Cell Structure and Function

The year-one MD Program curriculum at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison includes a course called Cell Structure and Function.

Overarching Course Goals for Cell Structure and Function

• Acquire the ability to analyze histological images of normal cells and tissues
  
  
• Understand the functions of these cells and tissues in the healthy individual
  
  
• Learn and use the vocabulary of histology/microscopic anatomy
  
  
• Be introduced to the range of human pathogenic microbes and the spectrum of mechanisms of microbial disease pathogenesis
  
  
• Understand how the innate and adaptive host immune responses defend against pathogenic microbes including that positive and negative consequences to the immune responses
  
  
• Understand how membrane potentials arise, how they are propagated, and how they mediate the communication between excitable cells.
  
  
• Acquire the basic teaching skills needed to teach your peers what you have learned as you study together in small groups.