Molecular Medicine

[kiddynamite914]

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Hello. So this fall my university if offering a molecular medicine course to undergraduates. It is a 3 credit course and thus is the first time it is being offered. Does anyone have any inputs on this course or field as a whole. I really don't know much about it. Thanks!

 

[WedgeDawg]

http://molmed.org/home

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_medicine

Try looking there, as well as your university's website

 

[kiddynamite914]

http://molmed.org/home

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_medicine

Try looking there, as well as your university's website

From what my university webpage says, it just seems like an advanced approach to physiological problems. More of applied physiology in a way. @WedgeDawg

 

[WedgeDawg]

From what my university webpage says, it just seems like an advanced approach to physiological problems. More of applied physiology in a way. @WedgeDawg

There's no course description or anything? I would browse through the wikipedia article and the molmed site and see what you can find and see if it sounds interesting to you.

 

[kiddynamite914]

There's no course description or anything? I would browse through the wikipedia article and the molmed site and see what you can find and see if it sounds interesting to you.

Nope there isn't, especially since its a topics class. But from the molmed website you gave me, I immediately found this statement pretty interesting:
"Molecular Medicine strives to promote the understanding of normal body functioning and disease pathogenesis at the molecular level, and to allow researchers and physician-scientists to use that knowledge in the design of specific tools for disease diagnosis, treatment, prognosis, and prevention." @WedgeDawg

 

[WedgeDawg]

Nope there isn't, especially since its a topics class. But from the molmed website you gave me, I immediately found this statement pretty interesting:
"Molecular Medicine strives to promote the understanding of normal body functioning and disease pathogenesis at the molecular level, and to allow researchers and physician-scientists to use that knowledge in the design of specific tools for disease diagnosis, treatment, prognosis, and prevention." @WedgeDawg

If that sounds interesting, you could try contacting the professor to get more information about how the course is going to be structured and what is going to be covered. You'll likely get a more detailed response if you show evidence of prior knowledge or research (ie reading these two websites) and ask specific questions (for instance, "is xyz going to be covered?"). You could also ask for the course syllabus or a sample of readings (I'm sure you'll look at a couple journal articles in this class) to see if they are interesting.

Also FYI, you don't have to quote and do the @ tag thing - either one by itself will give the intended user a notification 😉