The Chart of the Discipline

1. Main data:
1.1 University „VICTOR BABES” UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY
TIMISOARA
1.2 Faculty FACULTY OF MEDICINE
1.3 Departament I
1.4 Area 1) License
1.5 Studies)2) License
1.6 Specialization Medicine- English

2. Department data
2.1. Department name Anatomy and Embryology
2.2 Tutor Lecture Associate Professor Șișu Alina Maria, MD, PhD
2.3 Practice Totors Senior lecturer Faur Alexandra, MD,PhD
Assistant Professor Grigorita Laura, MD, PhD ;
Assistant Professor Bina Paul, MD ;
Assistant Professor Taga Roxana, MD ;
2.4 Year of study I 2.5 Semester II 2.6 Exam 2.7 Subject Contents3) FD
Assessment statute Compulsory3) FD
type

3. Time (subject structure no. hours/semester)

3.1 No. hours/week 8 3.2 for lecture 2 3.3 for 6
practice
3.4 Total no. of hours (hs) 112 (8 x 14 pt 1 sem) 3.5 for lecture 28 3.6 for 84
practice
Distribution of time hours
Study using books, references ans personal notes 70
Documentation in the library, electronic platform and on the field 10
Preparing seminaries/practicals/projects, themes, portfolios and essays 30
Tutoring -
Assessment 4
Other activities -
3.7 Total hs. of individual study 110
3.8 Total hs./semester 240 (8 credits x 30
hrs/credit)
3.9 No. of credits5) 8

5. Conditions (if applicable)

5.1 During lectures Mobile phones will be closed during classes, as phone calls conversations during the
course are not tolerated. Students will not leave the classroom during lectures.
-There will be no tolerance for the students' delay in the course as it proves
disruptive to the educational process;
-The date of the course's seminar is announced at the beginning of the semester.
Applications for postponement will not be accepted for reasons other than a legitimate
objective;
-The attendance at the course is mandatory, with a maximum of 30% of the total
absences being accepted.
5.2 During Mobile phones will be closed during classes, as phone calls conversations during the
practice/seminars/projects practice are not tolerated. Students will not leave the classroom during practice
-There will be no tolerance for the students' delay in the course as it proves
disruptive to the educational process;
-The attendance at the practice is mandatory, with a maximum of 15% of the total
absences being accepted (with recovering of the absences until the beginning of the
exam session).
-Recovering up to 15% of the total number of absences with the
payment during the academic year (except for medical cases that will require individual
approval of the Dean's).
-The date of the practice seminar is announced at the beginning of the semester.
Applications for postponement will not be accepted for reasons other than a legitimate
objective;
-The practical exam will be held in the last week of the semester or in the ordinary
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 session, from the subject of practical works / laboratories / traineeships previously
displayed. The practical exam in the session will not be held on the same day with the
grid exam.
-Students accumulating between 15-30% of absences will recover them on a pay-as-
you-go basis and lose the right to attend the ordinary session.
-Students accumulating more than 30% of absences cannot attend the exam during
the current academic year and are obliged to re-study the discipline.

6. Specific skills accumulated

skills Profesional

1. Knowledge of Nomina Anatomica

2. The acquisition by students of an appropriate medical language.
3. The acquisition by the student of theoretical and practical notions of individual anatomical components and
composite structures of the head and neck.
4. Learning correct exploratory maneuvers and dissection techniques of normal anatomical structures.
5. Recognition of descriptive and topographic anatomy of the the head and neck region
6. Linking knowledge of descriptive anatomy with morphological exploration of the concepts of radio-anatomy.
7. Linking elements of topographical anatomy with some notions of medical semiology
Transversal skills

1. Interest for professional development by engaging critical thinking skills demonstrated through active
participation in the course and laboratory / seminar / project;
2. Involvement in scientific research activities by participating in the elaboration of papers, studies, specialty articles;
3. Effective use of information sources and communication resources and assisted training (Internet portals,
specialized software applications, databases, on-line courses, etc.) both in Romanian and in an international
language;
4. Recognition of a normal anatomical element and evaluation of its participation in the achievement of pathological
conditions, anatomic support of any non-invasive exploratory act (CT, MRI) or invasive (surgical instrument).

7. Aims (building on the specific competences accumulated)

7.1 General aims 1. Knowing the elements of descriptive and topographic anatomy of the head and
neck region.
2. Understanding the basic embryogenesis and organogenesis as the basis for
morphogenesis in the normal anatomical development of the human body.
3. Knowledge of regions, cavities and head and neck fosae in the topographic
anatomy
4. Knowledge of functional anatomy/morphology of the central nervous system
and of the sensory analyzers.
5. Morphological exploration of preserved body pieces (cadavers) of the
anatomical sections.
6. Acquiring international anatomical terminology (Nomina Anatomica).
7.2 Specific aims 1. Knowing and understanding the anatomic terminology.
2. Identification of the anatomical structures.
3. Knowing the relations between different anatomical structures.
4. Study of tyhe topographycal regions and of the sectional anatomic structures.

