Competencies and objectives

 

Course context for academic year 2024-25

Anatomy involves the study of structures that can be seen macroscopically (without the aid of magnification techniques) and microscopically (with the aid of such techniques). Microscopic anatomy is also called Histology because it uses a microscope to study tissues and their cells, the basic components of the body's organs. Anatomy is the basis of the practice of medicine and, by extension, of many other disciplines, whether they belong to the health branch or health sciences, or to other branches of knowledge that need an anatomical basis for understanding the constitution of the human being. It is essential to have a deep anatomical understanding to identify and interpret situations of pathology and disease of the human body or any of its organic systems, such as the locomotive system, for example. Observation and visualization are the primary techniques that the student should use to learn Anatomy since they are the basis for a good physical exploration directly or with the help of more modern imaging techniques.

Professionals involved in physical activity and sport must be trained to ensure that they can practise without risk to the health and safety of sportsmen and women. This training at the highest level can be found in the professional skills provided by the Degree in Physical Activity and Sport Sciences from the University of Alicante, in its teaching centre in the Faculty of Education.

The subject of ANATOMY FOR PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND EXERCISE (APAE) contributes to this basic training in anatomical foundations, and in applied knowledge to exercise with the professional profiles of:

Sports training: Teaching, training, physical preparation of athletes and teams, as well as other professional services related to the practice of different sports specialities, at all levels.

Physical activity and health: Physical activity and sport in order to prevent, promote, maintain, recover or re-educate health.

The APAE, of 6 ECTS credits equivalent to 150 hours of classroom and non-classroom work by the student, is taught in the first semester of the first year of the degree. It is closely related to other subjects that make up the basic subject of Biology, which are taught in the second semester of the first course (Basic Physiology and Movement Kinesiology) and in the first semester of the second course (Physiology of Exercise). All of them require previous anatomical knowledge about the general organization of the human body, and the locomotive system in particular, in order to deepen in their respective fields. Reciprocally, the understanding of the APEA needs to advance basic concepts of these subjects that will be developed in due course.

Due to its basic character, the APAE is also related to other basic and compulsory subjects of the curriculum, whose temporal sequence must have an important coordination and coherence between them, especially to guarantee the acquisition of the professional competences of the Sports Training and Physical Activity and Health profiles.

 

 

Course competencies (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees) for academic year 2024-25

Transversal Competences

  • CGUA1 : Foreign language skills.
  • CGUA2 : Computer and information technology skills.
  • CGUA3 : Oral and written communication skills.

 

General Competences

  • CG1.1 : Capacity to identify, list, analyse, synthesise and apply the conceptual content determined by the subjects studied for the Sciences of Physical Activity and Sport degree.
  • CG1.2 : Ability to manage information and knowledge in new and complex situations, problem solving and decision making for the development of instrumental and procedural contents of the subjects of the degree in Physical Activity and Sport Sciences.
  • CG3.2 : Awareness and recognition of diversity and multiculturalism in the fields of teaching and learning, training and the promotion of health and recreation.

 

