BMSICCRTG - Foundations for Biomedical Science PhDs Serving Indigenous Cultures

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Students will take a minimum of 13 units of graduate course work (listed below), attend mentoring workshops, and participate in guided research and professional development opportunities provided by the PREP@UAZ program. As participants in the NIH-sponsored PREP program at the UA, certificate students will devote 75% of their full-time efforts to mentored research, and 25% to coursework and professional development activities.

*Up to 13 units of graduate-level coursework earned toward this certificate will be transferrable towards the requirements of other graduate degree programs at the University of Arizona

7 units of biomedical study (from courses below):
PATH 515 – Mechanisms of Human Diseases (4)
BIOS 576A – Biostatistics in Public Health (3)

3 units of American Indian or Mexican American Studies (options include the following):
AIS 531A: Traditional Ecological Knowledge (3 units)
AIS 535: Mexican Traditional Medicine: An Overview of Indigenous Curing Cultures (3 units)
AIS 537A: Nation Building I (3 units)
AIS 541A: Natural Resource Management in Native Communities (3 units)
AIS 548: Research Design and Methodology (3 units)
AIS 595a: American Indian Studies (3 units)
MAS 505 – Traditional Indian Medicine:  Health, Healing, and Well Being
MAS 535 – Mexican Traditional Medicine:  An Overview of Indigenous Curing Cultures
*3 units may be substituted with program advisor approval, or in the rare case that a student may have taken some of the required courses

Minimum of 3 units of graduate-level biomedical coursework in the field of the future PhD (examples):
BIOC 568 – Nucleic Acids, Metabolism & Signaling (4 units)
BIOS 576B – Biostatistics for Research (3 units)
BME 577 – Introduction to Biomedical Informatics
CMM 525A – Functional Human Histology (4 units)
EPID 573A – Basic Principles of Epidemiology
HPS 535 – Multicultural Health Beliefs (3 units)
MCB 572A – Cell Systems (3 units)
PSIO 584 – Cardiovascular Muscle Biology & Disease (3 units)

Maintain a 3.0 GPA

Please refer to the Graduate Student Handbook for students who are pursuing this program of study.