| MD 1 | Theory Hours | Practical Hours | Total Credit Hours |
| Medical Embryology | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| Biostatistics and Epidemiology Introduction to EBM & Clinical research | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| Gross Anatomy | 8 | 4 | 12 |
| Histology, Cell and Molecular Biology | 8 | 2 | 10 |
Course: Embryology
Code: MED 5418
Objective of the Course:
• The course deals with the formation, early growth, and development of living organisms.
• It also includes clinically oriented embryological disorders in a human body.
• The course prepares the students to understand the study of abnormal development and use this information in understanding risk estimation, the causes of anomalies, and how malformations may be prevented.
• Also prepares the students about the knowledge of molecular mechanisms that are involved in embryonic development.
• National board exams are now clinical oriented, therefore, special attention will be paid to review each topic in the end in board style.
Course: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Code: MED 5436
Objective of the Course:
The course explains the fundamentals and principles of the distribution of diseases and their causes in human populations. Students will learn the basics about the screening test, validity, accuracy, precision of a screening test. Students will be familiar with the study design concepts like case-control studies, cohort studies and Randomized control trails and are capable of applying the same concept in clinical research. Biostatistics is included, and emphasis is placed on practice interviews and data collection. Students will be tested on applying the concepts in clinical scenarios.
Course: Anatomy
Code: MED 5442
Objective of the Course:
Anatomy is the study of body structures and their relations. Anatomy forms the basis for the practice of medicine and leads the physicians towards an understanding of a patients disease. The ability to interpret a clinical observation correctly is therefore the end point of a sound anatomical understanding.
During this course the student will learn the anatomical vocabulary necessary to communicate effectively with colleagues across the world , acquire the anatomical knowledge necessary to demonstrate clinical competence , basic principles of medical imaging techniques and develop a three-dimensional perspective of the human body and apply this knowledge to the interpretation of medical images.
Exams are conducted in the format of multiple choice questions which simulates the USMLE board exams.At the end of the semester, the student is expected to be able to describe, explain and draw any specific part or region of the human body in order for them to correlate these facts with the presenting signs and symptoms of the patients, and help them in making their correct clinical/physical diagnosis.
Course: Histology
Code: MED 5489
Objective of the Course:
Histology is the branch of science that deals with the tissues, cells of an organism at the microscopic level as such serves as the foundation on which pathology and pathophysiology is built.
During this course student will
• Learn about the molecular biology of the cell.
• Learn about the four basic tissues, Epithelial, Connective, Muscular and Nervous tissue , the way in which these four types are integrated to form organs and how organs are combined to form systems.
• This foundation is followed by emphasizing how cells become specialized to perform the specific functions of these tissues.
• Students also learn color photomicrographs, electron micrographs and laboratory basis of the study of histology.
• Finally we devote individual chapters to each of the organs and organ systems of the human body.
• The emphasis on spatial arrangements of the basic tissues provides the key to understanding the functions of each organ. Again we emphasize cell biology / Histology as the most fundamental approach to the study of structure and function of human organs.
