MSI Schedule

MLC I: Case Studies for Integration of Basic and Clinical Science (Fall 2009)

Class meets on Thursdays from 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. in 1159 Weiskotten

Hypothesis Schedule:

Class session on Thursday afternoon

Hypothesis due by preceding Wednesday at midnight

Peer grading due by Friday at midnight

Aug	27	Read: The domino principle
Sept	3	Read: Of nicks and time
	10	No class this week: Unit I examination
	17	Read: Back to the basics (1999)
	24	Assignment: Evaluation and diagnosis of abdominal pain
Oct	1	Read: Hemoglobin jamaica plain: A sickling hemoglobin with reduced oxygen affinity Read: Genotypes and phenotypes - another lesson from the hemoglobinopathies
	8	Read: 27 year-old woman with fever, increased bilirubin level, and thrombocytopenia Read: Lessons from the interface of genetics and medicine
	15	No class this week: Unit II examination
	22	Read: Human hand allograft: report on first 6 months Read: Prospects for hand transplanatation Read: Hand transplant recipient throws in the towel
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Nov	5	No class this week
	12	Read: Case 40-2001
	19	Hypothesis due; case wrap-up
	26	No class this week: Thanksgiving holiday
Dec	3	Read: Red snapper or crab?
	10	Hypothesis due; case wrap-up
	17	No class this week: Unit V examination

Normal lab values at MGH [NEJM 351(15):1548, 2004]

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