New Directions 202: SBM/The Cardiovascular System
Course Chair: James R. Bell, MD

SBM/Cardiology presents a survey of cardiovascular disease and disease mechanisms. The primary emphasis is on pathophysiology (the "basic sciences"). Because it is becoming more important to the practice of medicine, attention is also directed to such "clinical sciences" as epidemiology, outcomes assessment, and decision-making. Finally, because "the person" is so central to cardiologic diagnosis and treatment, it also addresses the psychosocial and ethical issues encountered in dealing with cardiac patients.


New Directions 210: SBM/Bone and Connective Tissues
Course Chair: Roger J. Diegel, MD

SBM/CT-Bone is a comprehensive overview of the common disorders affecting the musculoskeletal system. It covers the epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical features, and therapy of a broad spectrum of developmental, traumatic, metabolic, Immunologic, degenerative, and infectious diseases that affect the articular and periarticular structures. These include internal derangement of the knee and shoulder, disorders of the back, autoimmune diseases including rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, metabolic disorders including gout and pseudogout, and degenerative diseases, including osteoarthritis. An approach to diagnosis and treatment is covered.


New Directions 211: SBM/Dermatology
Course Chair: M. Shane Chapman, MD

SBM/Dermatology focuses on common and important cutaneous diseases from clinical and pathophysiologic perspectives. Emphasis is placed primarily on disease mechanisms, though dermatologic description, classification, and the importance of lesion distribution and morphology in dermatologic diagnosis are presented. A physical diagnosis practicum, a problem based learning case, and computer learning modules complement the 24 hours of lecture format.


New Directions 207:SBM/Metabolism, Diabetes and the Endocrine System
Course Chair: Paul J. Beisswenger, MD

In this course, the molecular, cellular and pathophysiologic bases of the major endocrine diseases (including diabetes mellitus) and of several metabolic diseases are explored with special emphasis on small group and independent study. The course includes several patient presentations and pathology laboratories. The student is also introduced to major issues in the clinical diagnosis and management of these diseases.


New Directions 212: SBM/The Kidney and Urinary System
Course Chair: Martha L. Graber, MD

This course emphasizes six areas as follows: sodium and water balance, acid base balance, normal renal function, acute renal failure, chronic renal failure, and pathology with emphasis on glomerulonephritis. Clinical correlations with basic physiology are stressed. Clinical problem solving is emphasized.


New Directions 209: SBM/The Gastrointestinal System
Course Chair: Steven P. Benson, MD

SBM/GI is an introductory course that reviews the normal physiology and clinically relevant pathophysiology of the Gastrointestinal tract [including the Esophagus, Stomach, Small and Large Intestine, Liver and Gallbladder, and Pancreas]. The course includes lectures, pathology labs, small case conferences, and 2 PBL cases.


New Directions 203: SBM/Hematology
Course Co-chairs:
Joseph F. O'Donnell, MD

Norman B. Levy, MD

SBM/Hematology presents an approach to diseases of the blood focusing on the conceptual framework for disorders of red cells, white cells, platelets, and coagulation factors. It includes a section on blood banking. The course utilizes active learning principles with computer cases, consult cases, group learning exercises, participatory labs, and interactive lectures.


New Directions 213: SBM/Infectious Diseases
Course Chair: C. Fordham von Reyn, MD

SBM/ID includes two major components: parasitology and the pathophysiology of infectious disease. The parasitology component includes lectures and laboratories on the principal pathogenic parasites. The infectious disease component covers the mechanisms of action and clinical use of antimicrobial agents, the pathophysiology and clinical features of the major infectious disease syndromes (e.g., pneumonia, urinary tract infections, etc.), and infectious disease epidemiology. Small group problem sessions and a laboratory on mycobacterial skin testing are included.


New Directions 205: SBM/The Nervous System
Course Co-chairs:
Rand S. Swenson, MD

Jeffrey A. Cohen, MD

SBM/Neurology offers an introduction to the most important and prevalent diseases of the nervous system utilizing a variety of learning formats. Some of us are better readers than lecture listeners, and may justifiably prefer to do their major studying from the text. Those who best glean their information from the lectures should also read the pertinent chapters, as few of the lectures will be able to cover all principles of any one topic in the allotted time.

Conferences and CPCs will give you an opportunity to determine your understanding of a topic and the faculty a chance to see how the class as a whole is progressing. The CPCs cannot be comprehensive enough to cover a topic completely. They are a practical presentation of some of the principles outlined in the text and reinforced in lecture.


New Directions 214: SBM/Nutrition
Course Chair: Barbara A. O'Mara, MD

The SBM Nutrition Course is an introduction to the principles of nutrition and to the use of nutrition in medical therapy. The purpose of the course is to stimulate a lifelong interest in nutrition. Students will analyze their own diet with the aid dietary computer software and review micronutrients in depth. Three therapeutic diets will be reviewed in detailed as examples of nutritional therapy: diet therapy for phenylketonuria, hypercholesterolemia and renal failure.


New Directions 208: SBM/Oncology
Course Chair: Bradley A. Arrick, MD, PhD

SBM/Oncology develops an approach to cancer as a disease of the molecule, the cell, the organ, the person, the family, and the community. It will focus on the basis for the care of the patient in all phases of the disease from preventative strategies, through approaches to diagnosis and treatment, to issues of palliative care and rehabilitation.


New Directions 204: SBM/Psychiatry
Course Chair: Donald A. West, MD

SBM/Psychiatry begins with an overview of psychiatric interviewing and general principles of psychiatric evaluation, including interviewing, mental status examination, diagnostic classification, and psychological assessment. The course also includes an introduction to psychopathology and addresses the clinical presentations, associated features, epidemiology, etiology, and treatment of major psychiatric disorders. Lectures are supplemented by classroom presentations of live patients, video material and written cases. Students acquire interviewing skills and exposure to clinical material by participation in a series of small groups with live patients. Problem-based learning also supplements the classroom material.


New Directions 206: SBM/The Reproductive System
Course Chair: Judy E. Stern, PhD

The goal of SBM/Reproduction is to provide an overview of male and female reproductive pathophysiology: how does normal reproductive function in the male and female translate into a disease. Students will analyze specific areas in Human Reproduction to apply basic reproductive knowledge to problems of major reproductive disorders. This course is designed to examine reproductive dysfunction detected clinically, by medical history, physical examination, and the clinical laboratory as well as to define the general principles of therapy for the more common disorders.


New Directions 201: SBM/The Respiratory System
Course Chair: Harold L. Manning, MD

SBM/Respiration reviews the fundamental pathologic and pathophysiologic changes that accompany a variety of common and important respiratory disorders. In addition to lectures that present the core material, there are several laboratory sessions in pathology as well as a number of case conferences which provide an opportunity to apply pathophysiologic concepts to patients with respiratory disease.