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Human
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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 are not that different from most other animals with backbones, so it is not 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 have been teaching it ever since. |
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| The M.S. in
Applied Anatomy in the Department of
Anatomy at CWRU is a non-thesis Master's degree with
core courses in gross anatomy, histology,
embryology,
and neurological
anatomy. The gross anatomy course, ANAT 411, is also
taken by medical students who wish to learn human anatomy
in greater depth, graduate students pursuing a
thesis-based degree in another department, and a few
undergraduates. I teach the head and neck section of ANAT
411, which runs for just over four weeks, mostly in April. |
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 ANAT 516 |
The Department of
Anatomy also offers a series of regionally-focused
advanced electives in surgical anatomy for M.S. in Applied
Anatomy students and fourth year medical students. These
courses are organized by Anatomy faculty but are mainly
taught by clinical faculty, especially surgeons. The labs
teach surgical approaches used to treat to common
pathological conditions. I teach ANAT 516, which focuses
on the head and neck and includes otolaryngologists,
neurosurgeons, and plastic surgeons, among other
specialists. |
 Medical Gross Anatomy |
Department of Anatomy faculty are also responsible for
teaching gross anatomy to students of the University
Program of the CWRU
School
of Medicine. We recently implemented an innovative
new curriculum that fully integrates the various
medical subjects into a series of six sequential blocks.
Anatomy is integrated into the entire curriculum as part
of a "longitudinal" block (Block 7) that also includes
histology and pathology. I oversee the anatomy curriculum
in Block 6, which focuses on head and neck and runs from
November through January. I also help out with other
blocks to a varying degree. |
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