Overview
In this unit, you will learn to apply anatomical terminology and the concept of levels of organisation when describing the human body and its systems. You will describe the anatomical features, function and physiological regulation of the musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, lymphatic, digestive, respiratory, nervous, endocrine, urinary, and reproductive human body systems. In addition, you will study the anatomical and physiological relations involved in human movement including the effects of use, disuse and ageing on the pelvic region, perineum and lower limbs.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
This unit is for students from these courses only: CB66 - Bachelor of Health Science (Allied Health), CB84 - Bachelor of Occupational Therapy (Honours), CB85 - Bachelor of Physiotherapy (Honours), CB86 - Bachelor of Podiatry (Honours), CB87 - Bachelor of Speech Pathology (Honours).
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 3 - 2019
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Residential Schools
This unit has a Compulsory Residential School for distance mode students and the details are:
Click here to see your Residential School Timetable.
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University’s Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback – Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Student feedback and self-reflection
In online quizzes, the short text-entry response computer-marked questions often require manual re-scoring. This delays feedback to students and is labour-intensive to administer.
Revise online quizzes to replace these text-entry questions with question types that do not require manual scoring or re-scoring.
Feedback from Student and staff feedback
Student appreciation for end of term practical assessment preparation
Continue to deliver an end of term preparation for the practical assessment on all campuses.
- Describe the anatomical features, function and physiological regulation of the cells, tissues, and organs of the musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, lymphatic, digestive, respiratory, nervous, endocrine, urinary, and reproductive human body systems
- Identify and describe anatomical structures of the normal human body focusing on musculoskeletal and neurovascular structures of the pelvis, perineum, and lower limbs
- Explain the anatomical and physiological relations involved in human movement
- Describe the human body’s response to use, disuse and aging across the lifespan
- Apply anatomical terminology and the concept of levels of organisation when describing the human body and its systems.
This unit was created to meet the accreditation requirements of the allied health courses in relation to musculoskeletal and neurovascular anatomy and physiology.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Online Quiz(zes) - 50% | |||||
| 2 - Practical Assessment - 50% | |||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Communication | |||||
| 2 - Problem Solving | |||||
| 3 - Critical Thinking | |||||
| 4 - Information Literacy | |||||
| 5 - Team Work | |||||
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | |||||
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | |||||
| 8 - Ethical practice | |||||
| 9 - Social Innovation | |||||
| 10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | |||||
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
| 1 - Online Quiz(zes) - 50% | ||||||||||
| 2 - Practical Assessment - 50% | ||||||||||
Textbooks
GRAY’S ANATOMY FOR STUDENTS
Edition: 3 (2014)
Authors: Richard Drake, A. Wayne Vogl, Adam W. M. Mitchel
Elsevier Health Sciences
Great Britain
ISBN: 9780702051319
Binding: Paperback
MCMINN AND ABRAHAMS' CLINICAL ATLAS OF HUMAN ANATOMY
Edition: 7 (2013)
Authors: Peter H. Abrahams, Jonathan D. Spratt, Marios Loukas, Albert-Neels van Schoor
Elsevier Health Sciences
Great Britain
ISBN: 9780723436973
Binding: Paperback
Additional Textbook Information
New editions of the textbooks are now available but we will use these older editions for Term 3. Starting in Term 1 of 2020, the newest edition will be used.
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
- Anatomedia
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: American Psychological Association 6th Edition (APA 6th edition)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
s.skippen@cqu.edu.au
c.ramlogan-steel@cqu.edu.au
Module/Topic
Introduction, Cells & Tissues
Musculoskeletal System 1: Bone
Chapter
Gray: Ch 1 - The Body (pp 1-4)
Martini: Ch 4 - The Tissue Level of Organisation (pp 109-134)
Martini: Ch 6 - Osseous Tissue & Bone Structure (pp 170-193)
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Musculoskeletal System 2: Muscle
Musculoskeletal System 3: Joints
Chapter
Martini: Ch 4 - The Tissue Level of Organisation (pp 134-136)
Martini: Ch 10 - Muscle Tissue (pp 280-285, 302-305, 313-315)
Martini: Ch 11 - The Muscular System (pp 323-327)
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Cardiovascular System & Lymphatic System
Chapter
Gray: Ch 3 - Thorax (pp 180-210: middle mediastinum)
Martini: Ch 22 - Lymphatics (pp 765-766)
Events and Submissions/Topic
Quiz 1 opens on Friday Week 3, 9:00 AM (AEST) and closes on Friday Week 4, 17:00 PM (AEST).
