Physiology

Admissions

Graduate students are admitted through Integrated Biomedical Sciences Program, which is a common feed program to all basic science programs at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine. Students remain in this program for the first year. An undifferentiated first-year core curriculum is designed to promote exposure to cellular and molecular concepts in the biomedical sciences, development of interdisciplinary approaches essential to innovative research, flexibility in choosing a Ph.D. mentor from 7 basic science departments. Students who select a full or joint member of the Physiology Faculty as a faculty mentor and successfully complete the Integrated Biomedical Sciences Program curriculum are eligible for admission to the Physiology Graduate Program.

In conjunction with the Colleges of Medicine and Dentistry, the Department will consider for admission those qualified students wishing to pursue a combined M.D.-Ph.D. or D.M.D.-Ph.D. program in preparation for academic careers. Under special circumstances, advanced students may apply directly to the Physiology graduate program.