Department: Comparative Medicine

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COMPMED109 Veterinary Clinical Shadowing Experience Restricted to pre-veterinary students. Priority given to Seniors. The objective of this course is to provide students with practical experience in clinical laboratory animal veterinary medicine by shadowing veterinary staff at Stanford. Experience is...
COMPMED110 Pre-Veterinary Advisory Have you ever considered a career in veterinary medicine but are unsure what it would entail? Pre-Vet Advisory fosters a community of veterinary-curious students and connects them with Stanford veterinarians. Periodic group meetings and guest lecture...
COMPMED114 Wielding White Coat Words: Introduction to Comparative Medical Terminology Are you left clueless trying to understand the medical jargon when watching your favorite medical drama? Are you interested in attending a professional school (e.g., medical, dental, or veterinary) and want to have a head start over your classmates?...
COMPMED182 How to Avoid the Walking Dead: Understanding Biosafety Are you concerned the Walking Dead will soon rise? Are we on the verge of World War Z? What can be done to prevent the escape of Zombie-producing agents from labs? This course seeks to save the world through the introduction of biosafety history, c...
COMPMED198 Undergraduate Directed Reading in Comparative Medicine May be taken as a prelude to research and may also involve participation in a lab or research group seminar and/or library research.
COMPMED199 Undergraduate Research Investigations sponsored by individual faculty members. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
COMPMED200 One Health Journal Club Participants report on and review scientific articles published in peer reviewed journals. Focus is on manuscripts which report basic and mechanistic discoveries, animal modeling and translational research. The objective is to introduce MLAS student...
COMPMED202 Research Biomethodology for Laboratory Animal Science Emphasis is on providing introductory training and practical, hands-on research animal biomethodology. Topics include basic care and principles guiding the use of research animals, animal health and welfare, enrichment, basic mouse handling, rodent b...
COMPMED205 Animal Use in Biomedical Research How and why animals are used in biomedical science. Addresses human and animal health and how animal research has contributed to the treatment and cure of disease. Significant portions of this course are devoted to documenting the humane care and tre...
COMPMED208 Primate Brain Evolution: An Introduction to who we are We explore the origins and evolutionary trends that have shaped primate brain structure and function. We focus on primates in the context of other mammalian and vertebrate species, as a way of comparing alternate brain plans and evolutionary pressur...
COMPMED209 Laboratory Animal Medicine Seminar Focuses on husbandry, care, and diseases of major laboratory animal species (rodents, fish and amphibians, swine, sheep, rabbits, monkeys); regulatory and compliance, applied principles of animal modeling, and factors that influence animal research,...
COMPMED210 Form and Funkiness of Lab Animals : Anatomy, Histology, and Pathology Have you ever stopped to think what all those pink and purple dots mean in a histology slide? Does wondering about what a pancreas really looks like keep you up at night? Have you ever lost sleep thinking about what dermatitis or an infarct really ar...
COMPMED211 Robust, reproducible, real-world experimental design and analysis for life and biomedical scientists So you've taken all these stats classes and learned a bunch of equations, but now you have to design and analyze your own experiments, and you're feeling lost and all those equations and classes really don't make sense. DON'T PANIC, we've all been th...
COMPMED260 Masters Laboratory Animal Science Practicum/Laboratory Research Research laboratory and clinical service (pathology, diagnostic laboratory, surgery, husbandry, anesthesiology, aquatics, facility business and management, etc.), quarterly rotations for students enrolled in the Master's of Laboratory Animal Scienc...
COMPMED290 Laboratory Animal Science Professional Development and Career Exploration Focus is on career development for graduate students and trainees enrolled in a trainee program in the Department of Comparative Medicine. Seminar topics include career pathways in laboratory animal science, resume preparation, manuscript preparation...
COMPMED291 Masters Research Presentations Students enrolled in Masters of Laboratory Animal Science Graduate Program will present their Masters research project to the department. The first few sessions of the course are designed to assist students with development of their scientific talk a...
COMPMED292 Practical Training Educational opportunities for students participating in professional internships in organizations (e.g. research institutes, medicine, biotechnology, development labs, policy). Students engage in internship work and integrate that work into their aca...
COMPMED299 Directed Reading in Comparative Medicine Prerequisite: consent of instructor. (Staff)
COMPMED370 Medical Scholars Research Provides an opportunity for student and faculty interaction, as well as academic credit and financial support, to medical students who undertake original research. Enrollment is limited to students with approved projects.
COMPMED399 Graduate Research Investigations sponsored by individual faculty members.Opportunities are available in comparative medicine and pathology, immuno-histochemistry, electron microscopy, molecular genetics, quantitative morphometry, neuroanatomy and neurophysiology of th...
COMPMED801 TGR Project No Description Set
COMPMED80N Animal behavior: sex, death, and sometimes food! Preference to freshman. Behavior is what makes animals special (thirsty plants don't walk to water), but why do animals behave the way they do? What does their behavior tell us about their inner lives, and about ourselves? What do lipstick and cuckoo...
COMPMED84Q Globally Emerging Zoonotic Diseases Preference to sophomores. Infectious diseases impacting veterinary and human health around the world today. Mechanisms of disease, epidemiology, and underlying diagnostic, treatment and control principles associated with these pathogens. ***This cour...
COMPMED85N Animal Use in Biomedical Research Preference to freshmen. How and why animals are used in biomedical science. Addresses human and animal disease entities and how animal research has contributed to the treatment and cure of disease. SignificantPreference to freshmen. How and why anim...
COMPMED87Q Laboratory Mouse in Biomedical Research What is a nude mouse and why is it used in cancer research? Why do my mouse pups have a different coat color than their parents? What is a knockout mouse? Answers to these and more are in this introduction to the laboratory mouse, one of the most wid...
COMPMED89Q Ouch it Hurts! The Comparative Neurobiology of Pain Preference to sophomores. Focus is on understanding the basic neurobiology of pain pathways. Topics include the physiology, pharmacology, and clinical aspects of effective pain management. In both humans and animals pain is part of the protective me...
COMPMED89SS The Neurobiology of Pain Whether from the sharp bite of a stubbed toe, the dull throb of an aching muscle, or progressive disease discomfort, pain acts as a natural defense mechanism to protect both humans and animals. It is critical for survival. Pain also serves as a warni...
COMPMED91N And that's why cats should never eat garlic! Did you know that although we love garlic, it could make cats very sick? And how come if a human or a dog gets a heart attack they'll end up with a scar, but some fish can regenerate parts of their hearts? In this course, we will explore how select d...