Course Description: Regional approach to human gross anatomy through laboratory dissection of human cadaver.
Course Objectives: Students will be able to identify the common structures of bones, muscles, arteries, veins, nerves, regional triangles, joints, and viscera within the four regions (lower limb, back/thorax/abdomen, head and neck, upper limb).
Prerequisites: BMS 310
Format: 4 credits - 9 hours of laboratory per week
Semesters Offered: Fall
Coordinator: M. Frasier (Course Coordinator), S. Druecker (Laboratory Coordinator)
Text:
Required: Grant's Dissector, 13th ed., Sauerland
Suggested: Visible Human Dissector (CD - student version
or DVD - Pro version), Virtual Edge, Frasier and Giddings
Suggested Atlases:
Anatomy, A Regional Atlas of the Human Body, Clemente
Color Atlas of Anatomy, Rohen and Yokochi
Grant's Atlas of Anatomy, Anderson
Atlas of Human Anatomy, Netter
Course Outline:
| Weeks 1-3: | Lower Limb | |
| Weeks 4-7: | Thorax, Abdomen, and Pelvis | |
| Weeks 8-11: | Head and Neck | |
| Weeks 12-15: | Upper Limb |
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