GROSS ANATOMY (6.0 credit hours)
Faculty: Dr. Makhdoom Khan, Dr. Donald Matz, Dr. Muhammad Spoctor, Dr. William Dyche, Dr. Rachel Dunn, Dr. Julie Meachen
Ingredients:
Lectures by Anatomy faculty
Lecture handouts
Gross lab dissection of the human body, guided by faculty & second-year MSA assistants
Bone model check-outs (taken home & shared by the lab group for the duration of the course)
Lab attire: scrubs, close-toed shoes, full-length lab coat, non-latex gloves, safety eye wear
Dissection kit: scissors, probes, forceps, hemostat, disposable scalpels
This course consists of:
6 cumulative exams (testable material is specified by email prior to each exam, don’t panic)
5 section gross laboratory practical exams (taken concurrently with written exams)
Lab groups (5 students to each cadaver)
Extra credit opportunities: Grand Rounds & Advanced Dissection Seminars
Recipe for Success (from the kitchen of Audris Fan):
Our class was the first to take Gross Anatomy as a year-long course, instead of finishing it in the first semester like students from the years previous. Some people love it, some people hate it. You can look at the formatting change in one of 2 ways: a good opportunity to commit information into long-term memory or one year of prolonged torture. The course was designed to be integrated with Clinical Medicine and, sometimes, there is good overlap! But sometimes, there isn’t. For the gross labs, take advantage of the TAs and seek them out to review lab material with you, after hours or on the weekends, as often as you can! Utilize the library as a resource for checking out other models & skeletons to study from; materials that are checked out after 9pm can be kept overnight. There is also an online resource provided by the library called Anatomy.TV that utilizes 3-D images for learning gross anatomy.
For lecture material, it is always helpful to use the textbooks (Netter’s and the “Dead Book”) as references and to clarify any material that might be confusing. There are numerous websites that offer sample practice questions: check out the University of Michigan’s practice gross lab practicals at http://www.med.umich.edu/lrc/coursepages/m1/anatomy2010/html/courseinfo/mich_quiz_index.html and http://ect.downstate.edu/courseware/haonline/quiz/practice/u3/quiztop3.htm for starters. Don’t forget to utilize YouTube as a visual aid to learn any difficult concepts, especially for embryology. On the written exams, be wary of Dr. Khan’s questions that start with “From the dissector guide…” in which he will ask you to recall details about the relationship between 2 structures’ locations or the defining feature(s) of a particular structure. There are some clinical vignettes on the exams, but most questions are not written that way.
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