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Last fall, the HAPS Board approved a new task force on Diversity and Inclusion Goals (DIG). The purpose of DIG is to develop best practices, resources, and professional development for inclusive education in anatomy and physiology (A&P). The endgame is…
We skipped introductions to bring you a fun pre-semester challenge last week, but there are some new faces running the HAPS Communication Committee and blog. Up first, Communications Committee Chair, Melissa Clouse: Hello all! I would like to beg a few…
Many of us in HAPS have been fortunate to have learned human anatomy either by dissecting human specimens or by working with already dissected bodies. Many of us now teach students using human cadavers as the primary specimens for study…
During research for past HAPS workshops, I was struck by a shift in attitudes toward and uses for dissection in Europe. It was not always a practice banned by the church and practiced in secret as is often thought. There…
Who is Eduard Pernkopf and why should we care? Eduard Pernkopf was a Nazi. That is the short of it. He also created an anatomical atlas that has become a notorious source of ethical debate since at least the 1990s.…
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,…
Gail Jenkins was a dynamic teacher and long-time HAPS member. Gail loved teaching. Most of all, she loved to make difficult concepts in anatomy and physiology easily comprehensible to her students. To accomplish this, she employed the “Keep is simple,…
First, a few questions: How many of these abbreviations do you know? SoTL DBER IUSE CAPER Where do most students in the USA take entry-level anatomy and physiology? The answer the first question will be at the end, but it’s…
Have you taught those boring muscles lately? And those dreaded origins and insertions? And when students get to the exam they are frazzled and sad? Why do we do the same things over and over and wonder why students don’t…
This post describes an update seminar delivered by Harold Laughlin, Professor at the University of Missouri at the 2017 HAPS Annual Conference in Salt Lake City. Update Seminar VII was given by Harold Laughlin. In this talk, the benefits of…