8. Subject contents
8.1 Lecture Teaching methodology No. Of Issues
hours/wee
k
1. Embryologic development of the respiratory The intractive presentation of the 2
apparatus. Pleuropulmonary regions. Pleural recesses material of study according to
prjection. syllabus by using power point
2. Mediastinum - limits, divisions and contents. presentation. 2
3. Embryologic development of the heart. 2
Pericardium. External feature of the heart.Internal
feature of the heart. Auscultation sites of the heart.
4. Vessels and nerves of the thorax. 2
5. Embryologic development of the abdominal 2
viscera. Topography of the abdominal cavity.
Peritoneum- overview, peritoneal reflections and
bursa omentalis.
6.Gastric fossa. Stomach – external feature, internal 2
feature, structure, relations, blood supply and nerve
supply.

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7. Hepatic fossa. Liver - segments, external feature,
structure, relations, blood supply and nerve supply.
Intra- and extra hepatic ways. Portal vein.
8. Splenic fossa. Spleen – external feature, structure, 2
relations, blood supply and nerve supply. Pancreas –
external feature, structure, relations, blood supply and
nerve supply.
9. Small intestine and large intestine- divisions, 2
external feature, internal feature, structure, relations,
blood supply and nerve supply. Vessels and nerves of
the abdomen. Coeliac plexus – constitution and
branches.
10. Kidney – external feature, internal feature, 2
structure, relations, blood supply and nerve supply.
Means of fixation. Urinary bladder – external feature,
internal feature, structure, relations, blood supply and
nerve supply. Means of fixation. Vessels and nerves of
the pelvic cavity.
11. Uterus, fallopian tubes and ovaries – external 2
feature, internal feature, structure, relations, blood
supply and nerve supply. Means of fixation . Prostate,
seminal vesicles and defferent duct – external feature,
structure, relations, blood supply and nerve supply.
12. Perineal region- limits and divisions. Male 2
perineum. Female perineum.
13. Embryologic development of the eyeball and its 2
annexes. Anatomy of the eyeball and its annexes.
14. Embryologic development of the ear. Anatomy of 2
the external ear. Anatomy of the middle ear. Anatomy
of the internal ear. Taste organ. Olfactory organ.
Mandatory references:
1. Șișu AM.,Bolintineanu S,.The Perineum. Ed. Eurostampa, 2018.
2. Gray H, Gray’s Anatomy – Anatomy descriptive and surgery, Produced by Magpie Books, London, 1995.
Optional references:
3. Johannes Sobotta - Sobotta Atlas of Human Anatomy - Published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1996.
4. Frank Netter - Atlas of Human Anatomy - Published by Icon Learning Systems, 2003.
8.2 Practice Teaching methodology No. Issues
hrs/week
1. Study of the thorax-cutting the sterno-costal wall. Checking the students’ theoretical 6
Study of the thoracic viscera in situ. Study of pleura knowledge the ongoing practical
and pleuropulmonary recesses. Pleural recesses activity; the students should prove that
projection, pulmonary fissures projection. Study of they possess appropriate knowledge
the pulmonary hilum. Study of the lungs – lobes and of the method of dissection; individual
segments. evaluation. Checking the student's
2. Study of mediastinum. Study of the pericardic practical knowledge by identifying the 6
reflexion. Removing the pericardium and highlighting gross anatomical features on cadaver
the heart and greater vessels of the heart. Dissection pieces, gross anatomical specimens,
of the greater vessels, removal of the heart. sections, corrosion casts and
3. Heart– external feature. Study of the heart vessels. anatomical drawings. 6
Dissection of the heart – internal feature. Dissection
of mediastinum. Study of trachea, bronchi and
thoracic part of oesophagus.
4. Study of the thoracic aorta, thoracic vessels and 6
intercostal nerves. Study of venae cavae, azygos vein,
hemiazygos veins, thoracic duct, autonomic nervous
system ( sympathetic trunk), vagi nerves.
5. Opening the abdominal cavity. Study the abdominal 6
viscera in situ. Study of the peritoneum and peritoneal
reflections. Study of diafragma: structure hiatuses;
blood supply; nerve supply. Projection of the hiatuses
and diaphragmatic arches.

