Gross Anatomy

1. Every Tuesday at 9:25 AM a comprehensive quiz will be given. I will count your 8 highest lecture quiz grades. If you accumulate more than 8 lecture quizzes, then each additional perfect score will add one point to an exam. score. Missing a quiz for any reason will result in a zero for that quiz. The quiz average will count 5% of average.

2. Every Thursday, a comprehensive lab quiz will be given. I will count your 8 highest lab quizzes. If you accumulate more than 8 lab quizzes, then each additional perfect score will add one point to an exam score. Missing a quiz for any reason will result in a zero for that quiz. The quiz average will count 5% of your average.

3. All lecture exams are comprehensive. Each exam will include lecture notes, questions about diagrams and the green boxes from each chapter we have covered. Green boxes are also comprehensive on each exam.

4. All lab exams are comprehensive. Exams will include cadaver structures, models, Rohen pictures, radiographs, and cross-sections (all are comprehensive).

5. Graduate Students: If you are taking this course as 5410, you are required to complete a 12-page paper on an anatomy topic. You will have discussion questions from your paper on your final exam. Please see instructor.

There will be four exams. All exams are comprehensive:

weighted exam scale

Exam 1-(undergraduate 10%) (graduate 7.5%)

Exam 2- (undergraduate 15%) (graduate 13.5%)

Exam 3- (undergraduate 25%) (graduate 22.5%)

Exam 4-(undergraduate 40%) (graduate 36.5%)

Grading Scale

A 85.00-100%

B 75.0-84.9%

C 65.0-74.9%

D 60.00-64.9%

F 59.9% and below.

Graduate grading scale

A: 85.00-100%

B+:80.0-84.9%

B: 75.0-79.9%

C+: 70.0-74.9%

C: 65.0-69.9%

D;60.00-64.9%

F:59.9% and below.

Attendance:

Lecture starts at 9:25 AM and 1:30 PM. Excess tardiness will result in loss of exam points.

Strict adherence to Mississippi College's class attendance policy will be followed. AAny student whose absences, whether excused or unexcused, exceed 25% of the class meetings will receive a grade of "F"in the course.@ See The Undergraduate Bulletin.

Missing an exam

Missing an exam due to an unexcused absence will result in a zero for that exam.

An excused absence is defined as an absence due to personal illness or death of a relative. You must have a letter from your physician before an excused absence is granted if you miss due to illness.

October 31 is the last day to drop this class.

Academic Integrity: Mississippi College students are expected to be scrupulously honest. Dishonesty, such as cheating or plagiarism, or furnishing false information, including forgery, alteration or misuse of College documents, records or identification, will be regarded as a serious offense subject to severe penalty, including, but not limited to, loss of credit and possible dismissal.

For further information on plagiarism and cheating, see the Mississippi College Bulletin.

If you need special accommodations due to learning, physical, psychological or other disabilities, please contact Dr. Buddy Wagner in the Counseling and Career Development Center. He may be reached by phone at (601) 925-3354 or by mail at PO Box 4063, Clinton, MS 39058.

Graduate Students

If you are taking this course as 5410, you are required to complete a 12-page paper on an anatomy topic. Please see instructor. You will have discussion questions from your paper on your final exam

Textbooks needed.

Gray's Anatomy for Students , by Drake, et. al.
Color Atlas of Anatomy, by Rohen and Yokochi
Atlas of Human Anatomy, by Netter
Cranial Nerves in Health and Disease, by Wilson-Pauwels, et. al.

Nasco’s Cross-Sectional Anatomy Workbook by Sether

This syllabus may be changed in order to meet the needs of the class.

Lecture Schedule

Week of	Topic
8-25	Skin, Back
9-2	Spinal Cord (9-1 holiday)
9-8	Upper Extremity
9-15	Thorax,
9-22	Thorax, Digestion: Exam I covering Skin, Back, spinal cord, upper extremity on 9-25 afternoon
9-29	Abdominal Wall, Urogenital
10-6	Urogenital,
10-13	Urogenital Fall Break October 13-14) [Exam II covering through Abdominal Wall (10-16)]
10-20	Lower Extremity
10-27	Lower Extremity, Neck October 31 is the last day to drop a class
11-3	Neck,
11-10	Neck, Head [Exam III covering through Lower Extremity (11-13) lecture only]
11-17	Cranial Nerves graduate paper due (11-20)
11-24	Ear/Eye Thanksgiving, November 26-28
12-1	Brain, {Final lab exam, Thursday, December 4, 1:30)
12-8	Review
12-13	Saturday, December 13, 2008 at 8:00

Date	Lab Quiz/Exam Material
8-29	NO quiz-All bones on pages 2-3 of lab objectives. Skin and breast models Cadaver spine/pelvis(only the structures we discuss in class) (Structures 1-31 on list)
9-4	All bones on pages 2-3 of lab objectives. Skin and breast models Cadaver spine/pelvis(only the structures we discuss in class) (Structures 1-31 on list)
9-11	All of above plus radiographs of back, skin, breast, spinal cord. cadaver upper extremities, model of hand, model of torso, models of upper extremity,
9-18	All of above plus Rohen pictures of spinal cord, back, upper extremity, skin/breast, brachial plexus (all on page 8 of Rohen picture section and stop at muscles of thorax and abdomen on page 9 of lab objectives) Cadavers of hand and shoulder models of ligaments of shoulder and elbow and radiographs of upper extremity.
9-25	Exam 1 all of above
10-2	All of above plus Cross sections of thorax, Rohen pictures and radiographs of thorax, cadaver hearts, models of lungs, pulmonary tree and heart,
10-9	Models of abdomen and all organs of abdomen, cross sections of abdomen and radiographs of abdomen and Rohen pictures of abdomen
10-16	Exam II – All of above-
10-23	All of above and Pelvis bones, models of pelvis (male and female), cadaver kidney, models of kidney, cadavers of pelvis (both the LE cadaver structures and pelvis cadavers),
10-30	All of above and, bones of lower extremity, lower extremity cadavers including LE, knee and foot, Lower extremity models, models of hip with ligaments, models of knee and foot, spine/cadaver cadaver
11-6	EXAM 3-lab only All of above and Lower extremity radiographs, Lower extremity Rohen pictures, Rohen pictures of urogenital region, pelvis cross-sections, pelvis/urogenital radiographs
11-13	No quiz—lecture exam is Thursday afternoon.
11-20	All of above and Bones of skull, Models of head and trachea, Head cadavers including trachea cadaver
11-27	Thanksgiving – class does not meet.

12-4	Exam IV All of above and cross sections of head, radiographs of head, Models of eye and ear, Rohen pictures of head/neck/eye/ear