Module/Topic
Respiratory System & Gastrointestinal System
Chapter
Gray: Ch 3 - Thorax (pp 163-180: pleural cavities)
Gray: Ch 4 - Abdomen (pp 310-342: organs-abdominal viscera)
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Nervous System and Endocrine System
Chapter
Gray: Ch 1 - The Body (pp 31-48: nervous system)
Gray: Ch 2 - Back (pp 99-110: spinal cord)
Gray: Ch 8 - Head & Neck (pp 876-893: meninges, brain and its blood supply)
Martini: Ch 4 - The Tissue Level of Organisation (pp 137-139)
Martini: Ch 12 - Neural Tissue (pp 375-380, 386-404)
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Urinary System & Reproductive System
Chapter
Gray: Ch 4 - Abdomen (pp 373-387: posterior abdominal region viscera)
Gray: Ch 5 - Pelvis and Perineum (pp 460-481: pelvic viscera)
Events and Submissions/Topic
Quiz 2 opens Friday Week 6, 9:00 AM (AEST) and closes on Friday Week 7, 17:00 PM (AEST).
Module/Topic
Regional Anatomy: Pelvis & Perineum
Chapter
Gray: Ch 5 - Pelvis & Perineum (pp 423-460, 481-526: remainder of chapter 5)
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Regional Anatomy: Hip & Gluteal Region
Chapter
Gray: Ch 6 - Lower Limb (pp 535-583)
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Regional Anatomy: Thigh
Chapter
Gray: Ch 6 - Lower Limb (pp 606-633: regional anatomy of the knee and leg)
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Regional Anatomy: Knee & Leg
Chapter
Gray: Ch 6 - Lower Limb (pp 606-633: regional anatomy of the knee and leg)
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Regional Anatomy: Ankle & Foot
Residential School (Wed - Fri: 5/2 - 7/2)
Practical Assessment (Saturday: 8/2)
Chapter
Gray: Ch 6 - Lower Limb (pp 633-662: regional anatomy of the foot)
Events and Submissions/Topic
Quiz 3 opens on Friday Week 11, 9:00 AM (AEST) and closes on Friday Week 12, 17:00 PM (AEST).
Compulsory Residential School and Practical Assessment in ROK: Wednesday - Saturday, Week 11
Supplementary Practical Assessments (if given at certification of grades) will be held in ROK only.
1 Online Quiz(zes)
An understanding of human anatomy and physiology is essential to many health professions. The fundamentals of this knowledge must be learnt and understood. The various health professions you have chosen to study have selected the knowledge and concepts taught in this unit as relevant to your future scope of practice.
- There will be three separate online quizzes to assess your knowledge of the unit material.
- The number of questions and weighting for each quiz is outlined below.
- You are allowed three attempts on each quiz. It is not compulsory to attempt the quiz three times. The attempt where you achieved the highest grade will serve as your final score for that quiz.
- There is a minimum mark requirement in the assessment task: 50% of the cumulative score of all three quizzes (1-3).
- In the absence of an approved extension, there will be no opportunity to complete the task after the assigned date.
- Dates that each quiz open and close are outlined below. Each quiz must be completed on or before the due date listed.
| QUIZ | TOPIC | QUESTIONS | WEIGHTING | TIME/DATE QUIZ OPENS | TIME/DATE QUIZ CLOSES |
| 1 | Week 1,2,3 | 20 | 10% | 9:00 AM (AEST) Friday Week 3 | 17:00 PM (AEST) Friday Week 4 |
| 2 | Week 4,5,6 | 30 | 15% | 9:00 AM (AEST) Friday Week 6 | 17:00 PM (AEST) Friday Week 7 |
| 3 | Week 7,8,9,10,11 | 50 | 25% | 9:00 AM (AEST) Friday Week 11 | 17:00 PM (AEST) Friday Week 12 |
3
Other
See "Task Description" above
Immediately upon quiz closure
Questions will be automatically marked correct or incorrect at the completion of the quiz. The maximum score that can be accumulated from the three Online Quizzes equals 50% of the total unit marks. The 50% minimum mark requirement is on the cumulative score of all three quizzes.
