Course Website

You can access the course website by going to http://webcampus.drexelmed.edu/ifm/courses.asp
and clicking on “Course Web Site” under Microscopic Anatomy. Parts of this website are password protected.

Alternatively, you can gain access directly to the course website by going to
http://neurobio.drexelmed.edu/education/ifm/microanatomy/

The course website contains items such as the course schedule and all other information found in this syllabus, the complete lab manual, fully annotated practice questions for the written exams, a Microscopic Anatomy vocabulary list with definitions, images of some of our rarer glass slides which may be missing from your slide boxes, a link for electron micrograph images, and photos of the faculty. Photos of the student lab groups will also be posted after the course begins.

Other Study Resources

The following resources are available in the lab:

1. A videodisk called Histology: A Photographic Atlas, which has thousands of light microscope images and is accompanied by a descriptive manual. Each lab cubicle has several videodisk players and monitors equipped with this videodisk.

2. A computer index for the videodisk. Each cubicle has a computer connected to one of the videodisk set-ups. The index program is loaded on this computer. Lab instructors will demonstrate the use of this program during the first two or three lab sessions of the course.

3. A computer program called Histo Quizbank that contains practice multiple-choice questions. This program is loaded on at least one computer per cubicle in the lab.

The following material is also available to help in your studies:

1. Several sets of kodachromes slides (mainly light micrographs) are on reserve at the Queen Lane Library (e.g., a slide set called A Visual Approach to Histology by Wismar & Ackerman.)

2. A videodisk set-up in the library. This is especially helpful in studying for exams once the lab has closed for exam set-up.