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Fall of 2011

MSCI 620/920, The Scientific Basis of Medicine

 

General Information:

Time: Wednesday, 12:00 noon -- 1:00 PM
Place: On August 3 and 12 students in Houston and Temple will meet in Alkek 1114 and MEC 207, respectively.  All other meetings will be in Room 162 Reynolds Medical Building in College Station; room HPEB-LL11B in Bryan; room 1114 Alkek Building in Houston; room 207 Medical Education Center in Temple, and IRM C126.
Instructors:      
Dr. Julian Leibowitz (Course Coordinator) and other interested faculty
Office Hours: By appointment
Location: Medical Research & Education Building Suite 1001, Office 1004
Phone: 979-436-0313
This course grew out of the MD/PhD Journal Club and thus is primarily directed for MD/PhD students, but it is open to a limited number of medical students and graduate students. Seats are limited to allow each student that is registered an opportunity to present. Priority will be given to MD/PhD students for whom this is a required course. The course provides opportunities for medical students and graduate students to rigorously discuss and critique the scientific and medical literature. It promotes scientific rigor and continuing strong interactions between the students and the faculty who direct the journal club. Students select papers from diverse sources, but are encouraged to utilize Faculty of 1000 and high profile journals such as Nature Medicine and Journal of Clinical Investigation as the source of the papers to be discussed. Students will learn how to critique and evaluate the literature. When presenting a paper they are expected to present the background of the paper, the authors' hypotheses and experimental approaches, to interpret the results, and to present the scientific and medical (real and potential) significance of the work.

Required reading material:
Students presenters will distribute the paper to be discussed electronically no later than the Saturday prior to their presentation. Students are expected to read this material before coming to class, and to participate in the discussions.

Format of class:
This course will use the journal club format, in which one student presents a paper that is discussed by the class and faculty participants.

Expectations:
Students are expected to read the paper to discussed before coming to class, and to participate in the discussions. At the end of the course students are expected to be able to extract from a paper its underlying hypotheses, and to evaluate the strengths, weaknesses, and significance of papers from the current literature, and to be able to formally present this information in a journal club format.

Grades and exams:
The course will be graded on a pass/fail basis.

 

Schedule for the Spring Semester

January 4 -- May 9, 2012

Date

Site of Origin

Presenter/Topic

January 4

Bryan - HPEB LL11B

Joel Turtle

January 11

College Station - RMB 162

Tiana Endicott

January 18

Houston- IBT

Shruti Gandhy
January 25

Houston - IBT

Shan Gao

February 1

Bryan - HPEB LL11B

 Anita Mantri

February 8

 Bryan - HPEB LL11B Evan Cherry

February 15

Bryan - HPEB LL11B

 Karen Doersch

February 22

Bryan - HPEB LL11B

Paul Hillman

February 29

Bryan - HPEB LL11B

 Thushara Galbadage

March 7

Houston - IBT

Ricky Savjani

March 14

Spring Break

Spring Break

March 21

Bryan - HPEB LL11B

Rolland Doubleday
March 28

Bryan - HPEB LL11B

Liam Guthrie

April 4

College Station - RMB 162

Joseph Tingling
April 11

Bryan - HPEB LL11B

Shelby Steinmeyer

April 18

Bryan - HPEB LL11B

Laurent Ehrlich

April 25

 Houston- IBT

Prashanth Francis

May 2

College Station - RMB 162

Alicia Leahy

May 9

Temple - MEC 207

Kendal Jensen