THE FUNDAMENTAL FUNCTION of the respiratory system is to bring O2 into the body from the environment and rid the body of the CO2 produced by tissue metabolism. This exchange of gases occurs across alveoli of the lungs and is paramount for maintaining homeostasis. While this basic function is critical for homeostasis, the underlying physiology is complex and requires a basic understanding and ap...

A complete course of respiratory physiology suitable for first-year medical and graduate students has been placed on the Web for our own students and for other educational institutions. There are several reasons for doing this. The first is that the modern-day student uses a variety of options for acquiring knowledge. These include attending lectures, reading texts, iPod downloads, and surfing ...

A block course of 12 days is described. It is considered to be appropriate for both physiologically naive and sophisticated students entering either a traditional or a problem-based curriculum. It is adaptable for medical schools in both developed and developing countries. Six problem-based small-group sessions, based on everyday human situations, are the core of the course. They are supplement...

Introduction: Teaching renal physiology for undergraduatemedical students in an understandable way using methods whichimprove their deep learning has always been a problem. In thisstudy, Early Clinical Exposure (ECE) was used in teaching renalphysiology for the second year medical students in Shiraz MedicalSchool. This article aims to introduce and develop this programand also measure the attit...

Masahiro Konishi, Kazuyuki Kanosue, Masumi Kano, Akiko Kobayashi, and Kei Nagashima Department of Physiology, Course of Health Science, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan; Department of Physiology, Faculty of Sports Sciences and Department of Integrative Physiology, Health and Welfare, Faculty of Human Sciences, Waseda University, Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan; Conso...

Integrating medical ethics into the physiology teaching-learning program has been largely unexplored in India. The objective of this exercise was to introduce an interactive and integrated ethics program into the Physiology course of first-year medical students and to evaluate their perceptions. Sixty medical students (30 men, 30 women) underwent 11 sessions over a 7-mo period. Two of the Physi...

In the last decade, increasing interest has been paid to interdisciplinary and practical courses in the medical education in Germany. This report describes the implementation and outcome of a preclinical interdisciplinary elective course with a team-teaching concept developed by lecturers in medical psychology, anatomy, physiology and biochemistry. The practical orientation of the course led to...