CROSS SECTIONAL ANATOMY II

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Sectional Anatomy 2 emphasizes learning and understanding the gross three -dimensional anatomies of the regions of the head, neck, vertebral column, thorax and upper extremity of the human body, in transverse, sagittal and coronal sections. Through an activ e teaching/learning environment students were guided to, in the regions mentioned above: a) identify if a section is transverse, sagittal or coronal; b) correlate structures, particularly those of soft tissue, and skeletal constants, c) identify structures , in different sectional planes; d) observe a transverse, sagittal or coronal section and mentally reconstruct the three dimensional relationships of the area recognizing normal and abnormal relationships among corporal structures, and the level at which t he section was taken, and e) given a gross dissection of a region visualize the appearance and the relationships in the planar sections. Active teaching/learning in this course will be achieved through socialized discussions, power points presentations, cooperative work with models and planar sections, drawings, oral presentations and writing. Writing and oral presentation were used to analyze what the planar sections, and sonograms, CT and MRI images, showed in order for students to: build a functional/technical vocabulary, to relate information through comparisons and contrasting, and to present arguments that sustain their opinions regarding a problem or a new situation presented to them in an image of the head, neck, vertebral column, thorax and upper ex tremity of the human body. The course requires students to be responsible for their own learning and for completing adequately and on time the assigned duties .