Master of Science
Anatomical Sciences
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Master of Science in Anatomy,
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ANAT 801: Educational Development
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This course will give graduate students the opportunity to enhance their general anatomical knowledge and explore in greater detail areas of the body that were covered only superficially in previous coursework. This course will enable students to enter their fields of interest prepared to effectively teach pertinent concepts and applied anatomy in that field, as well as allow students to prepare a body of work with educational value for future students by developing educational materials through dissection or other media forms, such as computer or medical imaging. Students will learn various techniques involved in the preparation of cadaveric material for display and teaching, including dry bone/ligamentous preps, plastic embedding, and various plastination procedures.
ANAT 802: Graduate Anatomy Special Regional Dissection
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This course allows students to hone their dissection expertise, as well as their academic and three-dimensional understanding of a particular body area through detailed cadaveric dissection.
Students will produce prosections for the department while gaining a chance to learn a particular region of the body in great and professional-level detail, well beyond that covered in the standard anatomy course. Project topics focus on four regions: head and neck; back and thorax; extremities; and abdomen, pelvis, and perineum. Each regional dissection will be limited to the appropriate area and will be a complete dissection of all the structures within the topic area, either through one or a series of dissections. Each project will be researched, dissected, and presented to the faculty and peers of students involved.
ANAT 803/ANAT 813: Instructional Development I/ Instructional Development II
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Instructional Development is an elective or selective to assist students with the development of their teaching skills and topic proficiency by providing teaching opportunities in the core anatomical science courses (Human Gross and Developmental Anatomy, Embryology, Histology and Cell Biology, or Neuroanatomy). This course is designed to provide students with practical teaching experience as a teaching assistant. They must either pass the course that they wish to teach with a minimum passing grade of B, or they must have permission from the course director to waive this prerequisite. As graduate teaching assistants, they will be required to attend and teach in the relevant labs, in addition to the preparation and delivery of two lectures throughout the term to faculty and, upon approval of faculty, to students of the course. This practical experience is a crucial part of any educator's training. Students are eligible to take this course twice. The first is Instructional Development I (ANAT 803) and the second is Instructional Development II (ANAT 813). Students cannot apply these to the same core subject. If they elect to take both courses, they must select two of the four core anatomy courses (Human Gross and Developmental Anatomy, Embryology, Histology and Cell Biology, or Neuroanatomy). Letter grades will be based on the course director's evaluation and the delivered lectures to colleagues and other course instructors, as well as to students of the course. The subjective evaluation of attendance and work effort in relevant labs, as well as the quality of oral presentations will be considered as a component of the grade. It is intended that students will be formally evaluated at the end of the term by the students of the course, but it is up to the course director as to whether or not to use this feedback in their evaluation.
ANAT 804: Seminar in Anatomical Sciences
A core course requirement for the MSc and PhD, this course aims to provide an awareness of important current issues in clinical anatomy education and improve student understanding of both the educational issues confronting the profession and the ethical issues associated with the use of human tissue. Members of the department will meet with graduate students to discuss topics, to be determined by the course director, that are issues in the field of clinical anatomy education. The seminar will be held three times each term and graduate students will participate in the seminar for a minimum of four terms. The course is graded as satisfactory/unsatisfactory and performance will be determined by the level of student participation in the discussions over the four terms.
ANAT 805: Biomedical Research Methods
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The students will explore basic and modern methods for the study of cells and tissues, including biomethodology of laboratory animals and use and care of laboratory animals to be discussed. The course will foster the understanding of the principles and practice of tissue culture and tissue processing for insitu localization of cellular and subcellular molecules by chemical and immunological reactions, as well as dye staining techniques. The researcher idea will be examined to identify the role of critical thinking in problem solving. Critical review of biomedical literature as well as the capacity to develop high quality research proposals will form a major focus of the course.
ANAT 806: Fundamentals of Microscopy and Imaging
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The course consist of lectures, laboratory exercises, demonstrations and discussions that will enable students to obtain and interpret microscope images of high quality, to perform quantitative optical measurements and to produce video and digital records for documentation and analysis. Principles of image formation and microscope design will be discussed, alongside clarification and types of Light microscopy. Types of cameras, analog and digital image processing and analysis, as well as an introduction to fluorescence microscopy and application of optical methods to live cells will be explored.
ANAT 814: Cells & Tissues
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Cells & Tissues is the first course in the Anatomical Sciences graduate curriculum and serves as a foundation in histology, cell biology, gross and developmental anatomy. The course consists of lecture, laboratory and online activities. Graduate students participate in specific lecture and laboratory components of the Foundation to Medicine module of the year one medical curriculum and have additional lecture and laboratory sessions unique to the graduate program. Major topics include: organization of the cell; cell division; cell death; cell adaptation; epithelial tissue; connective tissue; integumentary system; introduction to anatomy; introduction to the nervous system; introduction to autonomics and early embryology.
ANAT 815: Musculoskeletal System
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The course examines the histology, cell biology, gross and developmental anatomy of the muscular and skeletal systems. The course consists of lectures; laboratory activities for histology, anatomy and medical imaging; and additional training in physical examination skills. Graduate students participate in specific lecture and laboratory components of the MSK module of the year one medical curriculum with additional laboratory activities unique to the graduate program.
