ANAT 100 - Gross and Developmental Anatomy

[233 Hours]

This course consists of lectures and a laboratory in which students dissect an entire embalmed cadaver. The objectives of this course are to provide the first year medical students with the opportunity to learn the foundations of medicine and to introduce them to aspects of professionalism. Students learn the basic concepts of human anatomy and clinical applications of these concepts. Normal and abnormal prenatal development is also presented in lectures and demonstration labs. Lectures and lab dissections are supplemented by clinical correlations and hands-on exercises supervised by physicians from different specialties. A radiologist gives lectures on imaging of different areas of the body. A surgeon presents a weekly survey of important clinical issues related to the anatomy to be dissected each week. Each student has the opportunity to perform emergency procedures such as lumbar puncture, oral intubation, insertion of thoracostomy tubes, and urethral catheterization in the Cadaver Procedure Labs. A significant part of the course is designed to emphasize the clinical importance of the anatomy students are learning.