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Human
Anatomy
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One
of the questions I am
most frequently asked is: "Why are you teaching human anatomy if you're
a paleontologist?"
The short answer to this is that there is much more demand for human anatomy courses than paleontology courses, so I teach what is needed rather than what is close to my area of research. The more accurate answer to this is that there are very few Ph.D. "human anatomists" anymore; instead, there are physical anthropologists and comparative anatomists (i.e., zoologists and paleontologists). For us paleontologists, humans really aren't that different from most other animals with backbones, so it's not too much of a stretch to go from studying fossil mammals to teaching the structure of modern humans. Conversely, for a graduate student interested in paleontology, taking a human anatomy course is a great way to learn about vertebrate structure in general. In fact, this is how I (and many other paleontologists) first got involved with human anatomy. I've been teaching it ever since. |
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| The Department of Anatomy
at
Case has a variety of graduate
programs in anatomy. All of these require at least
some core coursework in
the major areas of anatomy: gross
anatomy, histology, embryology,
and neurological
anatomy.
Anatomy 411 is the graduate gross anatomy course and it is taken by
medical students (who are pursuing a joint
M.D./M.S. degree), dental
students, and medical
illustrators, in
addition to M.S. and Ph.D. graduate students.
It takes place during the spring semester and meets M/W/F from 1:00 -
5:00 pm. I teach the head and neck section of the course,
which
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 Medical Gross Anatomy |
Department of Anatomy faculty are also responsible for teaching gross anatomy (and other topics) to students of the University Program of the Case School of Medicine. We recently implemented an innovative new curriculum that fully integrates the various medical subjects into a series of six sequential blocks, and anatomy is now spread out over the entire curriculum. Most of us help out with the anatomy in all sections of the curriculum to varying degrees. I also oversee the teaching of head and neck anatomy. |
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