13 undergraduate courses in the 2026–27 Undergraduate Calendar.
MEDSCI 200Learning Strategies for Pre-Professional Programs0.25 units
This is a skills development course through which students in a pre-professional program will find creative and constructive ways to gain and apply knowledge in learning situations. Students will develop a commitment to learning in a more personalized, efficient, and effective way. Significant attention will be given to study strategies and how to best place these strategies into practice in their course of study. Class sessions will provide opportunities for students to gain exposure to various learning strategies and for students to share their experiences, successes, and concerns with other students. Students will gain exposure to various learning techniques. Students will be exposed to levels of learning, types of studying, time management and planning, active review, memory, note-taking strategies, group study, and methods of developing critical-thinking skills.
MEDSCI 202Communication for Health Professions 10.50 units
Practicing professionals need to be able to read, understand, and evaluate research studies. They need to be able to critically evaluate research data and to determine whether research methods and arguments are sound and valid. They need to be able to summarize, paraphrase, and synthesize published work, with appropriate documentation, to support their own professional decisions, claims, and arguments. This course is designed to support students in developing these skills.
MEDSCI 203Communication for Health Professions 20.50 units
This course aims to train students of the health professions to write clearly and effectively, to identify and correct punctuation and grammatical errors, and to write in style and registers that are appropriate for academic and professional contexts. Students will analyze several writing tasks commonly required in the health professions in order to identify and then apply the principles contributing to effectively performing these tasks. A process approach will be taken.
This course is designed to provide a fundamental basis for understanding human physiology pertinent to clinical medicine. The course uses a variety of instructional approaches to facilitate learning using lectures, quizzes, interactive multiple choice question sessions, and small group clinical discussions. Course topics teaching the essential elements, concepts, and organ systems in human physiology are delivered consecutively, grouped as follows: cell and tissue physiology: homeostasis, excitable tissue, and introduction to nervous system; neurophysiology, autonomic nervous, and cardiovascular systems; gastrointestinal and pulmonary systems; and endocrine and renal systems.
This course presents a systematic approach to the study of the human body. The course has been developed to provide students with a basic foundation in the anatomical sciences. The anatomical sciences include human gross anatomy, developmental anatomy, histology, and cell biology. The course begins with an introduction to anatomical terminology and imaging, cellular organization, and the basic tissues. The course continues with an extensive study of the eleven major systems of the human body: integumentary system, skeletal system, muscular system, cardiovascular system, lymphatic system, respiratory system, digestive system, urinary system, male and female reproductive systems, nervous system, and endocrine system. The course is composed of lecture, laboratory, small group, and online activities.
Living organisms are construed principally from macromolecules (i.e., proteins, lipids, etc.). In addition, certain proteins (enzymes) catalyze most of the reactions occurring within cells. This course is designed to deal with the structure and function of proteins (including enzymes, cofactors, and antibodies), carbohydrates, nucleic acids (DNA and RNA), and lipids (including membranes structure). All cells require a continual supply of energy in the form of adenosine triphosphate (ATP). This course begins by describing the structure and significance of ATP and explains how ATP is synthesized. The key process of the TCA cycle, oxidative phosphorylation, glycolysis, and fatty acid degradation will all be described. The course will also explain how macromolecules such as carbohydrates and lipids are synthesized from simpler precursors.
MEDSCI 280Introduction to Psychopathology0.50 units
This course is designed to provide a fundamental basis for understanding psychopathology. It reviews the major psychiatric disorders as defined in the DSM-5. The salient diagnostic features of the mental disorders are highlighted. Major theories of the etiology of mental illness are reviewed, and neurobiological correlates of abnormal behaviour are emphasized when possible. Both psychotherapeutic and biological treatment options and outcome measures for mental illness are covered. Clinical cases and clinical videos illustrating psychopathology are utilized to enhance learning.
This course is designed to help students develop an understanding of the molecular mechanisms that biological organisms use to store and preserve genetic information, the means by which they use that information to create functional biological structures, and the techniques that are commonly used to manipulate and study these processes in the laboratory.
MEDSCI 300Basic Principles of Medicine 12.50 units
This 17-week course is the first course of the Doctor of Medicine (MD) program of St. George's University School of Medicine, Grenada. It is part one of an organ-system based curriculum for the first academic year of the program, taught in three consecutive modules as follows: Foundation to Medicine (6 weeks), Musculoskeletal System (4 weeks), and Cardiovascular, Pulmonary, and Renal Systems (7 weeks).
MEDSCI 350Basic Principles of Medicine 22.50 units
This 18-week course is the second course of the Doctor of Medicine (MD) program of St. George's University School of Medicine, Grenada. It is part two of an organ-system based curriculum for the first academic year of the program, taught in three consecutive modules as follows: Endocrine and Reproductive Systems (3 weeks), Digestive Systems and Metabolism (4.3 weeks), and Nervous System and Behavioural Science (10.7 weeks).
MEDSCI 400Principles of Clinical Medicine 13.00 units
This 18-week course is the fourth course of the Doctor of Medicine (MD) program of St George's University School of Medicine, Grenada. It is a systems-based curriculum for the second academic year of the program, taught in four consecutive modules: Foundations to Clinical Medicine (4 weeks), Cardiovascular and Renal Systems (4 weeks), Respiratory and Hematopoietic Systems (4 weeks), and Digestive, Endocrine, and Reproductive Systems (6 weeks).
MEDSCI 420Basic Principles of Medicine 31.00 units
This 6-week course is the third course of the Doctor of Medicine (MD) program of St George's University School of Medicine, Grenada. The core aim of this course is to equip physicians with the knowledge and skills to understand fundamental principles inherent to a future understanding and diagnosis of microbial infections; the ability to devise and utilize strategies that improve the health of entire communities and populations and help reduce health inequities among population groups; and the capacity to uphold standards of ethics and professionalism expected across North America. The course is sub-structured into four thematic areas: ethics, professionalism, and medical jurisprudence; basics of immunology and microbiology; public health assessment tools; and culture and societal issues/physician-patient relations.
MEDSCI 450Principles of Clinical Medicine 22.50 units
This 18-week course is the fifth of the Doctor of Medicine (MD) program at the St George's University School of Medicine, Grenada, in the second academic year of the program, taught in four consecutive modules. The first module completes the teaching of the basic science content allowing a smooth transition to the remaining modules that focus on the integration of multidisciplinary approaches to clinical scenarios that aid the students in preparation for their examinations and clinical years: Muscle, Nerve, and Infections (6 weeks); Cardiology, Pulmonary, Renal, and Hematology (4 weeks); Gastroenterology, Obstetrics, Endocrine, and Reproductive (4 weeks); Dermatology, Neurology, Psychiatry, and Rheumatology (4weeks).