- Describe the anatomical features, function and physiological regulation of the cells, tissues, and organs of the musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, lymphatic, digestive, respiratory, nervous, endocrine, urinary, and reproductive human body systems
- Identify and describe anatomical structures of the normal human body focusing on musculoskeletal and neurovascular structures of the pelvis, perineum, and lower limbs
- Explain the anatomical and physiological relations involved in human movement
- Describe the human body’s response to use, disuse and aging across the lifespan
- Apply anatomical terminology and the concept of levels of organisation when describing the human body and its systems.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
2 Practical Assessment
In this practical assessment you will:
- Identify anatomical structures of the skeletal, muscular and neurovascular systems of the spine, pelvis, perineum and lower limb.
- Describe the different functions of human anatomy.
- Explain the individual variations of human anatomy.
- Explain how anatomy and function are interrelated.
The practical assessment is worth 50% of your overall mark for the unit. It consists of approximately 20 stations set up around the laboratory, each with specimens including models, bones and plastinates where structures will be clearly labelled. At each station, there will be a station identifier that lists the questions. Questions in the practical assessment will consist of brief identification or function of labelled structures and associated structures, innervation and blood supply. Questions will cover bones, muscles, joints, nerves, blood vessels, viscera and supporting structures in the body systems, pelvis, perineum and lower limb. Students are responsible for all content covered in class for the entire term, that is visible on the specimens that we have, with particular emphasis placed on the practical activities.
The practical assessment is approximately 1 hour in duration. There will be 1 student at each station at a time. After a set period of time, you will rotate to the next station and repeat this process until you have been to all stations. You will be given an answer sheet on which to write your answers. The practical assessment is closed book so the only things you will be allowed to have on you are pens (blue or black ink only), your answer sheet and photo ID (e.g., student ID or driver's license).
All students take the practical assessment in person in Week 11 in ROK, following the compulsory residential school. The exact date and time will be posted in Moodle.
Within 2 weeks of assessment date
For the practical assessment, your responses are scored according to the following criteria:
- correctness, relevance and completeness of the response to the question asked
- correct spelling and use of anatomical and physiological terminology
- Describe the anatomical features, function and physiological regulation of the cells, tissues, and organs of the musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, lymphatic, digestive, respiratory, nervous, endocrine, urinary, and reproductive human body systems
- Identify and describe anatomical structures of the normal human body focusing on musculoskeletal and neurovascular structures of the pelvis, perineum, and lower limbs
- Explain the anatomical and physiological relations involved in human movement
- Describe the human body’s response to use, disuse and aging across the lifespan
- Apply anatomical terminology and the concept of levels of organisation when describing the human body and its systems.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Information Literacy
- Ethical practice
As a CQUniversity student you are expected to act honestly in all aspects of your academic work.
Any assessable work undertaken or submitted for review or assessment must be your own work. Assessable work is any type of work you do to meet the assessment requirements in the unit, including draft work submitted for review and feedback and final work to be assessed.
When you use the ideas, words or data of others in your assessment, you must thoroughly and clearly acknowledge the source of this information by using the correct referencing style for your unit. Using others’ work without proper acknowledgement may be considered a form of intellectual dishonesty.
Participating honestly, respectfully, responsibly, and fairly in your university study ensures the CQUniversity qualification you earn will be valued as a true indication of your individual academic achievement and will continue to receive the respect and recognition it deserves.
As a student, you are responsible for reading and following CQUniversity’s policies, including the Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure. This policy sets out CQUniversity’s expectations of you to act with integrity, examples of academic integrity breaches to avoid, the processes used to address alleged breaches of academic integrity, and potential penalties.
What is a breach of academic integrity?
A breach of academic integrity includes but is not limited to plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, cheating, contract cheating, and academic misconduct. The Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure defines what these terms mean and gives examples.
Why is academic integrity important?
A breach of academic integrity may result in one or more penalties, including suspension or even expulsion from the University. It can also have negative implications for student visas and future enrolment at CQUniversity or elsewhere. Students who engage in contract cheating also risk being blackmailed by contract cheating services.
Where can I get assistance?
For academic advice and guidance, the Academic Learning Centre (ALC) can support you in becoming confident in completing assessments with integrity and of high standard.
What can you do to act with integrity?