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 6. Peritoneal structures - mezos, ligaments, omenta. 6
Peritoneal cavity: supra- and inframesocolic spaces
and its divisions. Study of abdominal oesophagus:
relations, external and internal features, blood supply
and nerve supply. Study of visceral fossae of the
supramesocolic level. Study of supramesocolic
viscera projections onto the trunk walls.
7. Study of bursa omentalis and its prolongations; 6
foramen bursae omentale and Winslow hiatus.Ways of
access in bursa omentalis. Dissection of the coeliac
trunk and its branches; coeliac plexus. Removal and
study of the liver: external feature, structure, relations,
blood supply, nerve supply. Liver ligaments. Liver
segments.
8. Clinical anatomy: liver projection onto the 6
abdomino-thoracic wall. Study of portal vein.
Stomach: removal and study: external feature, internal
feature, structure, relations, blood supply, nerve
supply. Ligaments of the stomach. Clinical anatomy:
cardia and pylorus projections. Projection of the
anterior surface, greater curvature and lesser curvature
of the stomach. Imagistic study.
9. Removal and study of the spleen: external feature, 6
structure, relations, blood supply, nerve supply.
Ligaments of the spleen. Clinical anatomy: spleen
projection. Removal and study of pancreas: external
feature, structure, relations, blood supply, nerve
supply. Clinical anatomy: pancreas
projection.Imagistic studyc.
10. Study of the inframesocoloc level of the abdomen- 6
viscera projection onto the abdominal wall. Section
and study of the small intestine: divisions, external
and internal features, structure, relations, blood
supply, nerve supply. Removal, dissection and study
of the large intestine: divisions, external and internal
features, structure, relations, blood supply, nerve
supply.
11. Dissection of renal fossa. Study of kidney: 6
external feature, structure, relations, blood
supply,nerve supply. Removal of kidney and sectional
study. Study of ureter. Clinical anatomy: projection of
ureter; pain ureteral areas. Dissection of vesical
fossa. Removal, dissection and study of the urinary
bladder. Study of the female urethra. Study of the
male urethra. Dissection of the genital fossa.
12. Dissection of the perineal region ( anal region and 6
urogenital region). Study of the perineal region:
limits. Study of the male perineum, female perineum
and their areas: anterior (uro-genital, uro-genital
trigone and external genitalia) and posterior
( posterior perineum) : anal orifice and ischiorectal
fossae.
13. Study of the eyeball and its annexes. 6
Ophthalmoscopy.
14.. Study of the ear. Otoscopy. 6
Mandatory references:
1. Richard L.Drake, A. Wayne Vogl, Adam W.M.Mitchell, Gray s for students , Churchill Livingstone Elsevier, 2010.
2. Frank Netter - Atlas of Human Anatomy - Published by Icon Learning Systems, 2003.
Optional references:
3. Johannes Sobotta - Sobotta Atlas of Human Anatomy - Published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1996.

10. Assessment
Activity type 10.1 Assessment criteria 10.2 Assessment methods 10.3 % of the
final mark

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10.4 Lecture The theoretical exam can be held if Final evaluation: Multiple choice 60%
the student has attended minimum questions (MCQ)
70% of the lectures.
Exam-Multiple choice questions and and 3 written subjects.
3 written subjects : Grade/note 5 is required for both the
- 50 issues with one answer (max. MCQ test and written subjects.
30% of the MCQs) and more than
one answer, 2, 3 or 4 answers.
- time - 90 minutes
- score for grade 5: minimum 50% of
the maximum score

Tests during semester-MCQ 10%

10.5 Practice Students with up to 15% absences Final assessment: practical skills 30%
will recover (totally) during the exam
semester.
-Students accumulating between 15-
30% absences will recover them on a
pay-as-you-go basis and lose the right
to attend the regular/ordinary session.
- Students accumulating more than
30% of absences can not attend the
exam during the current academic
year and are obliged to re-study the
discipline
- Practical individual exam and is
conducted during the last week of the
semester.
Practical exam is mandatory:
- grade 5: the student must answer
100% to the 5 questions in the
minimum scale
-grade 10: the student has to answer
100% of the total number of
questions
10.6 Minimum performance standard
1. Knowledge of anatomic terminology
2. Recognition of the anatomical and neck elements and the topographical relationships between them.
3. Knowledge of topographic regions, layers and anatomical components.

Date Signature of the tutor lecture Signature of the tutors Practice

19.10.2018
Associate Professor Șișu Alina Maria, Senior lecturer Faur Alexandra,
MD,PhD MD,PhD

Assistant Professor Grigorita Laura,

MD, PhD;

Assistant Professor Bina Paul, MD;

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 Assistant Professor Taga Roxana,
MD;

Signature of the Head of Discipline

Full Professor Matusz Petru,
MD,PhD

Date of approval in the Department of Signature of the Head of Department

Anatomy and Embryology Full Professor Bolintineanu Sorin, MD,PhD