Assignment: Aspects of the basic medical sciences

The written assignments in this course are designed to help students explore the various aspects of the basic medical sciences that provide the solid platform for clinical investigations, discoveries and interventions in medicine. The research and writings will go from molecular details/mechanisms to clinical features of disease conditions and from normal to abnormal states of the organ structures of the human body. These assignments will likewise touch on different aspects of cancer biology as a backdrop for reviewing concepts in biomedical science.

Instructions

Using the outline below, write a detailed research paper on the anatomy of the human organ assigned to you by your instructor at the beginning of the course. You should employ at least five peer-reviewed scientific sources/literature/textbooks including review articles in your research on the topic (organ) and be sure to use the AMA format. There is a five page limit on this paper but it should be detailed, comprehensive, well-organized and should have the appropriate language for

Organ:Stomach

Outline:

Introduction

Size, Dimensions, Shape

Surface Anatomy/ Landmarks

Boundaries/ Relations

Parts/ Divisions/ Layers/ Composition

Supporting Structures

Surgical Access To Organ

Blood Supply/ Drainage

Innervation

Lymphatic Drainage

Histology/ Microscopic Anatomy

Embryology; Developmental Anatomy

Developmental Variants

Normal Organ Physiology

You should include a title page.

Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the SafeAssign plagiarism tool.

Requirements: 5 pages

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.