Medical Gross Anatomy

Catalog description

The Medical Gross Anatomy Course (hereafter, ‘Anatomy’) will provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the gross anatomy of the human body. Students will encounter and master the form and makeup of all regions of the body, including skeletal, muscular, neural, vascular, and organ systems. Students will learn the interaction and interrelationships among these systems. Students will learn general embryology of the body and most major organ systems of the body. Throughout this course, students will become familiar with basic radiological imaging modalities (X-ray, CT, MRI) and use these imaging modalities to interpret normal human anatomy. Although this course does not cover specific pathological anatomy, students will be led through a variety of clinical correlates and case studies that demonstrate normal form and function of the body so that students can recognize how abnormal functions may present in a clinical setting. This course takes a regional approach to the study of anatomy. This approach emphasizes anatomy not as a series of discrete facts, but as the interrelationship of multiple structures and systems. The course is designed to cover human clinical anatomy to the level of detail required by first-year medical students, consistent with recommendations and guidance published by the American Association of Anatomists (Balta et al. 2019, Gross Anatomy Learning Objectives for Competency-based Undergraduate Medical Education). By the end of the course, students will demonstrate their mastery of the material through their ability to identify anatomical structures, and answer questions concerning functional anatomy, developmental anatomy, anatomical relationships, and other dimensions of anatomical knowledge.