ANA6105 - GROSS ANATOMY ONE
GENERAL SYLLABUS AND LECTURE SCHEDULE
SPRING TRIMESTER, 2004
Robert A. Walker, Ph.D.
Lead Instructor and Course Coordinator
Head, Department of Basic Sciences
Office: LL7B, Anatomy Center
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Phone: 568-3210 (office) or 568-3205 (Anne Johnson, Department Head Secretary)
Office hours: Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, 7:00-9:00 p.m., or by appointment.*
Thomas M. Greiner, Ph.D.
Lecturer.
*Meetings and other unforeseen circumstances may occasionally require my absence from the office during these times. If you stop by my office during scheduled office hours and I am not there, stick around a few minutes. Chances are I've just gone off to check my mail or take care of an errand and will be back very shortly. If I will be gone for an extended time, I will leave a notice on my door or leave word with the laboratory technicians or faculty secretaries. If you make an appointment to see me at a specific time, please make every effort to show up when you say you will, and please let me know if you will not be able to make it at the appointed time.
This course is composed of a gross anatomy lecture sequence and a gross anatomy laboratory sequence. There are several assist instructors in the laboratory. Most are faculty members and you will encounter most of them again as lead instructors of other courses later in the program. A few of them may be teaching assistants who are advanced students of exceptional academic standing and ability.
ATTENDANCE REQUIREMENTS:
Greater than 20% absence or noncompliance with specific attendance policies, detailed in course syllabi or the Health Center manual, will result in a grade of XF being awarded, in which case the entire course must be repeated in its entirety.
DISCLAIMER STATEMENT:
This syllabus is a representation of the course content, organization and evaluation processes. The faculty teaching this course reserve the right to reasonably alter the sequence of activities, evaluation and assignment dates, and evaluation and assignment methods or styles. Every effort will be made to inform the class members in advance of such changes. Students are responsible for following the syllabus and any changes instituted by the faculty.
HEALTH CLEARANCE POLICY
New York Chiropractic College considers it in the best interest of students to obtain appropriate and periodic health screenings. NYCC provides such health clearance examinations to all students through the Campus Health Center at no charge.
Policy Effective: January 4, 2000 Revision: October 14, 2003
LECTURE COURSE OBJECTIVES:
Upon completion of the lecture portion of this course, the student should have an understanding of the following:
1. The general systemic anatomical plan of the human body and a general understanding
of anatomical terminology.
2. The osteology and arthrology of the human axial skeleton.
3. The general plan of the peripheral nervous system and the distribution of spinal
nerves.
4. The musculoskeletal anatomy of the vertebral column, back, and thorax.
5. The anatomy and function of the thoracic viscera, with emphasis on the heart,
pulmonary system, and the autonomic nervous system.
6. The anatomy and distribution of the peripheral nervous system.
GRADING:
A = 90 - 100
B = 80 - 89.99
C = 70 - 79.99
D = 60 - 69.99
F = <60
Your final grade for the course will be determined from a combination of your lecture and laboratory scores. Fifty percent of your overall course grade will be based upon your lecture average, and fifty percent will be based upon your laboratory average. Dr. Bedford’s laboratory syllabus will fully describe the grading criteria for the laboratory. Because gross anatomy must be understood on both a theoretical and a practical level, failure of either the lecture or the laboratory portion of the course will result in failure of the entire course.
EXAMINATIONS:
There will be two written lecture examinations. The first examination will cover the introduction to anatomy, general body systems and the back. The final examination will concentrate on the soft tissues and musculoskeletal anatomy of the thorax. This final examination is cumulative, but will concentrate on the last third of the course. The first examination will count as 45 percent of your lecture score, while the final examination will count as 55 percent of your lecture score. This combined score for the two lecture examinations will account for 50 percent of your final grade for the course.
Make-up Examinations:
Make-up examinations will be given only under exceptional and extraordinary circumstances at the discretion of the instructor. The format and timing of such examinations will also be at the discretion of the instructor.
REQUIRED READINGS:
(NOTE: These texts will be used throughout the entire gross anatomy sequence in tris one, two and three, plus in the clinical anatomy course in seventh trimester. They will also serve as references for your other courses. Additionally, they will form a lifelong series of references for your later professional life.)
Skeletal and Developmental Anatomy for Students of Chiropractic, Walker, Lovejoy, Bedford and Yee
Essential Clinical Anatomy, Moore and Agur, Second Edition.
Anatomy: A Regional Atlas of the Human Body, Clemente, Fourth Edition.
Color Atlas of Anatomy, Rohen, Yokochi, and Lutjen-Drecoll, Fourth Edition.
REQUIRED LECTURE AND LAB MANUALS:
ANA6103 Lecture Manual and Study Guide, Walker and Bedford.
Skeletal and Developmental Anatomy for Students of Chiropractic, Walker, Lovejoy, Bedford and Yee
Dissection Manual: Back Musculature, Laminectomy, and External Anatomy of the Spinal Cord
Walker and Bedford.
Grant’s Dissector, Sauerland, Twelfth Edition.
RECOMMENDED ADDITIONAL REFERENCES:
Gray's Anatomy, Any edition, either American or British, but preferably one from the recent past. Paperback reprints of century-old editions are not recommended for serious study. While the body itself has not changed in the last hundred years, much of the terminology has.
