Anna Dee Fails, DVM, PhD Assistant Professor Office: 232 Physiology Building Education |
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Teaching Activities
Course Coordinator and Instructor:
VM 616, Functional Anatomy (Fall semester)
This is a required course for the first-year students in the Professional
Veterinary Medical Program. Students attend five one-hour lectures, one
hour of recitation, and four lab sections (2 hours each) each week. Gross
anatomy of the dog and the horse are covered comprehensively, with comparative
aspects related to feline, porcine and ruminant anatomy.
BS 545, Neuroanatomy (Spring semester)
This is a five-credit course in human neuroanatomy. Students attend three
one-hour lectures and two lab sections (2 hours each) each week. Our emphasis
is on the normal function of the nervous system and the clinical presentation
of dysfunction. We make extensive use of human and veterinary cases of
neurologic disease, presented in video format in the teaching laboratory.
Instructor:
VM 619, Veterinary Neurobiology (Spring semester)
I provide a series of lectures in this required course for the first-year
students in the Professional Veterinary Medical Program. The Veterinary
Neurobiology course emphasizes neuroanatomy in a functional context and
makes extensive use of case-based instruction and testing.
