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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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10- Professional Development
I was very lucky to attend a talk by MIT physics professor Eric Mazur last week at Humboldt State…
Shadowing Trauma Surgeons
My last week in Sacramento, in addition to trying to pack and get everything back in my car, I…
Where Did the Summer Go?
I feel like I’m in one of those sports-car ads: Goes 0 to 60 in blah blah seconds. I…
9- Attendance
Concerns about student attendance is one of the arguments I’ve heard against flipping. Why would students bother coming to…
Out of the Country with A&P on the Mind – Part 2
As a continuation of my blog from Aug. 7, below are some additional observations from my recent trip to…
Shadowing Surgical Oncology
Of all of the medical specialties I knew I’d be seeing, I’ve had the most history with cancer. The…
8- DO Something!
Figuring out how to motivate students to come to class prepared is the first half of a successful flip. …
Out of the country with A&P on the mind – Part 1
As of July 1, I began my term as the new HAPS secretary. However, summer is slow for board…
Shadowing: Vascular Surgery
Just blood vessels? It struck me as too narrow a field to specialize in. Not as glorious as Cardiothoracic.…
7- Do Online Lectures Work?
It can take some serious momentum to motivate the filming of your own video lectures to flip a class. …
Arrivederci Italia!
Salve i miei colleghi! In my previous post about Anatomia Italiana 2013 our group had just visited the La…
Shadowing: Plastic Surgery
After multiple shifts with plastic surgeons in the OR they take over after mastectomies or other cancers are removed. …