ANAT 816: Cardiovascular, Respiratory & Urinary Systems
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The course examines the histology, cell biology, gross and developmental anatomy of the interrelated Cardiovascular, Respiratory & Urinary systems. The course consists of lectures; laboratory activities for histology, anatomy and medical imaging; training in physical examination skills. Graduate students participate in specific lecture and laboratory components of the Cardiovascular, Pulmonary and Renal module of the year one medical curriculum with additional laboratory activities unique to the graduate program.
ANAT 817: Endocrine & Reproductive Systems
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The course examines the histology, cell biology, gross and developmental anatomy of the Endocrine, Male Reproductive & Female Reproductive systems. The course consists of lectures; laboratory activities for histology, anatomy and medical imaging; and additional training in physical examination skills. Graduate students participate in specific lecture and laboratory components of the Endocrine and Reproductive module of the year one medical curriculum with additional laboratory activities unique to the graduate program.
ANAT 818: Digestive System
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The course examines the histology, cell biology, gross and developmental anatomy of the digestive system. The course consists of lectures; laboratory activities for histology, anatomy and medical imaging; and additional training in physical examination skills. Graduate students participate in specific lecture and laboratory components of the digestion & Metabolism module of the year one medical curriculum with additional laboratory activities unique to the graduate program.
ANAT 819: Head & Neck
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By presenting clinical case studies the graduate student will learn to interpret the patient's history and linking the information to anatomical, embryological and physiological basic science knowledge, while further questioning the 'patient' in each case study by following the acronym VINDICATES developing concept maps. The goal is not necessarily to establish a correct diagnosis. The thought process behind the various differential diagnoses, the manner in how they can be verified or refuted, and ultimately what possible basic medical/surgical therapeutic action(s) and their explanation is important. The graduate student will apply their gross human and developmental anatomy knowledge in a practical clinical manner facilitating their ability to teach anatomy of the head and neck based on understanding clinical principles and surgical approaches. This experience will assist the graduate student in writing MCQs with a clinical stem and valid distractors. This approach is then applicable to other regions in the body.
ANAT 820: Graduate Gross Anatomy
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An independent study course that aims to provide graduate students with the knowledge of gross anatomy necessary for postgraduate teaching, Graduate Gross Anatomy goes beyond the level attained in the Human Gross and Developmental Anatomy (ANAT 550) course and includes historical perspectives and anatomical variation. Students will be responsible for preparing full-body prosection following the same sequence as the dissection in Human Gross and Developmental Anatomy. The prosection will be used as a teaching specimen for current ANAT 550 students. Students will work under the supervision of a full-time member of the department. Students will be responsible for assigned readings for the area prosected and will be evaluated by oral examination periodically. The course will be taken the term immediately following the completion of Human Gross and Developmental Anatomy.
ANAT 831: Anatomy Prosection and Preservation
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The goals of this course are to improve students' understanding of a region or regions, improve their dissection and presentation skills, develop a body of high-quality teaching materials with anatomical purpose, and develop the ability to discuss and educate others on a particular region of the body. Graduate students are provided the opportunity to enhance their general anatomical knowledge and explore in far greater detail areas of the body that were covered only superficially in their previous coursework. They will learn the finer anatomical points of the body, as well as be exposed to and trained in the various means of specimen preparation, preservation, and display available today. They will be able to revisit anatomical areas of interest to obtain a deeper understanding of those areas, in addition to the production and study of detailed anatomical preparations for future application in their teaching careers. This one- or two-term course will give participants the opportunity to undertake detailed, professional-quality dissections of the human body. The various techniques involved in the preparation of cadaveric material for display and teaching include dry bone/ligamentous preps, plastic embedding, and various plastination procedures. This course gives a letter grade and involves 24 lecture hours and 70 lab hours. A formal 50-minute seminar/presentation must be presented to departmental faculty and invited guests a minimum of twice per term, as well as a formal presentation of the students' finished program projects will be given to peers and faculty.
ANAT 890: Capstone Anatomical Sciences
Students are required to meet or follow-up with their Faculty Advisor to discuss their ideas for the paper as needed. A final paper and its presentation must be completed before a grade will be awarded.
Proposal: Significance of Problem/Question
Students will write a persuasive argument (two to three pages), supported by published literature, describing/ defending the significance of their chosen question or topic.
Preliminary Review of Literature: Relevance Screening
Students are required to review a minimum of 50 abstracts to determine their relevance to their chosen question or topic. These abstracts must be of peer-reviewed articles and submitted to the program supervisor and GAC.
Quality Assessment and Data Extraction
Students are required to select the 15 most relevant articles from the 50 reviewed abstracts of peer-reviewed articles that are relevant to their topic. They must submit a summary of each of the 15 most relevant articles, including the statistical and/or scientific merit of each.
Findings
The final paper will be a report on the synthesis of these articles, emphasizing their usefulness to the student's question or topic. This report cannot be more than 10 pages and must be organized according to the following outline:
- Title
- Abstract
- Introduction: Describes the selected topic and summarizes the significance
- Body: Summarizes the designs, outcomes, and data analyses of the articles reviewed
- Discussion: Synthesis of the reviewed articles, including the student's interpretation of their relationship to the initial question
- Conclusion
- References