Courses

ME.130.753

This summer course introduces students in the Nurse Anesthetist Doctor of Nursing Practice program to human anatomy using a regional approach. The course is broken into 3 parts – (1) thorax, abdomen, pelvis (2) limbs and back, and (3) head and neck. Within each part, information is presented on the relevant regional topics via: readings and lectures; student observation of prosections in lab; student collaboration to complete model- and computer-based activities.

The course is team-taught by faculty who teach anatomy to the first year medical students at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, together with graduate student teaching assistants from the PhD Graduate Program in Functional Anatomy and Evolution.

For more information on the faculty and graduate programs, visit other sections of our website at fae.johnshopkins.edu.

Evolution & Development of the Vertebrates

 AS:270.310

Intensive course taught to entering medical students and Ph.D. graduate students; includes lectures, small group activities (imaging, team-based learning, other), and full-body dissection. Modern vertebrates (animals with backbones) are the products of a more than 500-million-year evolutionary history. This course surveys that history and uses it to explore such core evolutionary concepts as adaptive radiation, convergence, extinction, homology, phylogenetic taxonomy, and tree thinking. Emphasis will be placed on the origins of the modern vertebrate fauna and how fossils are being integrated with developmental biology to better understand major transitions in the vertebrate body plan.

Primate Adaptation and Evolution

ME: 130.716

This course surveys the mammalian order primates beginning with the origin of the group and ending with a brief survey of modern primates. Topics include the definition of primates, archaic primates, the first modern primates, oligocene primates and the origin of monkey and apes, the Miocene hominoid radiation, the Plio-pleistocene radiation of old world monkeys, and human ancestors.

Introduction to the Human Skeleton

AS:020.365

Introduction to organ level human physiology, taught through the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. This course will provide a basic understanding of human skeletal biology, including bone composition and bone growth, recognition of skeletal elements, functional anatomy of different skeletal systems, comparative anatomy, and forensic anthropology (sexing and aging, body size reconstruction, bone pathology). Lectures will be combined with hands-on experience with bone models and real bone specimens.

Mammalian Evolution

AS:270.312

An introduction to the evolutionary history and diversity of mammals, with emphasis on the first half of the Cenozoic – the beginning of the Age of Mammals with a survey of the recent and fossil orders of mammals, focusing on comparative skeletal and dental anatomy. The course will focus primarily on the adaptive radiation of mammals (including our own order primates) that followed the extinction of the dinosaurs, exploring the origins and relationships of the major groups of mammals as well as the anatomical and ecological reasons for their success. Lectures will be supplemented with relevant fossils and recent specimens. Readings will be supplemented by regular examination of recent and fossil specimens and weekly discussions. Research paper required. 

Resources

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