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skills, then explore physical examination and medical documentation skills. After completing
this course, the student should feel comfortable gathering extra information from a patient
through general examination and vital signs examination. Students will gain competency in
these fundamental clinical skills through a variety of educational media---readings, lectures,
demonstrations, films, and practice. Practice sessions will enable students to learn and improve
as they grow.

29. Biomedical Sciences Electives Package

30. Host Defense
The goal of the course is to develop an understanding of antigen recognition, development of
B and T cells, constitutive host defenses, immunopathology, inflammation, transplantation,
allergy, and tumor immunology. The Course introduces students to the most important
principles governing the functions of the human immune system, the biological mechanisms
utilized by the immune system and how these relate to human disease.
31. Behavioral and Social Sciences II
The course will enable students to gain a foundation of knowledge for interacting with,
assessing, diagnosing, and treating patients with psychiatric illnesses; and to increase student
understanding of, and ability to manage, the emotional, behavioral, psychiatric, and
communications aspects of the clinical encounter with patients, and thereby prepare students
for their clinical clerkships. The central purpose of the course is to enable students to
understand the biological and psychosocial origins of psychiatric syndromes, their definitions
and symptom features, and diagnostic criteria, as delineated in the Diagnostic and Statistical
Manual of Mental Disorders - 5th edition, (DSM-5).
32. Endocrine-Reproductive Systems
The course teaches the normal histology, embryology, physiology, pathology, pharmacology
and basic clinical medicine of the endocrine and reproductive systems, integrated with a
consideration of endocrine/reproductive abnormalities and appropriate therapy for these
conditions. The endocrine part will present integrated discussion of normal and abnormal
endocrine function, pathologies and clinical presentations. The reproductive part will introduce
the development, histology, anatomy, physiology and endocrine control of the reproductive
system.
33. Infectious Diseases
In this course, the most significant bacterial, viral, and parasitic infectious diseases are covered,
with emphasis on epidemiology, pathogenic mechanisms of causative agents, immune
responses to infection, typical clinical presentation, prevention and treatment. The infectious
diseases are organized primarily by organ or system in order to present information as it would
be encountered in clinical practice.
34. Medical Interviewing Skills II
Medical Interviewing Skills provide the basic knowledge and skills needed to evaluate patients
while at the same time emphasizing the importance and integration of ethics, information
technology, oral and written communication, and professionalism. The course takes a further
step towards student preparation for authentic medical practice.

35. Applied Clinical Skills
This course is designed to prepare the student for understanding of the more integrated courses,
by developing his or her integrated history taking, interviewing, physical exam and clinical
reasoning skills. Applied clinical skill is a discrete and observable act of medical care. Clinical
reasoning, as a clinical skill, is the process of making sense of a clinical encounter. The student