Face to Face:
Teaching of Organogenesis – Developmental Disorders and Clinical application consists of lectures, seminars/tutorials and laboratory practical. The lectures content is described above.
Seminars/Tutorials (in 5 student groups with 1 instructor per
group) review and extend the lectures content. In each tutorial, students familiarize themselves with the basic elements per unit and prepare for the laboratory exercises.
Laboratory exercises (in 5 student groups of students, 1 instructors per group of 25-28 students) composing the students’ practical are complementary to the lectures and they aim to familiarize the student with the application of techniques, the operation of simple laboratory instruments and the experimental procedures that are often used in Organogenesis – Developmental Disorders and Clinical application as well as to help the students
comprehend concepts that are not easily presented theoretically (learning based on practical experience). 

Attendance of Laboratory Practical and Seminars/Tutorials is obligatory.

Information and Communication Technologies are used for the preparation of the lecture material, the online information and provision of supplementary learning material to students.
Specifically:
• Common software (e.g. MS powerpoint) is used to prepare lecture material and display slides and videos.
• The study guide (detailed supplementary material & additional bibliography), the tutorial material (clinical cases), the theory and protocols of the laboratory exercises, the slides of each lecture as well as relevant videos and scientific articles made available electronically and online to students through the e-class system of our university.
• Information about the course, instructors and their research interests and in general the department of Histology and Embryology of the Faculty of Medicine are available online on the Faculty of Medicine website
• Common software (e.g. MS excel) is used to statistically process student assessment.
Announcements, information etc are available online via email.
Communication is also done via e-mail (embryologyhistologylab@ uth.gr).

The language of assessment is English.
Evaluation methods.

A. For the laboratory practical: Written test in the middle of the semester with 7 questions and problem solving. The participation of students in the laboratory exercises is mandatory.

B. For the Tutorials:
In each tutorial, students go deeper to the theoretical
background of the laboratory exercises that will follow. The
performance of the students during in the tutorials is taken into account in the final evaluation. The material of the tutorials is examined together with the laboratory examination.

C. For the lecture material: Written Exams with multiple-choice questions. The course exams are written and consist of multiplechoice questions. The material to be examined is lectures and tutorial material as described above.

Final Grade:
The final grade of the course is calculated as the sum of the grade of the written course exams and the grade of the Laboratory written exams.

Aims of the course
The mission of the Embryology Laboratory is to introduce medical students to the Basic Principles of these subjects, their first contact with embryological preparations for the best possible understanding of the tissues of the human fetus and the offer of high-level university education aimed at further promotion of scientific knowledge and the Medical art and in the promotion of research and the acquisition of knowledge through the study, critical evaluation and research of the programs’ relevant areas of knowledge.

The course is a key tool in the undergraduate curriculum for students to understand the basic principles of the beginning of life that is the subject of Embryology. 
The course material aims to fully understand all the principles of Embryology, Organogenesis and congenital disorders, and to introduce students to the basic clinical concepts of the development of the structures of the human body.
Also, it refers to the concept of acquiring students’ inductive thinking which is deemed necessary for the proper initiation of students to the function of the Doctor.

In this sense, the course is the basis on which the student will be able to understand and come into contact with other courses of the study program (anatomy, histology, basic anatomical and embryological principles of all preclinical and clinical special courses).

Finally, the aim of the course is to understand the importance of Organogenesis and the complaints of constitution in the context of understanding clinical specialties such as Obstetrics and Gynecology, Embryo-Uterine Medicine and Neonatology and in the context of obtaining a title in the above specialties.

After the successful completion of this course, the students will be able to:
• Understand the important concepts and principles of Embryology, Organogenesis, and Embryo-Uterine Medicine as well as knows the main congenital anomalies.
• Acquire knowledge of the Organogenesis course and related anomalies.
• Is able to distinguish embryos and their structures, and their development during fetal life.
• Uses the terms correctly and combine the basic knowledge with the basic principles of related subjects such as Anatomy and Histology, Obstetrics, Gynecology as well as Neonatology.
• Analyzes and correctly presents the induction (principle of creation of the tissues of the human body) and their maturation into the final structures-tissues of the human body, knows the pathophysiology and explains embryologically the congenital disorders of constitution. Cooperate with their colleagues in the context of a lab environment to write papers and conduct basic research for presentation at student conferences.

General Abilities

• Research, analysis and synthesis of data and information, using the necessary technologies
• Adaptation to new situations
• Decision making
• Autonomous work
• Teamwork
• Exercise criticism and self-criticism
• Promoting free, creative and inductive thinking