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The Interdisciplinary Program (IDP) in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Florida College of Medicine is a Ph.D. graduate program consisting of six advanced interdepartmental graduate programs (concentrations) that cooperate in the recruiting, admission, and first-year training of graduate students, in preparation for specialized training by the individual advanced programs. The six advanced concentrations are Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Genetics, Immunology & Microbiology, Molecular Cell Biology, Neuroscience, and Physiology & Pharmacology.
The mission of the IDP is to provide a pre-doctoral educational experience that will train experimentalists and scholars prepared for a wide range of careers in biomedical science. The IDP curriculum is therefore designed to provide maximum flexibility for the training of biomedical research scientists. The educational goals of the IDP are to promote biological literacy by providing core and advanced curricula covering key chemical, biological and genetic principles using molecular, cellular and physiological approaches, and to promote scholarship in biomedical science through mentored, original research.