The following courses are offered at the Terre Haute Center for Medical Education and may be taken for Rose-Hulman credit.  To enroll in these courses RHIT students need permission from the Chairman of the Department of Applied Biology and Biomedical Engineering.  BE623 and BE624 are typically offered in fall semester and BE621 and BE625 are typically offered in spring semester.  For more information on the individual courses see the THCME course web page.

BE621 Medical Microbiology  (6 cr.) - Lectures, conferences and laboratories covering the consequences of activation of the immune system; and viruses, bacteria, fungi and protozoan and metazoan parasites as organisms and as agents of human disease.

BE623 Gross Anatomy (8 cr.) - An intensive study of the gross structure of the human body accomplished through maximum student participation in the dissection of the human cadaver.  Lectures are interpretive and correlative.  Audiovisual supplementation is provided.

BE624 Biochemistry (6 cr.) - The chemistry and reactions of constituents of living matter, including the carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, nucleic acids, vitamins, coenzymes, and minerals; the chemistry and regulation of the reactions and processes of whole organisms; endocrinology; enzymology; nutrition; intermediary metabolism; and biochemical mechanisms in selected disease states.

BE625 Physiology (8 cr.) - The course in human physiology covers, in lectures and laboratories, such topics as circulation, respiration, digestion, endocrinology, heat metabolism, renal physiology, muscle physiology, and neurophysiology.