Joint MS-MD Program at IU Med. and RHIT

MD/MS degree program in Medicine and Biomedical Engineering

Indiana University, Terre Haute Center for Medical Education and Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology have initiated a jointly administered, combined degree program to support the increasingly important field of biomedical engineering. The program provides students who are principally interested in the practice of medicine the opportunity for in-depth study in the application of engineering principals to important medical problems and medically relevant research in a biomedical engineering area of their preference. For students who principally view their career goals to lie in the engineering domain the program affords them an unparalleled opportunity to learn the normal structure and function of the human body, how they are changed in the diseased state and the currently accepted methods used for diagnosis and therapy. Graduates of the program will receive the degree of M.D. from Indiana University School of Medicine and the M.S. degree from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. It is anticipated that graduates of the program will be highly competitive for career opportunities in the clinical, academic or industrial arenas.

The program combines a 2 year M.S. Biomedical Engineering program and a 4 year M.D. program into a package which students can complete in only 5 years.

Admissions to the joint Master of Science/ Doctor of Medicine degree program is a dual process. Students entering the program will be independently accepted into the graduate program at RHIT and the doctor of medicine program at IU School of Medicine

Degree Requirements:

Students completing the joint MS/MD program will be required to fulfill all of the Indiana University School of Medicine requirements for the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Those requirements can be found in the I.U. school of Medicine Bulletin.

The student will also be required to complete the following RHIT Biomedical Engineering requirements:

51 quarter hours as follows:
36 hours - course work
12 hours - thesis work
3 hours - graduate seminar

Core Courses:

Human Physiology, 8 credits (at THCME)

3 of the following 4 credit courses (at RHIT)

BE525 Biomedical Fluid Mechanics
BE530 Biomechanics
BE535 Biomedical Optics
BE550 Biomedical Instrumentation
BE560 Biomedical Materials
BE561 Artificial Organs & Device Design

16 credits of technical electives are required. Satisfactory completion of the first year I.U. Medical School courses will satisfy 8 credits of this requirement.

Completion of a master's thesis based on a biomedical engineering research project is required.

Indiana University School of Medicine

The Indiana University School of Medicine was founded in 1903, and its first students were enrolled on the Bloomington campus. It was the fourth medical school in the United States after Johns Hopkins, Harvard and Western Reserve, to require two or more years of collegiate work for admission.

The Indiana University School of Medicine offers the first and second year of the regular medical curriculum at a number of regional campuses throughout the state. These include the Evansville Center for Medical Education (CME), Fort Wayne CME, Lafayette CME, Muncie CME, Northwest CME at Gary, South Bend CME and Terre Haute CME.

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology is one of the select few independent colleges of engineering and science in the U.S. It was founded in 1874 by Chauncey Rose, a pioneer industrialist and entrepreneur who saw the need for broadly educated scientists and engineers to help in the social and economic development of the nation.

Located on 200 rolling acres east of Terre Haute, Indiana in a suburban/residential setting, Rose-Hulman offers programs of study leading to the master of science degree in applied optics and biomedical, chemical, civil, electrical, environmental and mechanical engineering.

Faculty:

Richard A. Anthony, PhD, University of Illinois, Chicago, Associate Professor Applied Biology, Mendelian and molecular genetics, cell and molecular biology, translational accuracy in yeast, protein synthesis in mammalian mitochondria, uptake and metabolism of cytokinins in yeast

Walter X. Balcavage - PhD, University of Delaware, emeritus Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, THCME, action of extremely low frequency electromagnetic fields on biological systems.

Christine A. Buckley - PhD, Northwestern University, Associate Professor, Mechanical & Biomedical Engineering, materials, tissue engineering , biomaterials design and evaluation of orthopedic prosthetic devices, corrosion, corrosion of surgical alloys

Robert M. Bunch - PhD, University of Kansas, Professor of Physics & Applied Optics, biomedical optics , fiber optics, optical properties of solids, lasers, laser illuminated elastic light scattering

Taihung Duong, PhD, University of California at Los Angeles, Associate Professor of Anatomy, THCME, neurobiology, neuro-generative disease, neural transplantation.

Mary Johnson, PhD, Indiana State University, Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, THCME, Immunology

Roy Geib, PhD, Texas Health Science Center at Dallas, Director, Terre Haute Center for Medical Education, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, THCME, virology and immunology, molecular biology of host-controlled resistance to oncogenic viruses

Keith E. Hoover - PhD, University of Illinois, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, digital and microcomputer systems, electromagnetics, neural network applications

Samuel F. Hulbert - PhD, Alfred University, President, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology & Professor, Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering, material engineering, ceramic engineering, biomaterials, artificial organ and prosthetic device design

Charles Joenathan - PhD, IIT(Madras, India), Professor and Head, Physics and Applied Optics, optical data processing, Holography, Holographic Optical Elements (HOE), Speckle phenomena and techniques Holographic recording materials

Michael W. King, PhD, University of California at Riverside, Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, THCME, molecular and developmental biology, studies of oncogene and growth factor function in early development

Dennis A. Lewis, PhD, University of Connecticut, Professor of Chemistry, synthetic organic chemistry, chemical and biological warfare defense, synthesis of high octane hydrocarbons, synthesis of biologically active compounds

Howard L. McLean, PhD, University of Wyoming, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Environmental geology Analytical chemistry, liquid chromatographic separations, electroanalytical detection of trace metals and pharmaceuticals

Margaret M. Moga, PhD, Loyola University of Chicago, Associate Professor of Anatomy, THCME, Neurobiology, neural basis of circadian rhythms

Gabi Nindl, PhD, University of Hohenheim (Stuttgart, Germany), Assistant Professor of Cellular and Integrative Physiology, THCME, non-invasive regulation of growth and development, medical applications.

Luanne F. Tilstra, PhD, Louisiana State University, Associate Professor of Chemistry, physical chemistry of biopolymers, physical chemistry of polymeric systems, environmentally degraded polymers

Lee Waite, PhD, Iowa State University, Professor and Head, Applied Biology and Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering, biomedical fluid mechanics, biomedical instrumentation, computer graphics and image processing

Art Western, PhD, Montana State University, Vice President Academic Affairs, Dean of Faculty, Professor of Physics and Applied Optics, solid state physics, optical holographic interferometry, optical methods in biomedicine