Competencies and objectives

 

Course context for academic year 2016-17

Anatomy comprises the study of the structures that can be seen macroscopically (without the aid of magnification techniques), as well as microscopically (using such techniques). Microscopic Anatomy is also called Histology because the use of the microscope is intended for the study of tissues and cells, the basic components of the body organs. Anatomy is the basis for medical practice and, by extension, the basis of many other health science disciplines. It is essential to have a thorough anatomical understanding, in order to identify and interpret situations of pathology and disease in the human body or in any of its organ systems. Observation and visualisation are the primary techniques the student must use to learn Anatomy, as they are the basis for a proper physical examination, either directly or using modern imaging techniques.

Given the profile of the Optometrist as a healthcare professional, he/she must be able to perform tasks that benefit the health and wellbeing of people's eyes, including the prevention of visual system diseases and the exchange of information with other healthcare professionals. To acquire the relevant skills, it is first necessary to gain a basic knowledge of the human body and specifically of the visual system, which the subject "Human and Visual System Anatomy (HVSA)" provides.

HVSA is a 6 ECTS credit subject, which are equivalent to a total workload of 150 hours, including contact hours (lectures, practice, seminars, etc.) and self-study. HVSA is taught in the first semester of the first year of the Degree. As a core subject, it is related to other core and compulsory subjects of the syllabus, whose timing must be precisely and coherently coordinated to ensure the acquisition of professional skills for a Graduate in Optics and Optometry.

Thus, HVSA is closely related to the following subjects: Biology and Physics, taught in the first semester, and Physiology of the Human Visual System, Biochemistry and Statistics, taught in the second semester, which together comprise the basic training of the Undergraduate Degree. HVSA is also essential to understand other compulsory subjects taught in later years, such as Principles of Pathology (ST3), Pharmacology (ST4), Clinical Ocular Pathology and Public Health (ST5), and Psychophysics and Visual Perception (ST6). All of them require some prior anatomical knowledge on the general organisation of the human body, in order to deepen into their respective fields. Reciprocally, to understand the Anatomy basics it is necessary to advance into some concepts of these subjects that will be developed further in the Undergraduate Degree.

 

 

Course content (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees)

Specific competences (CE):>>Module 1: basic competences

  • CES21 : Understand and manage basic laboratory material and techniques.
  • CES4 : Understand cell structure.
  • CES5 : Understand embryonic development and organogenesis. Determine the development of the visual system.
  • CES6 : Use macroscopic and microscopic methods to recognise the morphology and structure of human body tissues, organs and systems.
  • CES7 : Use macroscopic and microscopic methods to understand and describe the structures making up the visual system and the ocular annexes.

 

 

 

Learning outcomes (Training objectives)

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Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2016-17

THEORETICAL OBJECTIVES

- Indicate the planes of the standard anatomical reference point and body movement terms.

- Describe the parts and regions that constitute the human body, their locations and anatomical relationships with systemic organs.

- Define the morphological characteristics of human embryonic development during embryogenesis, histogenesis, organogenesis and fetal development.

- Establish general anatomical concepts that define the osteology, Arthrology, Myology, Angiology and neurology.

- Describe the macroscopic overall structure of the respiratory, immune, endocrine, digestive, urinary, reproductive and tegumentary systems.

- Making a descriptive outline of embryonic origin of each of the anatomical structures that form the eye, ocular annexes and visual system.

- Represent and explain the topographic anatomy and anthropometry of the human vision system.

- Detail the location, relationships, shape and dimensions of the anatomical structures that form the walls and contents of the bony orbit.

- Specify general microscopic morphological characteristics of the layers of the eyeball wall and its topographical relations.

- Define the general macroscopic morphological ocular contents (media refracting) and their topographical relationships.

- To represent in a schematic picture the spatial location of the eyeball extrinsic muscles and its relationship to other anatomical structures of the orbital cavity.

- Describe the macroscopic characteristics, location and anatomical relationships of the ocular annexes: eyebrows, eyelids, conjunctiva and lacrimal apparatus (gland and excretory tracts).

- To explain the fundamental concepts of functional neuroanatomy of centers and visual pathway.

 

PRACTICAL OBJECTIVES

- Display pictures and video about scanning procedures by imaging and compare morphological techniques to study the constitution of the human body.

- Using anatomical models, images, videos and electronic resources to identify and describe the organogenesis in embryonic development of the human body in general and visual system in particular.

- Using anatomical models, images, videos and electronic resources to identify and describe the components of the osteoarticular and locomotor systems and organs located in topographic regions of the human body.

- Identify and point into scale anatomical models and in mute prints the skull bones that form the orbital cavity and all parts of the eye, ocular annexes and visual pathways of the visual system.

- Use the appropriate laboratory equipment to dissect an eyeball macroscopically animals and identify all parts.

- Get the ability to use the information and communication techniques for the morphological study of the human body and perform oral presentations into group projects.

- The acquisition of transversal competencies of a voluntary way with a teacher complements to acquire informational skills (CI2) 

 

 

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General

Code: 24010
Lecturer responsible:
GOMEZ VICENTE, MARIA VIOLETA
Credits ECTS: 6,00
Theoretical credits: 1,20
Practical credits: 1,20
Distance-base hours: 3,60

Departments involved

  • Dept: OPTICS, PHARMACOLOGY AND ANATOMY
    Area: HUMAN ANATOMY AND EMBRIOLOGY
    Theoretical credits: 1,2
    Practical credits: 1,2
    This Dept. is responsible for the course.
    This Dept. is responsible for the final mark record.

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