Advanced Human Anatomy - cadaver based

Catalog description

Advanced Human Anatomy is an in-depth human anatomy course with both a lecture and lab component. Lecture meets twice per week for 50 minutes, and lab meets once per week for 2 hours in the cadaver lab. In lecture, there is a focus on understanding anatomy in the context of development, histology, evolution, and clinical scenarios. Lectures also include clinical correlations, where students will apply their anatomical knowledge to understand general and specific clinical cases. Learning how to identify structures in various imaging modalities (including X-ray, CT, and MRI) is an important component of this aspect of the course. A typical lecture session often includes group-work on clinical application worksheets, completed with the help of the instructor and lecture assistants. Lab activities are conducted in the cadaver lab, and mostly focus on learning to identify structures on the cadavers. Students will also learn to identify anatomy on isolated skeletal elements, plastinated cross-sections and models, and occasionally on animal organs. In both lecture and lab, there will be an emphasis on understanding the 3-dimensional relationships between structures in the body. Examination of cadavers and real human cross-sections will greatly aid in this goal. Each week's lab activities are linked with that week's lecture topic. The course is organized regionally, meaning that each region of the body is studied in turn. This promotes a focus on understanding the interrelationships between body structures and systems. The course is divided into three blocks, each capped by an exam. The first block is Thorax, Abdomen, and Pelvis, the second block is Back and Limbs, and the third block is Head and Neck. Exams consist of written lecture exams and lab-practical examinations.