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Medicine, Faculty of Medicine

MEDI: Medicine

See also courses listed under: Anatomy, Biochemistry, Family Practice, Health Care and Epidemiology, Health Sciences, History of Medicine, Interdepartmental, Medical Genetics, Medicine, Microbiology, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Ophthalmology, Orthopaedics, Pediatrics, Pathology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Physiology, Psychiatry, Radiology, Surgery


  1. MEDI 501 (3) Molecular and Cellular Biology of Experimental Medicine

    Cell and molecular function in normal tissues and in specific disease processes, including, genetic, viral, bacterial, immune, and physiological disorders. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.

  2. MEDI 502 (3) Experimental Medicine Methodology

    Laboratory experience with experimental models of human disease; critical reviews of their relevance. Laboratory rotations, oral presentations and written reviews. Registration requires permission of the Department. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.

  3. MEDI 503 (3) Introduction to Clinical, Patient Oriented and Translational Research

    Framing appropriate research questions, appropriate research designs, protocol development, key concepts in regulatory approval and human ethical oversight in Canada, privacy and knowledge translation. For students pursuing clinical, patient oriented and translational research. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.

    Prerequisite: Permission of Experimental Medicine Program Director

  4. MEDI 504 (1.5-3) d Emerging Topics in Experimental Medicine

    Restricted to students in one of: Master of Science in Experimental Medicine or Doctor of Philosophy in Experimental Medicine. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.

  5. MEDI 510 (3) Nephrology

    Mechanisms of regulation of acid-base balance, fluid and electrolyte content, excretion of proteins and organic substances in kidney disease; abnormal renal mechanisms in hypertension. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.

  6. MEDI 520 (3) Advanced Topics in Visual Sciences

    Fundamental principles of vision from basic physiology to clinical syndromes across the visual pathway spanning the globe, ocular structures including the retina, up to striate and extrastriate cortices. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.

  7. MEDI 530 (3) Gastroenterology

    Pathogenesis and abnormal physiology in disease of the intestine and accessory organs; carcinogenesis; regulatory peptides; liver disease; inflammatory bowel disease; oesophageal dysfunction. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.

  8. MEDI 535 (3) Research Seminar

    Reviews of research in selected areas of experimental medicine, including presentation of student's own research results. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.

  9. MEDI 540 (3) Advances in Neurology

    Pathogenesis and immunological mechanisms in acute and chronic virus infections of the central nervous system; immunologically induced non-infectious neurological disease. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.

  10. MEDI 548 (2-6) d Directed Studies in Experimental Medicine

    This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.

  11. MEDI 549 (18) M.Sc. Thesis

    This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.

  12. MEDI 560 (3) Pulmonary Pathophysiology

    Same as PATH 518. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.

  13. MEDI 570 (3) Cardiovascular Pathophysiology

    Pathogenesis, abnormal physiology and therapeutic approaches in heart disease including cardiac arrhythmia, heart failure, myocardial infarction, hypertension, atherosclerosis. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.

    Equivalency: PATH 570.

  14. MEDI 580 (3/6) c Experimental Medicine: Infectious Diseases

    Supervised individual program of directed studies in experimental aspects of pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases, and mechanisms of host defence against microbial infections. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.

  15. MEDI 590 (3) Molecular Regulation of Cell Growth and Differentiation

    Receptors, kinases, phosphatases, G proteins, adapters, transcription factors and other regulatory proteins involved in eukaryotic cell activation, growth and differentiation; defective cell signalling in human diseases; methods to track actions of toxins and drugs in experimental model systems. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.

    Prerequisite: A third-year or higher Biochemistry course.

  16. MEDI 649 (0) Ph.D. Thesis

    This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.


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