Northeast Campus

Anatomy

UND Medical School
ANAT 9301

Elective Director: Edward C. Carlson, Ph.D.

Offered: Periods 10 or 11 - All students selecting this elective must take it in the same time period.
Positions: 1-5

Objectives of the Elective:

  1. Students have an opportunity to dissect and read alone and at leisure, thus providing for review and reinforcement of anatomy learned in first year. As a result they must be able to answer somewhat more complex questions than those encountered in first year and in a more detailed manner.
  2. Students have opportunity for demonstration of and reflection on the relationships of muscles, bones, neurovascular bundles and connective tissue planes which they may illustrate by the use of simple diagrams.
  3. Students have opportunity for visualization of structures which might be damaged by disease processes or trauma and to devise approaches which would give safe surgical access to such structures with the least damage to collateral healthy tissue.
  4. Students have opportunity in appropriate regions of the body to gain understanding, demonstrable by simple diagrams, of how neuromuscular groups perform synergistically as functional units and how the body attempts to compensate for the loss of elements of the functional groups.

Instructional Activities:

  1. Students are provided with human dissection material appropriate to the goals of their dissection, a dissecting guide and an atlas.
  2. Conference with student before commencing dissection to ascertain student's needs and what he or she hopes to accomplish with the course.
  3. Agreement with student about exactly what is to be demonstrated during different stages of the dissection and agreement on levels of achievement as related to levels of evaluation.
  4. Daily visits to dissection room by faculty member to monitor student's progress, to suggest dissection methods, to discuss clinical matters related to the region under dissection, and to answer questions.
  5. Oral quizzing on approximately weekly basis depending on region and progress of dissection to monitor student's currency and understanding.
  6. Provide the student with ready access to the instructor.

Standards of Performance (Outcomes) Indicating Attainment of Objectives:

  1. Daily visits to student's dissection serves to monitor progress and quality of the physical dissection and student's ability to correlate the anatomy under dissection with its physiological function.
  2. Weekly oral quizzing serves to monitor student's integration of clinical and physiological material with the dissection.
  3. Student is informed on a continuing basis of the quality and progress of his/her dissection and ability to integrate the anatomy with its physiology.
  4. A final oral examination at the end of the student's dissection will evaluate the student's knowledge for the course as well as the total dissection.

Criteria for Grading:

  1. At the end of the student's course an evaluation is made of the quality and extensiveness of the dissection with reference to the levels of achievement agreed upon at the beginning. Cf. Instructional Activities, Items 2 and 3 above.
  2. A final oral examination at the dissection lasting 45 minutes to one hour covering the material dissected with emphasis on the student's knowledge of functional anatomy and knowledge of such clinical and surgical applications as may have been explored during the course.