Graduate Program

The new Integrative Anatomy (IA) offers a PhD degree administered through the interdisciplinary Pathobiology Area Program. Our graduate training emphasizes a flexible interdisciplinary approach to the education of doctoral students, with a current and growing core of closely-knit faculty in the Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences at the University of Missouri School of Medicine. The University of Missouri-Columbia (MU) is unique in affording access to a wide variety of resources on the same campus, some of which include the School of Medicine, College of Arts and Sciences, College of Engineering, College of Veterinary Medicine and Bond Life Sciences Center. This proximity facilitates access to exceptionally diverse and cutting-edge resources, with myriad cross-disciplinary opportunities for translational and evolutionary research and education. In combination with the technical and theoretical proficiency of IA faculty, we capitalize on emerging approaches from allied programs in pathobiology and the life sciences. Campus-wide, there are numerous faculty and student groups with exciting research interests that complement those of IA.

MU is unique in affording access to a wide variety of resources on the same campus, including:

This proximity facilitates access to exceptionally diverse and cutting-edge resources, with myriad cross-disciplinary opportunities for translational and evolutionary research and education. In combination with the technical and theoretical proficiency of the IA faculty, we capitalize on emerging approaches from allied programs in pathobiology and the life sciences. Indeed, campus-wide, there are numerous faculty and students with exciting research interests that complement those of the IA group.

The small size of the IA program gives our students the advantage of a personal and flexible program designed around student goals and interests. Resources and graduate student cohorts throughout the MU campus simultaneously confer the benefits of a large program. Independent research begins early in the graduate program, with laboratory research rotations occurring under faculty guidance in the first year. Students are required to take a series of core courses listed below. In consultation with the IA faculty, each student performs additional coursework tailored to suit their specific requirements. By the end of the second year, students are expected to pass a comprehensive examination centered on their PhD dissertation research project.

Following completion of the human anatomy and embryology course, each student obtains valuable experience as a teaching assistant for undergraduate, allied health and medical gross anatomy. Graduate students receive further training via seminars and journal clubs addressing subjects of interest to the current participants as well as topics of immediate and significant impact to the scientific and clinical communities. Regular contact with visiting scientists from various disciplines also is facilitated by a departmental seminar series as well as the presence of similar activities in other academic groups. Exposure to a comprehensive research background coupled with the development of individual expertise is designed to prepare graduate students for careers in research and education consisting of publishing, teaching and public outreach.

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anatomy image credits: Bernhard Siegfried Albinus: Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani
courtesy National Library of Medicine Historical Anatomies on the Web

Last modified: 26-Mar-2007