Recognizing that student's career interests and goals are varied, students interested in graduate training in pharmacology have three degree choices:

• Master of Science (MS).
• Doctor of Philosophy in Biomedical Scieces (PhD), an interdisciplinary degree program in the School of Medicine.
• Combined MD-MS or MD-PhD.*
  

*(Students interested in the MD-MS or MD-PhD degree programs need to first gain admittance into the medical school for the MD program).

Doctoral Program: beginning in the Fall of 2006, all doctoral programs at the School of Medicine have been combined into a single Basic Medical Science training program where all doctoral students take the same multidisciplinary courses during the first year, and then branch out into different specialities during the second year, which will depend on the students area of interest. For current information on the BioMedical Sciences (BMS) doctoral program, check out the BMS home page.

Masters Program: our one year master's curriculum has been redesigned so that different courses cover related topics in thematic blocks in a coherent and coordinated manner. For example, during each block, classes cover the basic science principles, research methodology, medical pharmacology, and the scientific literature (journal club) of topics in a coordinated sequence. The timeline for the different themes covered in our curriculum can be found at this link. Our masters curriculum is also "objective based" in design, with each lecture or small group session having its own set of specific educational learning objectives designed to focus student learning. These learning objectives are provided for each content hour, prior to each block of lectures. Examples have been posted online.

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