portion of MDSC 603.

  1. Recommended Courses

    • MDSC 621.01 Basic Principles of Pharmacology
    • MDSC 623.01 Pulmonary Mechanics and Gas Exchange
    • MDSC 623.02 Respiratory Muscle Physiology and control of Breathing
    • MDSC 623.03 Respiratory Science: Basic
    • MDSC 623.04 Respiratory Science: Applied
    • MDSC 629.01 Cardiovascular Physiology
    • MDSC 629.02 Cardiovascular Pathophysiology
    • MDSC 639.04 Inflammation
    • MDSC 751.09 Topics In Medical Sciences - Ion Channel Diseases

  2. Other Graduate Courses

    • MDSC 619.01 Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
    • MDSC 619.02 Systems Neurosciences
    • MDSC 639.01 Principles of Immunology

  3. Courses to Address Academic Deficiencies

    Recommended courses to address academic deficiencies students may have, but are not normally accepted as part of the students' course requirements:

    • MDSC 501* Principles and Mechanisms of Pharmacology
    • MDSC 503* Pharmacology of Organ Systems
    • MDSC 639.03 Immunological Basis of Disease
    • MDCH 610 Biostatistics I

    *Graduate Students enrolled in these courses are required to do additional work to that of undergraduate students (i.e. term paper)