Cunningham's Manual of Practical Anatomy, Volume Two: Thorax and Abdomen, Romanes, Fifteenth Edition.
Grant's Atlas of Anatomy, Agur, Ninth Edition
Stedman’s Concise Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions, Third edition.
Cross-sectional Human Anatomy, Dean and Herbener.
Color Atlas of Anatomy, McMinn and Hutchings
The Developing Human, Moore and Persaud, Sixth Edition.
Larsen’s or Langman’s embryology texts (Gray’s Anatomy also includes an extensive embryology section.)
LABORATORY SAFETY:
The New York Chiropractic College Anatomy Laboratory meets all state and federal safety requirements. Concentrations of chemicals in the laboratory are monitored, and we maintain chemical levels well below the requirements of OSHA standards. Remember that your instructors are concerned about this as well, as we are exposed to these chemicals up to or exceeding 12 hours per week, 45 weeks a year, year in and year out. We are concerned about your and our health. Chemicals used in the embalming fluid may include phenol, formaldehyde, methyl alcohol, glycerin, and water. MSD sheets are maintained by the Anatomy Department laboratory technicians and are available for viewing by any interested parties. Anyone desiring additional protection may purchase a chemical protective mask through the NYCC bookstore or elsewhere. The technical standards for the NYCC curriculum require the completion of a hands-on human gross anatomy dissection course.
LECTURE SCHEDULE:
Dates should be considered tentative, but this is the general sequence that the lectures will follow. Lectures are by Dr. Walker, unless otherwise noted. Please make an effort to read the assigned pages ahead of time. From time to time there may be unscheduled guest lectures of general clinical and/or scientific interest. Such guest lectures will be announced in advance and will be considered testable material. Dates for some guest lectures are listed, but they may in fact be scheduled sooner or later than the listed dates. If so, then the other lectures will occur a session or two earlier or later than the date currently listed. Lectures are Mondays, 1 to 3 p.m. and Thursdays 11 a.m. to noon in Academic Bldg. III, Room 226. All lectures by Dr. Walker unless otherwise noted.
DATE - TOPICS - PAGES
(M = Monday, T = Thursday)
May 6 (T) Introduction to Gross Anatomy. Walker et al., 1-10
May 10 (M) Body Planes, Sections, Terms of Relationship, Comparison, and Movement. Walker et al., 1-10; Moore and Agur, 1-8
May 13 (T) Introduction to Body Systems: Skeletal System Walker et al., 11-52; Moore and Agur, 10-17
May 17 (M) Introduction to Body Systems: Skeletal System. Walker et al., 11-52; Moore and Agur, 10-17
May 20 (T) Dr. Greiner: Embryology of the Vertebral Column Walker et al., 53-79; Walker et al., 106-109 and Handout
May 24 (M) Introduction to Body Systems: Skeletal System. Arthrology of the Axial Skeleton. Walker et al., 109-132; Moore and Agur, 17-20
May 27 (T) Introduction to Body Systems: Skeletal System. Arthrology of the Axial Skeleton. Walker et al., 109-132; Moore and Agur, 17-20
May 31 (M) Holiday, no class
June 3 (T) Arthrology of the Axial Skeleton. Introduction to Body Systems: Muscular System. Walker et al., 109-132; Moore and Agur, 17-20
June 7 (M) Dr. Thomadaki: Introduction to Body Systems: Nervous System. Moore and Agur, 17-20
June 10 (T) Dr. Thomadaki: Introduction to Body Systems: Nervous System. Moore and Agur, 17-20
June 14 (M)Dr. Thomadaki: Introduction to Body Systems: Nervous System. Moore and Agur, 17-20
June 17 (T) Dr. Bill Sherwood: Treatment and Management of Scoliosis (tentative date)
June 21 (M) The Superficial and Intermediate Back Muscles. Moore and Agur, 275-313; Walker et al., 298-300
June 24 (T) Dr. Mike Lentini: Clinical Anatomy of the Intervertebral Disk and Differential Diagnosis of Lower Back Pain (tentative date)
June 28 (M) The Deep Back: The Erector Spinae Muscle Group. The Transversospinalis Muscles. Suboccipital Triangle. Moore and Agur, 275-313; Walker et al., 300- 306
July 1 (T) EXAMINATION I.
July 5 (M) The Deep Back: The Erector Spinae Muscle Group. The Transversospinalis Muscles. Suboccipital Triangle. Moore and Agur, 275-313; Walker et al., 300- 306.
July 8 (T) Dr. Thomadaki: Spinal Cord and Meninges. Moore and Agur, 301-310
July 12 (M) Dr. Thomadaki: Spinal Cord and Meninges. Moore and Agur, 301-310
July 15 (T) Dr. Greiner: The Thoracic Wall, Pleural Cavities and Lungs. Moore and Agur, 52-60
July 19 (M) Dr. Greiner: Embryology of the Respiratory System. Moore and Agur, 70-82
July 22 (T) Dr. Greiner: Embryology of the Heart. Moore and Agur, 84-103
July 26 (M) Dr. Greiner: The Heart and Pericardium. Moore and Agur, 84-103
July 29 (T) Dr. Greiner: The Heart and Pericardium. Posterior and Superior Mediastinum. Moore and Agur, 83 ff. Moore and Agur, 84-103
EXAMINATION II (Final Examination) (Week of August 7)