Description
Foundations of Medicine (FOM) is an intensive trans-disciplinary semester course designed to impart and stimulate, through lectures and active learning
strategies, acquisition of knowledge bases of the foundational biomedical sciences including metabolic biochemistry, molecular/cell biology, genetics, basic membrane and cell physiology, microbiology, immunology and introductory principles of pharmacology/chemotherapeutics. As the foundational knowledge base is assimilated, it is a necessary and fundamental course goal to rapidly place the information into clinical context through the employment of interactive case-based sessions (LGIS) with content experts exhibiting, underscoring and highlighting the mechanisms of maintaining human health and its absence ? disease. The latter thus focuses upon pathology ? ?the study of disease? and the basic science of clinical medicine. The mechanisms of health and disease will continually be illustrated through clinical vignettes and quizzes in LGI