• There will be 5 written exams during the course, plus a cumulative written final.

• The cumulative final exam is a “must pass” exam, meaning that if you do not earn a passing grade on this exam, you will have to take a remediation exam, even if your overall course average is passing.

• All material, whether presented in lecture or in lab, can be tested on the written exams.

• Material from your required reading, even material that was not specifically discussed in lecture or lab, can be tested on the exams.

• Questions are in either the multiple choice or matching format. They may include diagrams.

• See the course schedule for the dates & times of exams & the subjects covered by each.

• See the IFM website for the official exam rules.

  (http://webcampus.drexelmed.edu/handbook/academicpolicies.html#Year1ExamRules)

• Answers to written & practical exams are posted immediately after each exam on the (physical, not electronic) bulletin board in the hall outside the lab. Written exams will be scored by the Office of Educational Affairs, & your grade will be posted on the IFM evaluation website (http://webcampus.drexelmed.edu/evaluations/) in a secure form accessible only by you.

• Challenges to any exam question should be sent by e-mail to the course director (jsmith@drexelmed.edu) within three school days after the answers have been posted. Any resulting changes in the answer key will be posted on the bulletin board outside the lab.

• Students may keep the module exam booklets that contain the Microscopic Anatomy questions. Since you may find them useful in studying for the cumulative final or for the National Board exam, you should be sure to RECORD THE CORRECT ANSWERS on them and then KEEP THEM IN A SAFE PLACE. Additional copies will not be available.

• The Microscopic Anatomy faculty also presents lectures and a lab covering the histology of the eye and ear as part of the Neuroscience course. Exam questions related to these topics count toward your Neuroscience grade rather than your Microscopic Anatomy grade.

Practical Exams

• There will be 5 practical exams during the course. The cumulative final exam is a written exam only; it has no practical component.

• Most practicals include material from two or more modules. Consult the course schedule for the dates and times of the exams and the material covered by each. The course website has a 'map' of all siz lab cubicles to illustrate a typical layout for the stations in a practical exam.

• Prior to each practical, one or more slide review sessions are scheduled in the auditorium. Handouts for each slide review are included in your module guide. If you need additional help in preparing for a practical, feel free to make an appointment with any faculty member for an additional help session in the lab. If you need help with lecture material, please contact the faculty member who gave the relevant lectures.

• Most practical exams are given in the lab. Test materials can include glass microscope slides, videodisk images, diagrams, & prints of light and electron micrographs. The Chest Pain practical will consist of projected slides shown in the auditorium.

• Most questions are fill-in-the-blank or multiple choice type questions.

• There will be electron micrographs on all practicals. This is especially true of the first practical, which includes the cell biology portion of the course.

• Most practicals consist of 40-45 questions. The questions are in the fill-in-the-blank or multiple choice format. During lab practicals students walk from station to station and answer a question related to the image at that station. Questions often have two parts. You have approximately one minute per station.

• At the end of each lab practical you are given 10 minutes to revisit any stations you desire.

• Practicals can also include a small amount of related material from a previous exam. For example when one organ closely resembles another that was studied earlier in the course, we can use either organ on the practical and expect you to be able to distinguish between them.

• The images used in practical exams will include some you have seen in lecture or lab, and some you have never seen before. The object of your studies should be to learn how to recognize the various cells, tissues and organs, not to memorize individual slides and micrographs.

• The lab will close shortly after noon on the day before each lab practical to allow the faculty to set up the exam. It will remain closed until several hours after the exam. Please keep this in mind when scheduling your study time. In addition, PIL or second year classes may be scheduled for the lab on reading days. Please keep all these things in mind when scheduling your study time.

• Answers for the practical will be posted immediately after each exam on the bulletin board in the hall outside the lab.

• Practical exams are scored by hand. This process requires considerably more time than scoring the written exams. Therefore practical grades are often not available until several days after the results for the written have been posted. Scores for practical exams will be posted on the IFM website: http://webcampus.drexelmed.edu/ifm/grades/

Missing an Exam and Making up exams: THE HONOR CODE

• Students who cannot take an examination as scheduled must notify the Associate Dean for Student Affairs, Dr. Sam Parrish, (991-8222) prior to the test. If the Dean is satisfied that the absence is unavoidable, the student will be allowed to take a make-up examination. If the Dean does not excuse the absence, or the student fails to contact the Dean prior to the exam, a grade of zero may be given.

• It is our practice in Microscopic Anatomy to use the same exams for make-ups as for the original exam. We expect compliance with the Honor Code. Students who have been excused from an exam and have not yet taken the make-up should not read answers that are posted on the bulletin board, and should not discuss the exam with those who have already taken it.

• Make-ups for written exams must be scheduled with Dr. Parrish. Make-ups for practical exams must be scheduled with Dr. Smith. It is the student's responsibility to do this as soon as possible.