Art as Applied to Medicine

COURSE description

Offered: First semester, first year
Instructors: Gary Lees, Associate Professor
Credits: 3 Credits: 2 Lecture hours and 9 Studio hours per week

Sketching from the cadaver and application of illustration techniques, coordinated with gross anatomy dissection schedule. Emphasis on relationships and accuracy in surgical and radiological approaches. Augmented by autopsy, specimens, and text references.

COURSE objectives

Sketch accurately from personally dissected cadaver or prosection.

Create a realistic and educational sketch which includes accurate anatomical shape and placement, topographical relationships as in the living body, and organ and tissue textural differentiation.

Coordinate information from dissected cadaver, autopsy, specimens, textbooks, and atlases.

Utilize proper planes, directions, movements, and terminology.

Prepare sketches that meet assigned requirements.

Utilize sketches as anatomic reference material in future assignments.

resources

White, G. 1968. Perspective: A guide for Artists, Architects, and Designers. Watson-Guptill

Two complete natural bone skeletons in department

Student bone boxes from Anatomy and Cell Biology department

Access to cadaver dissection room at Basic Sciences building

Department of Pathology and orientation to autopsy observation

Maryland State Board of Anatomy

Extensive collection of anatomical texts and atlases (see library inventory list)

Grant's Atlas of Anatomy Dissection Manual

COURSE assignments

Regional sketches are assigned based on the progressive dissection of the Human body. In the thorax, abdomen, and pelvis, living placement of the internal organs is emphasized and sketched. One or two illustrations designed for teaching; (one in pen and ink and/or one in continuous tone media). One of the finished plates must include an inset of detail information.

COURSE evaluation

1:1 faculty-student interface

Interim class critiques

Written critique on perspective project

Review of sketches

Final grade

schedule

Three half days per week coordinated with the Human Gross Anatomy dissection schedule.

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Department of Art as Applied to Medicine
Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine
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