Courses will include lectures and/or laboratory exercises of 2 hours duration. 

During the laboratory exercises, anatomical preparation of the structures taught will be carried out on cadaveric preparations.

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, keynote) 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 are available online on the Laboratory website• Common software (e.g. MS excel) is used to statistically process student assessment.

Announcements, information etc are available online via e-class. Communication is also done via e-mail and social media.

• Use of three-dimensional anatomical models

The language of assessment is English.

Evaluation methods.Written exams – potentially online exams.

The general evaluation criteria are analyzed in the introductory lesson.

The aim of the course is to study and understand the interdependencies of the systems of the human body. In this sense the course is the basis on which the student will build his clinical thinking and approach to the patient.

Upon successful completion of the course the student will be able to: Have an understanding of anatomy in space 

Have knowledge of functional anatomy

Be able to distinguish topographical anatomy

Use anatomy in clinical practice and differential diagnosis

Analyse clinical findings on the basis of topographical anatomy

Can collaborate with fellow students to interpret clinical problems on the basis of anatomical relationships

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

Topographical anatomy focuses on the ‘region of the body’ and deals with what anatomical elements are contained within it. Topographical anatomy does not make a strict separation of systems, but studies all the systems together which are located in the anatomical region in question. In functional anatomy, the anatomy is studied from the point of view of the function of a particular structure or organ (i.e. by studying the shoulder region, for example, we will be concerned with which anatomical elements perform the abduction of the shoulder). In this way, the aim is to emphasize the relationships between the anatomical structures, their proximity and their cooperation in the functioning of the human body. The most important advantage is that the student will learn anatomy from a differentperspective, focusing on the three-d imensional correlation of structures from the surface to the deeper layers.

According to this approach, anatomical study is based on the regions or parts into which the human body is divided, emphasizing the relationships and function of the various systemic structures (muscles, nerves and arteries, etc.) within the region in question.

The human body is divided into regions as shown externally into: head, neck, upper limb, torso, lower limb. It is also divided into smaller parts such as the anterior cervical triangle, the abdominal cavity, the groin, the iliac crest, etc.

 Lecture Material

Main suggested textbooks:

Functional anatomy of kinetic system. Jutta Hochschild 2019

Clinical anatomy of the shoulder, Type: Book Α.H. Ζimpis, 1st ed./2017