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Spring Issue
This Spring edition explores various innovative strategies in teaching physiology and related subjects, aimed at enhancing student engagement and learning outcomes. This includes: 1. AI-Enhanced Digital Case-Based Learning in A&P, 2. Medical Students and Near Peer Teaching, 3. Draw to Learn for Physical Therapy Students, 4. Enhancing Anatomy Learning through Drawing, 5. Alternative Grading in an Undergraduate Pharmacology Course, 6. Career Exploration Activity for A&P Students, 7. Risk Factors for Declining Testosterone Levels, 8. Learning Outcomes, Competencies, and Goals, 9. Student Perspectives on Distance Learning of Anatomy, and 10. Peer-Led Simulation in Pathophysiology.

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