Anatomy I

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Anatomy I is the first of a two-course sequence during the Summer of the first year in the DPT program. The course includes the detailed study of human structure using a regional approach with an emphasis on various systems, including nervous, pulmonary, endocrine, integumentary, muscular, skeletal, genitourinary, gastrointestinal, and cardiovascular. The focus of the course pertains to the relationship between anatomical structure and normal human movement with lectures that supplement human dissection laboratories and problem-oriented exercises. An introduction to the clinical reasoning process by applying anatomy to clinical cases will be discussed. Student must be a Physical Therapy major in order to register for this course.