HAPS Offers Grants and Scholarships!
In 1994 the HAPS Executive Committee initiated a program of modest grants, scholarships, and awards for anatomy and/or physiology…
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Teaching Backwards: From Motion to Muscles
Have you taught those boring muscles lately? And those dreaded origins and insertions? And when students get to the…
Active Learning: A Practical Approach to Implementation
It’s likely that at this point I do not need to convince most of you that active learning can…
Getting Them out of Their Funk
Muscles and bones, bones and muscles. How many times have my students learned the deltoid tuberosity in the bone…
How does Physical Activity Exert Beneficial Effects on Atherosclerosis and Coronary Artery Disease?
This post describes an update seminar delivered by Harold Laughlin, Professor at the University of Missouri at the 2017…
Transferability: Giving Credit Where Credit is Due
In general, students take our A&P courses in preparation for a future career in healthcare or the sciences. It…
Action Potentials can be a Puzzle
I found myself digging through a closet of scrap-booking goods last night in a frantic effort to find a…
Join HAPS– for the conversations!
The HAPS Discussion group (also known as HAPS-L and before that as “the listserv”) is the place where the most interesting…
Gene Targeting into the 21st Century: Mouse Models of Human Disease from Cancer to Neuropsychiatric Disorders
This post describes an update seminar delivered by Dr. Mario R Capecchi at the 2017 HAPS Annual Conference in…
No More “Syllabus Day!”
Before last fall, when I would start to plan out my first day of A&P, I always greatly underestimated…