84294 - Anatomy of Gastrointestinal System

Academic Year 2023/2024

  • Docente: Roberta Fiume
  • Credits: 3
  • SSD: BIO/16
  • Language: English
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 9210)

Learning outcomes

Identify the major components and topography of the gastrointenstinal system, and differentiate between organs of the alimentary canal and accessory digestive organs. Correlate the anatomy of the gastrointestinal system with its function. Describe the development of the gastrointestinal system.

Course contents

oral cavity

salivary glands

pharynx

oesophagus

stomach

small intestine

large intestine

rectum

liver

gallbladder

pancreas

peritoneum

thyroid gland

spleen

Readings/Bibliography

Gray's Anatomy, 41st Edition

ISBN 978070205230-9

Teaching methods

frontal lessons.

Attendance to learning activities is mandatory; the minimum attendance requirement to be admitted to the final exam is 60% of lessons. For Integrated Courses (IC), the 60% attendance requirement refers to the total amount of I.C. lessons. Students who fail to meet the minimum attendance requirement will not be admitted to the final exam of the course, and will have to attend relevant classes again during the next academic year.

Professors may authorise excused absences upon receipt of proper justifying documentation, in case of illness or serious reasons. Excused absences do not count against a student’s attendance record to determine their minimum attendance requirement.

“As concerns the teaching methods of this course unit, all students must attend Module 1, 2 [https://www.unibo.it/en/services-and-opportunities/health-and-assistance/health-and-safety/online-course-on-health-and-safety-in-study-and-internship-areas] online, while Module 3 on health and safety is to be attended in class. Information about Module 3 attendance schedule is available on the website of your degree programme”

 

Assessment methods

Student will be asked many questions to cover all the anatomy program.

Please remember also that:

The exam of the integrated course consists of 4 modules:

1 module about Biochemistry

1 module about Semeiotics

1 module about Anatomy

1 module about Physiology.

Given the integrated nature of this course, students must take all the modules in the same period (usually the tests’ dates of the four parts are all within 10 days).

If the student passes only one or two modules, all the 4 tests must be repeated.

If a student passes only three modules out of the four, the unsuccessful module can be repeated under 2 conditions:

1) each mark of the other three modules is equal or higher than 24. If a module mark is lower than 24, then the entire exam must be repeated.

2) the unsuccessful module must be repeated only in the next 2 available exam dates. If the student will not pass that module again, the entire exam must be repeated.

Please note:

In case one student wants to refuse a mark of 1 module, it is possible to refuse only one mark out of four (if each mark of the other three tests is equal or higher than 24), and in this case the ‘refused' module must be repeated on the next date.

 

Teaching tools

body dissection videos

Office hours

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