Curriculum | MS in Pharmacology

What You’ll Learn

The curriculum consists of two components: core courses focused on pharmacology, biochemistry, and physiology, and elective credits for each student to tailor the program to their interests.

Students have two tracks for completing their elective credits: the Didactic Track and the Laboratory Research Track.

Didactic Track

The Didactic Track gives students the opportunity to tailor the degree to their individual interests through selection of elective courses to take alongside the core courses of the curriculum. In total, students will need to take 7 credits of elective coursework (generally 2 credits in the fall semester and 5 credits in the spring semester). There are a range of different courses to choose from to fulfill the elective credits, both from our department and other biomedical departments at Georgetown. Georgetown’s course schedule will have the full listing of all available courses for each semester; below are course areas where electives relevant to the MS in Pharmacology may be found. We also provide a list of recommended electives.

Laboratory Research Track

The Laboratory Research Track gives students the opportunity to engage in a research project for the academic year and have expert faculty as mentors. Students interested in going into a PhD program or laboratory-based career are strongly encouraged to choose the Laboratory Research Track. In addition to their PI, students are also mentored in the lab by people with advanced laboratory skills like PhD students, postdocs, and research professors.

Near the end of the academic year, students doing the laboratory research track prepare and present a poster about their research project. This is an excellent way to learn about scientific poster presentations and gives each student the opportunity to “bring it all together” at the end.

Learn more about the Laboratory Research Track.