Usually prior to starting the program, students will have selected a faculty member as principal advisor. All students admitted to the division will be required to enroll in the medical physiology course as soon as possible after admission and before the dissertation proposal, and obtain an average grade of B or better over all quarters. The student will - in the first two years - enroll in courses appropriate to the student's research interests as agreed upon in consultation with the principal advisor and the director of the graduate program. It is anticipated that courses deemed essential to the student's graduate training by the division occasionally will not be available in the Division of Molecular Biophysics and Physiology or other divisions of The Graduate College. In this case, arrangements will be made for the student to enroll in such courses at other institutions, and performance in these courses will be required to be at the same level as for courses at Rush. In certain circumstances, a program of supervised independent study may be recommended as an alternative to particular coursework. Individual course requirements may be exempted on the basis of a past academic record or by the successful completion of a special examination covering the content of the required course. Such exemptions will not be made automatically solely on the basis of a past academic history but will be judged on an individual basis by the division director and advisory committee. Unless waived, students will enroll in eight credit hours of coursework outside the Division of Molecular Biophysics and Physiology.

Course Offerings
The following courses will be available, subject to demand and limitation, to students within The Graduate College:

PHY 451 Physiology I
PHY 452 Physiology II
PHY 502 Introductory Membrane Biophysics
PHY 503 Physiology of Striated Muscle
PHY 504 Neurophysiology
PHY 521 Mathematical Methods for Physiologists
PHY 523 Circuit Theory and Practical Design
PHY 531 Physiological Modeling
PHY 532 Physiological Modeling
PHY 590 Special Topics in Physiology
PHY 598 Introduction to Research
PHY 640 Applied Electrophysiology
PHY 641 Molecular Mech in Control of Ion Permeability
PHY 651 Advanced Topics in Muscle Physiology
PHY 653 Problems in Synaptic Physiology
PHY 655 Sensory Neurophysiology
PHY 690 Research Topics in Physiology