Contact Information

• Cell phone: if you do not see the "Call Me" icon above, use the number given in class. Otherwise click on the icon above and enter your name and number in the boxes that appear. When you click "Connect", Google will call your phone and, when you answer, connect you with me. Or call my office phone below.

• Email (if you are a student of mine, please use the address in the class syllabus)

• Pmail: Life Sciences Department, Palomar College, 1140 W. Mission Road, San Marcos CA 92069

• Office phone: 760-744-1150 X2527

• Office hours for spring 2012 (beginning January 17th): MW 4-5 pm; TTh: 11:00 am - noon; 5-5:30 pm

• Office: NS-307A (NS building, third floor)

• Anatomy lab: NS-316 (NS building, third floor)

• Map of campus

• Map of NS building, third floor

ZOO 200: Human Anatomy

• Course description and prerequisites
• Textbooks
• Lecture notes and PowerPoints
• The Scantron form required for all lecture exams is 886-E (click link to see)

To Help You Prepare...

• Practice exams, quizzes, and lab practicums 
• Dr. C's anatomy model index
• Dr Francis's model page 
• PowerPoints of lab models
• Skeletal system photos/quizzes
• Professor Gene Gushansky's histology atlas (photos of slides from your slide boxes)
• PowerPoints of lab models

Reading Assignments for Alternative Texts

• Martini, 6th ed.

• Martini, 5th ed.

• Martini, 4th ed.

• Martini, 3rd ed.

• Tortora, 10th ed.

• Tortora, 9th ed.

• Saladin, 1st ed. 

• Wise, 1st ed. (lab manual)

Lecture

• Fall 2012 syllabus
• MW lecture schedule
• TTh lecture schedule
• Functions of the organ systems
• Lecture exam 1 objectives 
• Anatomical terms for first lab practicum and lecture exam
• Lecture exam 2 objectives 
• Muscle list (lecture exam 2 and lab practicum 3)
• Lecture exam 3 objectives
• Final exam objectives  

Lab

• MW lab schedule
• TTh lab schedule
• Terminology and histology (lab practicum 1)
• Skin (lab practicum 2)
• Skeletal system (lab practicum 2)
• Cat muscle list  (lab practicum 3) 
• Respiratory and digestive system  (lab practicum 4)  
• Heart and blood vessels (lab practicum 4)  
• Nervous system (lab practicum 5)  
• Eye and ear (lab practicum 5)  
• Urinary system (lab practicum 5)  
• Reproductive system (lab practicum 5)  

 Useful and Interesting Anatomy-Related Links

• A master list of anatomy links
• Thinkanatomy.com: an excellent collection of links for anatomy students.
• Excellent skeletal system site
• More skeletal system quizzes
• Skeletal system quizzes/slides (download and run the PowerPoints)
  Illustrated Encyclopedia of Human Anatomic Variation (a fascinating site! The typical body does not exist)
• Getbodysmart.com
• Mnemonic aids for anatomy students  
• Homepage of Dr. Candi Francis.  
• Dr. Francis'  mnemonic page
• The Anatomy Study Guide  by  Dr. Candi Francis, Palomar College:  Check out the links to the Bone Page and the Model Page. 
• Embryonic development animation as seen in lecture (by Albert O. Shar, University of PA School of Med.)
• Muscles of the cat (courtesy of Charles Harrison at Saddleback College)
• A great site for review of cat and human muscles
• Another nice cat dissection site
• An index of various spine surgery animations
• Gastroesophageal reflux disease animation (at a site run by AstraZeneca; this is not an endorsement by me of their products)
• Beating heart animation
• Sheep heart and sheep brain sites (by James Crimando of Gateway Community College, Phoenix, AZ)
• Lymphatic system movie
• Asthma video as presented in lecture Copyright: ©2000 The McGraw-Hill Companies (Requires the free RealOne Player for Windows to play: click to get)
• CSF circulation animation (Courtesy of the e*pub Group at the Center for Biomedical Informatics of the State University of Campinas, Brazil.) 
• Gallery of prominent people in the history of anatomy, physiology, and medicine
• WebAnatomy:  A very nice set of interactive, web-based quizzes from Dr. Murray Jensen at the University of Minnesota. 
• The Visible Human Project
• An excellent set of histology quizzes from the University of Minnesota

Biology Links

• Wayne's Word of Natural History by Professor Wayne Armstrong, Palomar College.

Yellowstone Field Course

• Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem Field Course - Next offering TBA

• Blog for the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem Field Course
   

  Career and Academic Information for Anatomy Students

• Athletic training
• Dental hygiene
• Dentistry
• Forensic science
• Kinesiotherapy
• Medicine
• Nursing
• Occupational therapy
• Physician assistant
• Physical therapy
• Respiratory therapy
• Palomar college career center
• More careerinformation from JobStar California: a great site packed with news about dozens of specific careers, as well as information on salaries, resume writing, "hidden jobs" and more.

   Scholarship Information

• How to apply for scholarships and financial aid at Palomar.
• The Financial Aid Information Page: a comprehensive, independent, and objective guide to student financial aid. An excellent place to start looking for scholarships!
• Scholarship stuff: various financial aid resources.
• California Student Aid Commission: lots of financial aid information for California students.
• CollegeNet: 2500 colleges listed with admissions information. Includes a scholarship search and online applications for colleges in the US and abroad.
• "The Smart Student Guide to Financial Aid": provides tools to locate and apply for college scholarships, internships, and loan opportunities.
• FreSch!: a free online scholarship search service with lots of useful information and additional links. Subscribe to their free weekly newsletter containing updated info on various scholarships.
• California AmeriCorps: a service program that allows people of all ages and backgrounds to earn help paying for education in exchange for a year of service.
• Scholarship scams: Information about bogus schemes that can cost you money!

    Health and Medicine

• eMedicine
• Healthcentral.com
• InteliHealth: Johns Hopkins Health Information
• Medical quackery exposed!
• HealthGate: includes a link to MEDLINE, which allows you to search numerous databases including the world's largest biomedical database.

  Pseudoscience and Modern Mythologies

• Fight ignorance!
• Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal
• Skeptics Society
• Urban legends
• Carl Sagan's "baloney detection kit"

  Some Highly Recommended Books

• How to Study : Suggestions for High School and College Students By Arthur William Kornhauser, et al
• What Smart Students Know : Maximum Grades, Optimum Learning, Minimum Time  By Adam Robinson
• Study Power : Study Skills to Improve Your Learning and Your Grades  By Wood Smethurst & William R. Luckie
• The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat  by Oliver Sacks.
• Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine by George C. Williams and Randolph M. Nesse.
• Phantoms in the Brain  by V. S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee

  Dr. C's Educational Background

• Ph.D. in Physiology, 1981; University of California at Berkeley
  
• B.S. in Biology, 1973; University of California at Riverside
  
• West Valley College, Saratoga, California 1968-70

Ponder the infinite 

A woodcut from De Humani Corporis Fabrica by Andreas Vesalius, published in 1543.

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