Chair: Hermes H. Yeh
Professors D. Bartlett Jr., R. A. Darnall (Pediatrics and Physiology), J. A. Daubenspeck (Physiology and Biomedical Engineering), G. Fejes-Toth, V. A. Galton, P. M. Guyre, L. P. Henderson (Physiology and Biochemistry), J. C. Leiter (Physiology and Medicine), H. L. Manning (Medicine and Physiology), R. A. Maue (Physiology and Biochemistry), A. Naray-Fejes-Toth, E. E. Nattie, W. G. North, D. L. St. Germain (Medicine and Physiology), W. M. St. John, B. A. Stanton, H. M. Swartz (Radiology, Physiology and Community and Family Medicine), C. R. Wira, H. H. Yeh; Visiting Professor A. Katz (Medicine and Physiology); Associate Professor R. B. Robey; Assistant Professors E. deMuinck (Medicine and Physiology), A. Gulledge; Research Associate Professors J. E. Bodwell, A. L. Givan; Research Assistant Professors J.V. Fahey, A. Li, P. A. Pioli, L. A. Sheldon.
The Molecular, Cellular and Systems* Physiology Graduate Program is centered in the Physiology Department of Dartmouth Medical School, which is located in the Borwell Building at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. It includes faculty from other departments in the Medical School. The courses listed below are designed for graduate students.
*As of the 2007-2008 academic year the MCSP program has merged with the new Program in Experimental and Molecular Medicine, and thus the courses listed pertain only to students in year 2 and beyond.
REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DOCTOR’S DEGREE (PH.D.)
To qualify for award of the Ph.D. degree, a student must fulfill the following requirements:
1. The Medical Physiology courses (Physiology 110 and 120) plus an additional section in Gastro-Intestinal Physiology.
2. Two terms of Biochemistry.
3. The Medical Neuroscience course.
4. The Critical Reading of Scientific Literature course.
5. A course on Scientific Ethics.
6. Three research rotations.
7. Two Advanced Physiology courses.
8. Two elective courses, which may be either a core course or an advanced course offered by either Physiology or another department.
9. Thesis research propositional examination.
10. Laboratory research leading to the preparation of a thesis.
11. Defense of the thesis.