Exercise Physiology for Health and Disease

3 Units

Lifestyle Medicine is a graduate level course designed to provide an understanding of the fundamentals of the physiological and biochemical principles of exercise physiology and the application of these principles in health and disease. As such, this course will prepare students for future study in advanced biomedical sciences. The course is three credit hours and will be offered in the both the Fall and Summer semesters of each academic year. Course content builds on knowledge learned in Medical Physiology and is designed to be taken concurrently or in series with Medical Physiology courses. Topics to be covered include physiology of exercise, metabolism, and the application of exercise to select diseases of the musculoskeletal, gastrointestinal, neurological, and cardiovascular systems.