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ME33HA: HUMAN ANATOMY: DISSECTION WITH HISTORICAL CULTURAL & SOCIAL DIMENSIONS (2024-2025)

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Course Overview

ME33HA is a semester 1 30-credit Year3 MBChB course within the Medical Humanities SSC Block. In this course, students explore the historical evolution to the current day of anatomy/medicine and its intercalated connection with history, art, archaeology, and sociology. This course is centred around a self-directed clinically relevant historical project of students’ choice with an anatomical context. The course is based in the Anatomy Department. The methods of study largely involve self-directed research with weekly historical lectures delivered by experts from various fields, interactive tutorials, and library-based studies. Students will be assessed by historical research reports and group presentations.

Course Details

Study Type Undergraduate Level 3
Term First Term Credit Points 30 credits (15 ECTS credits)
Campus Aberdeen Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Dr Shahida Shahana

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • Either Programme Level 3 or Programme Level 4
  • Medicine (ME)
  • Any Undergraduate Programme

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

Yes

One or more of these courses have a limited number of places. Priority access will be given to students for whom this course is compulsory. Please refer to the Frequently Asked Questions for more details on this process.


Course Description

ME33HA is a semester 1 30-credit course within the Medical Humanities Block. In this course, students explore the historical evolution to the current day of anatomy/medicine and its intercalated connection with history, art, archaeology, and sociology. This course is centred around a self-directed clinically relevant historical project of students’ choice with an anatomical context. The course is based in the Anatomy Department.

The methods of study largely involve self-directed research with weekly historical lectures delivered by experts from various fields, interactive tutorials, and library-based studies.

Students will be assessed by:

  • Historical report on the historical evolution of a clinical topic with an anatomical context (50% weight).
  • Group Oral presentation on historical anatomical Model (30% weight)
  • Structured Written Assignment on current anatomy practices, death and body donation (20% weight).
  • Poster presentation (on the same historical report project). (Formative).

Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

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Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

Summative Assessments

Historical Essay

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Oral Presentation: Group

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Assessment of MSK

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Formative Assessment

There are no assessments for this course.

Resit Assessments

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Course Learning Outcomes

Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualCreateDemonstrate an understanding of the historical evolution to the current day of anatomy/medicine and its intercalated connection with art, archaeology, and sociology.
FactualRememberDemonstrate an in-depth knowledge of a specific region of anatomy in relation to a known the clinical procedure, or the development of that procedure.

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