++ MD/PhD ++ BCMB ++ CMM ++ BME ++ Other Graduate Programs
in the School of Medicine ++ Undergraduate Neuroscience Program ++ Summer Internship Program (SIP)
Typical Schedule for the First Two Years
The schedule of individual students vary according to their interests, but most students take two courses each quarter while doing laboratory rotations and beginning their thesis research. Most students have completed the course work and are working fulltime on their thesis research by the end of the second year.
Attendance of Journal Club and Departmental Seminars are required of all first and second year students in all quarters.
FIRST YEAR
First Quarter Neuroscience Cognition I Elective (e.g. Neuropharmacology; Topics in Cortical Plasticity; Theoretical Neuroscience) Research Symposia Journal Club (Readings in Neuroscience or Readings in Systems Neuroscience) Research Seminar Series (Current Topics in Neuroscience or Bodian Seminars) Science, Ethics and Society |
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Second Quarter
Neuroscience Cognition I
Elective (e.g. Topics in Somatosensory Research)
Journal Club (Readings in Neuroscience or Readings in Systems Neuroscience)
Research Seminar Series (Current Topics in Neuroscience or Bodian Seminars)
Laboratory rotation I
Science, Ethics and Society
Third Quarter
Neuroscience Cognition II
Elective (e.g.Current Issues in Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience; Stem Cells: Unit of Regeneration)
Journal Club (Readings in Neuroscience or Readings in Systems Neuroscience)
Research Seminar Series (Current Topics in Neuroscience or Bodian Seminars)
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Fourth Quarter Neuroscience Cognition II Elective (e.g. Cellular and Molecular Basis of Neural Development; Mechanisms of Synaptic Transmission; Topics in Somatosensory Research) Laboratory rotation II Journal Club (Readings in Neuroscience or Readings in Systems Neuroscience) Research Seminar Series (Current Topics in Neuroscience or Bodian Seminars)
Summer Laboratory rotation III |
SECOND YEAR
First Quarter
Begin thesis research
Elective (e.g; Trends in the Neurobiology of Aging; Topics in Cortical Plasticity; Structure and Function of the Auditory and Vestibular System)
Journal Club (Readings in Neuroscience or Readings in Systems Neuroscience)
Research Seminar Series (Current Topics in Neuroscience or Bodian Seminars)
Second Quarter
Elective (e.g. Physiology of Sensory Transduction)
Journal Club (Readings in Neuroscience or Readings in Systems Neuroscience)
Research Seminar Series (Current Topics in Neuroscience or Bodian Seminars)
Third Quarter Elective (e.g.Writing About the Brain; Teaching in Neuroscience; Neurobiology of Substance Use Disorders; The REtinal Ganglion Cell) Journal Club (Readings in Neuroscience or Readings in Systems Neuroscience) Research Seminar Series (Current Topics in Neuroscience or Bodian Seminars) Fourth Quarter Elective (e.g. Diseases of the Brain; Cellular and Molecular Basis of Neural Development; Topics in Somatosensory Research; Current Issues in Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience) Journal Club (Readings in Neuroscience or Readings in Systems Neuroscience) Research Seminar Series (Current Topics in Neuroscience or Bodian Seminars) |
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The Doctoral Board Oral Exam must be arranged by April 15th and completed by July 1st.
THIRD YEAR
The Thesis Proposal must be arranged by October 1st and completed by December 1st.