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LATEST HAPS EDUCATOR
Spring 2025
The latest edition explores various innovative strategies in teaching physiology and related subjects, aimed at enhancing student engagement and learning outcomes. This includes: 1. Mindful Breathing Exercises and Student Anxiety, 2. Cooperative Quizzes and Community College A&P, 3. Building Muscles in Clay, 4. Linking Reproductive Anatomy with Parturition Biomechanics, 5. 3D Virtual Cadavers to Support Pathophysiology Education, 6. HAPS Curriculum and Instruction Laboratory Survey Part 3, and 7. A Visual Demonstration of the Brachial Plexus.

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And so it begins…
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Shadowing: Getting Started
My internship at UC Davis Med Center began immediately following our HAPS conference in Vegas. So, while others were…
2- Selling the Flip
When I decided to flip my class, I knew I would need a very convincing explanation to justify the…
Ready for… HAPS 2014? Tell us what you want!
The HAPS 2013 annual conference in Las Vegas had record attendance, and preliminary member survey results indicate that most…
Getting In
I decided to be a role model, so had to go through the motions of applying. The easiest part…
1- It’s Flippin’ Fun!
My name is Wendy Riggs, and I am an adjunct instructor at College of the Redwoods (CR), a two…
HAPS and POGIL
Back on May 1st I wrote about professional development and today I would like to expand upon that post…
Interning
Last Fall I got roped into serving as an advisor to our “Caduceus Club” at Pasadena City College. …
HAPS Poker Walk: fun and merriment for a good cause
Among my duties as President-elect of HAPS was to organize and oversee the yearly 5K fun run/walk that is…
HAPS Conference Wrap-up
Hello HAPSters! It was such a pleasure to meet some of you at the HAPS Conference in Vegas! I’d…