Preclinical

This course is offered in the final year of the preclinical program. It is a requirement for students in the School of Medicine combined degree program (Bachelor's/ MD). An emphasis of the class is to equip students with the skills needed to assess, understand, and critically evaluate published medical research. The course begins by reviewing standard research design and common pitfalls. It then covers other relevant topics, such as methodology, ethics, online research resources, survey design, and basic data interpretation. Students work together in small groups to produce a research paper and present a poster to the campus community.

This is a skills development course through which students in the preprofessional programs will find creative and constructive ways to gain and apply knowledge in learning situations. Students will develop a commitment to learning in a more personalized, efficient, and effective way. Significant attention will be given to study strategies and how to best place these strategies into practice in their course of study. Class sessions will provide opportunities for students to gain exposure to various learning strategies and for students to share their experiences, successes, and concerns with other students. Students will gain exposure to various learning techniques. Students will be exposed to levels of learning, types of studying, time management and planning, active review, memory, note-taking strategies, group study, and methods of developing critical-thinking skills.

Practicing professionals need to be able to read, understand and evaluate research studies. They need to be able to critically evaluate research data and to determine whether research methods and arguments are sound and valid. They need to be able to summarize, paraphrase and synthesize published work, with appropriate documentation, to support their own professional decisions, claims and arguments. This course is designed to support students in developing these skills.

This course aims to train students of the health professions to write clearly and effectively, to identify and correct punctuation and grammatical errors, and to write in style and registers that are appropriate for academic and professional contexts. Students will analyze several writing tasks commonly required in the health professions in order to identify and then apply the principles contributing to effectively performing these tasks. A process approach will be taken.

This course is designed to introduce students in the final year of the preclinical program to clinical medicine. It provides an insight into the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values individual students need to acquire as physicians, as well as an understanding of how material currently taught in physiology lectures applies to clinical medicine.

This course is offered in the final year of the preclinical program. It is a requirement for students in the School of Medicine combined degree program (Bachelor's/ MD). An emphasis of the class is to equip students with the skills needed to assess, understand, and critically evaluate published medical research. The course begins by reviewing standard research design and common pitfalls. It then covers other relevant topics, such as methodology, ethics, online research resources, survey design, and basic data interpretation. Students work together in small groups to produce a research paper and present a poster to the campus community.

Student must have a good command of the English language and be computer literate be able to actively participate in all activities required in the program. The program requires skills in communication, problem solving, and an ability to adapt and function efficiently when faced with challenging circumstances (workload, environment, stress, etc). Students should have a working knowledge in the following subject areas Organic chemistry, General chemistry, Human biology, Maths. The course involves five major modules offered in three blocks. No course substitution is allowed.

Block 1 (3 weeks)
Module 1. Molecular Biology
Module 2. Introduction to Psychopathology

Block 2 (5 weeks)
Module 3. Human anatomy
Module 4. Biochemistry

Block 3 (4 weeks)
Module 5. Human Physiology

Requirements : 80 % overall pass, GPA of 3.0 or better, 75% Pass in PCSCE, meets standard for admission and professional conduct.

Teaching requirements : Daily lectures synchronous/asynchronous lectures Monday - Friday between the hours of 11am -2pm, with a duration of 75 mins and Lab/Small group sessions of 110 mins between the hours of 3:30 pm-5:30pm.