Specific Competences

  • AC2.1 : Knowing how to guide, design, apply and technico-scientifically assess physical exercise and physical condition at an advanced level, based on scientific evidence, in different areas, contexts and types of activities for the whole population and with emphasis on special populations such as: the elderly, schoolchildren, people with disabilities and people with pathologies, health problems or similar (diagnosed and/or prescribed by a doctor), taking into account gender and diversity.
  • AC2.2 : Identify, communicate and apply scientific anatomical-physiological and biomechanical criteria at an advanced level of skills in the design, development and technical-scientific evaluation of procedures, strategies, actions, activities and appropriate guidance; to prevent, minimise and/or avoid a health risk in the practice of physical activity and sport in all types of population.
  • AC2.3 : Design and apply with fluency, naturalness, consciously and continuously adequate, efficient, systematic, varied physical exercise and physical condition, based on scientific evidence, for the development of the processes of adaptation and improvement or readaptation of certain capacities of each person in relation to human movement and its optimisation; in order to be able to solve unstructured, increasingly complex and unpredictable problems and with emphasis on special populations.
  • AC2.4 : Articulate and display an advanced level of skill in the analysis, design and evaluation of tests for the assessment and control of physical fitness and physical-sporting performance.
  • AC2.5 : Know how to readapt, retrain and/or re-educate individuals, groups or teams with injuries and pathologies (diagnosed and/or prescribed by a doctor), whether they are competing or not, through physical-sports activities and physical exercises appropriate to their characteristics and needs.
  • AC2.6 : Develop an advanced level in the planning, application, control and evaluation of physical and sports training processes.
  • AC3.1 : Analyse, identify, diagnose, promote, guide and evaluate strategies, actions and activities that encourage the adherence to an active lifestyle and the participation and regular and healthy practice of physical activity and sport and physical exercise in an adequate, efficient and safe way by citizens in order to improve their overall health, well-being and quality of life, with emphasis on special populations such as: elderly people (senior citizens), schoolchildren, people with disabilities and people with pathologies, health problems or similar (diagnosed and/or prescribed by a doctor), taking into account gender and diversity.
  • AC3.4 : Promote education, dissemination, information and constant guidance to individuals and leaders on the benefits, significance, characteristics and positive effects of the regular practice of physical activity and sport and physical exercise, of the risks and harm of inappropriate practice and of the elements and criteria that identify its appropriate execution, as well as information, guidance and advice on the possibilities of appropriate physical activity and sport in their environment in any sector of professional intervention.
  • AC6.1 : Know and understand the bases of the methodology of scientific work.
  • AC6.2 : Analyse, review and select the effect and effectiveness of the practice of methods, techniques and resources of research and scientific work methodology, in the resolution of problems that require the use of creative and innovative ideas.
  • AC6.3 : Articulate and deploy with rigour and scientific attitude the justifications on which to elaborate, support, substantiate and justify in a constant and professional manner all acts, decisions, processes, procedures, actions, activities, tasks, conclusions, reports and professional performance.
  • AC6.4 : Articulate and deploy procedures, processes, protocols, own analysis, with rigour and scientific attitude on matters of social, legal, economic, scientific or ethical nature, when necessary and relevant in any professional sector of physical activity and sport (formal and informal physical and sports education; physical and sports training; physical exercise for health; management of physical activity and sport).

 

 

 

Learning outcomes (Training objectives)

  • Understand and recognise the normal structure and function of the human body.
  • Recognise the basis of normal human behaviour and its disturbances.
  • Understand and recognise the effects of growth, development and ageing on the individual and their social environment.
  • Know the morphology, structure and function of the locomotor apparatus.
  • Know and identify the anatomical reference position planes and terms of body movements.
  • Define the methods of anatomical study and their clinical interest for professional practice.
  • Know the general anatomical characteristics of osteology, arthrology and myology that make up the locomotor apparatus and its functional anatomy.
  • Know and identify the macroscopic characteristics of the components of the spine, head and neck and their functional anatomy and interest during the practice of physical activity and sport.
  • Know and identify the macroscopic characteristics of the components of the trunk (thorax, abdomen and pelvis) and their functional anatomy and practical clinical interest.
  • Know and identify the macroscopic characteristics of the components of the upper and lower extremities and their functional anatomy and practical clinical interest.

 

 

Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2024-25

  1. Acquire basic anatomical terminology in Spanish and basic scientific English.
  2. Understand the levels of organization of the human being within the biological context and the structures that form the human body.
  3. Acquire basic concepts about general and specific human embryology of the main organic systems.
  4. To know the organic systems that constitute the human body, the morphology of its organs and its general functions.
  5. Know the anatomical bases of the structures involved in the motor function of the locomotive system and other organic systems.
  6. To understand the participation of the joints, bones and muscles in the development of the movement.
  7. Acquire the neuroanatomical fundaments that contribute to the functional anatomy of the groups and muscular systems.
  8. To know the anatomical bases and the structures involved in the functioning of the central and peripheral nervous system, as well as some of the alterations that cause motor disorders.

 

 

General

Code: 16602
Lecturer responsible:
Cifuentes Martínez, ANA
Credits ECTS: 6,00
Theoretical credits: 1,20
Practical credits: 1,20
Distance-base hours: 3,60

Departments involved

  • Dept: OPTICS, PHARMACOLOGY AND ANATOMY
    Area: HUMAN ANATOMY AND EMBRIOLOGY
    Theoretical credits: 1,2
    Practical credits: 1,2
    This Dept. is responsible for the course.
    This Dept. is responsible for the final mark record.

Study programmes where this course is taught