Posts related to the benefits of HAPS membership
This year the HAPS board has focused on clarifying our financial instruments and has completed a top-to-bottom review of our policies, procedures, and bylaws. This sort of work is detail oriented and can drag on, but is necessary for organizational…
Being the Executive Director of HAPS is a great job, in part because I never really know what opportunities are going to present themselves on any given day. Two weeks ago I got a call from friend and HAPS McGraw-Hill…
Administrators and faculty have questioned the effectiveness of online, hybrid and dual credit sections of a course as opposed to a traditional face to face section. The opinion voiced most often is that the online and dual credit sections cannot…
In 2014, when I was teaching at a school of nursing, I was asked to develop a Human Anatomy and Physiology course sequence for undergraduates at our university who were interested in pursuing a degree in nursing. Human Anatomy and…
From the founding of the Human Anatomy and Physiology Society (HAPS) as an organization in 1989, there has been a general agreement that many of our students find the study of Human Anatomy and Physiology to be difficult. For some…
Two years of planning, many discussions, and revisions of the program’s agenda and it finally happened! On May 29, 2017, a wonderful group of CCBC (Community College of Baltimore County) biology students and faculty left for an exciting 10-day adventure,…
This post describes Quelly Shaive’s anatomy program in Manaus, Brazil. Anatomy for Medicine is a class which emphasizes the application of anatomy knowledge within a clinical anatomy model. The approach of Anatomy for Medicine is topographic, where we explore each…
Reading the HAPS listserv and HAPS Educator, serving on the board or a committee, reviewing position statements, implementing HAPS learning outcomes and returning from an annual or regional conference with new ideas are all ways that I have benefitted from…
In 1994 the HAPS Executive Committee initiated a program of modest grants, scholarships, and awards for anatomy and/or physiology faculty and their students. These awards support the mission statement of the Society, which is to promote excellence in the teaching…
The HAPS Discussion group (also known as HAPS-L and before that as “the listserv”) is the place where the most interesting conversations in A&P are happening. This discussion group has hundreds of members, is very active, and has often features amazingly high…