PhD - Doctor of Philosophy in Comparative and Experimental Medicine

Comparative and Experimental Medicine, an intercollegiate graduate program, serves to prepare students for careers in the health sciences. This program emphasizes the comparative approach to the study of biomedical science. The PhD program is especially useful for individuals with professional medical degrees. For the student with an undergraduate biological science background, the Comparative and Experimental Medicine program provides an unusual opportunity to study diseases and health in humans, animals, and the environment from a multidisciplinary perspective. The scope of this intercollegiate program, which pools faculty resources from both veterinary and human medicine, is broadened by faculty members representing public health and numerous life science disciplines. The interdisciplinary training environment provides students access to facilities, faculty, and other personnel from the College of Veterinary Medicine, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center at Knoxville, life sciences departments, Herbert College of Agriculture, Tickle College of Engineering, College of Nursing, the Department of Nutrition, and the College of Education, Health and Human Sciences. Participating departments from the Graduate School of Medicine include Anesthesia, Dentistry, Medicine, Medical Genetics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pathology, Radiology, and Surgery. Participating departments from the College of Veterinary Medicine include Biomedical and Diagnostic Sciences, Large Animal Clinical Sciences, and Small Animal Clinical Sciences.