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Individual Course
Human Anatomy: Musculoskeletal Cases
Course Length
7 weeks
3-6 hours per week
Featuring faculty from:
Harvard Medical School
Enroll as Individual
Certificate Price:
$ 209
Enroll as Individual
Certificate Price:
$ 209
Learn the anatomy basic to understanding five musculoskeletal injuries commonly seen in primary care medicine and orthopedic clinical specialty practice. Follow hypothetical patients from injury to operating room.
Human Anatomy: Musculoskeletal Cases invites learners to join medical and basic science faculty at Harvard Medical School (HMS) to learn about musculoskeletal injuries commonly seen in clinical practice.
For each case, students visit the HMS Clinical Skills Center to observe the initial patient encounter and physical examination by an orthopedic surgeon. Following the patient encounter, students complete the interactive gross anatomy, histology and radiology learning sessions essential for understanding the case. The anatomy learning sessions include observing actual dissections in the Harvard Medical School anatomy laboratories revealing and explaining the human anatomy relevant for each clinical case.
After completing the case learning sessions, students review pertinent radiology images, commit to a tentative diagnosis from a list of differential diagnoses, and accompany the patient to a virtual operating room to observe the surgical treatment. In the virtual operating room, students observe narrated videos of actual surgical procedures.
Clinical content for each case is developed in close collaboration with leading orthopedic surgeons and radiologists at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
This course will take you inside the anatomy laboratories where students entering medicine, dental medicine, and other health professions study anatomy by performing anatomical dissections. Content includes videos, photographs, and other content, including anatomical images and videos showing cadaver dissection, that some people may find offensive, disturbing or inappropriate.
The course will be delivered via edX and connect learners around the world.
Self-Guided
edX
- Learning Outcome
Learn the fundamentals of musculoskeletal anatomy.
- Learning Outcome
Understand basics concepts and procedures of radiology.
- Learning Outcome
Explore anatomical structures related to five common injuries.
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- Do it on your own time
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- Be part of the Harvard Community
Ways to take this course
Audit or Pursue a Verified Certificate
A Verified Certificate costs $209 and provides unlimited access to full course materials, activities, tests, and forums. At the end of the course, learners who earn a passing grade can receive a certificate.
Alternatively, learners can Audit the course for free and have access to select course material, activities, tests, and forums. Please note that this track does not offer a certificate for learners who earn a passing grade.
Faculty
Your Instructor
Michael Parker
Associate Dean for Online Learning, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Parker is an expert on innovative uses of technology in education. His interactive visuals have received awards and been honored by the National Science Foundation in its visualization challenge. He has had multiple teaching roles at Harvard Medical School, including lecturer and tutor in the pathophysiology course.
Your Instructor
Alexander George Bick, M.D., Ph.D.
Clinical Fellow in Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital
Dr. Bick was a MD/PhD student at Harvard Medical School and a digital learning technology aficionado. He has performed research at the Harvard Graduate School of Education on the use of personal digital assistants to enhance teaching and learning. More recently he has received funding from the Hauser Initiative in Teaching and Learning to develop new technologies to extend anatomy in virtual space using the Microsoft Xbox Kinect. Beyond AnatomyX, Dr. Bick studies the genetic basis of heart disease.
Your Instructor
Trudy Van Houten
Lecturer in Radiology, Harvard Medical School; Assistant Professor in Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine
Dr. Trudy Van Houten has taught anatomy and histology to Harvard medical students for over 20 years. She designed, launched, and currently directs or co-directs the advanced clinical anatomy elective for fourth-year medical students, two preclinical anatomy electives, structured anatomy reviews for surgery clerkship students, an advanced surgical anatomy course for general surgery residents at the Harvard-affiliated hospitals, and the core first-year anatomy course. Dr. Van Houten has developed novel anatomical dissection strategies and learning materials based on clinical procedures and surgical approaches. She is the recipient of numerous teaching awards including the HMS Faculty Prize for Excellence in Teaching and the Irving M London award. She has been nominated for the HMS Faculty Prize every year for the last 10 years.
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