Graduate students are required to take a functional anatomy course during the Fall Semester that utilizes cadavers to access hands-on study and dissection experiences. During the Spring Semester, the students will continue to dissect the cadavers in the muscle testing course. Presently, the Department of Exercise Physiology procures four cadavers per academic year thus allowing for a dissection experience of four students per cadaver. As the program grows, the department will increase the number of cadavers accordingly.

With the above pictures, the students are identifying specific muscles by origin, insertion, and function. You may note that the right aspect of the cadaver's hip region is presented in the photograph. The students are concerned particularly with the origin of the hip flexors and abductors (such as the tensor fascia latae, sartorius, and rectus femoris). The hands-on opportunity to assess 'what is what' is beyond description when predisposed otherwise to a study of anatomy only by a textbook.

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