生物医学科学理学硕士

有兴趣从事生物医学高级研究的学生可以选择论文或非论文课程，获得生物医学科学硕士学位。论文选择针对那些对工业或学术界从事生物医学研究事业感兴趣的学生，可以为博士课程提供垫脚石。学位。非论文选修课程是为寻求深入接触生物医学科学或巩固其知识基础的学生而设计的，以为广泛的职业选择做准备，包括在专业学校进修。该学位要求30个学分。下面列出了可用于该学位的当前课程。如果要用于学位要求，则未列入此清单​​的任何课程都必须经过大学研究生委员会的批准。
The Department of Anatomical Sciences, within the Health Sciences Center, offers a multidisciplinary graduate program leading to the Ph.D. degree. Students receive comprehensive training to prepare them for teaching and research in the areas of evolutionary morphology, systematics, functional morphology, musculoskeletal biology, and vertebrate paleontology. Graduate students are guided through a program of courses designed for their particular needs. In this regard, the Department of Anatomical Sciences interacts not only with other departments in the School of Medicine but also with those in the College of Arts and Sciences (e.g., Anthropology, Geosciences, and Ecology and Evolution), as well as other regional doctoral programs (City University of New York, American Museum of Natural History, Richard Gilder Graduate School).<br><br>The program trains students in the analysis and interpretation of gross vertebrate structure with the goal of testing hypotheses in systematics, paleoecology and adaptation. Training and research focus on applying an evolutionary perspective to the study of morphology, including functional morphology and phylogenetic systematics. Field-based projects for the discovery of new fossils are typically underway every year. Both the locomotor and the craniodental anatomical systems are regions of current interest and investigation within the program. Several faculty in the department specialize in the application of experimental and quantitative techniques to the analysis of the relationship between form and function. Studies of skeletal adaptations are also facilitated by collaboration with the Musculoskeletal Research Laboratory of the Department of Orthopaedics. Questions of systematics are approached at different levels, ranging from alpha taxonomy to higher-order relationships and we provide training using contemporary methods of phylogenetic systematics and biogeography. Students in the program have the opportunity to master a variety of research methods and analytical strategies: multivariate morphometrics, phylogenetic systematics, biogeography, CT-based anatomical reconstructions, behavioral ecology, and principles of paleontological fieldwork.