Feder, Martin E. Aims of undergraduate physiology education: a view from the University of Chicago. Adv Physiol Educ 29: 3–10, 2005; doi:10.1152/advan.00028.2004.—Physiology may play an important, if not essential role, in a liberal arts education because it provides a context for integrating information and concepts from diverse biological and extra-biological disciplines. Instructors of physi...

background and purpose: course-based assessment is a method to gather, analyze, disseminate, and use course data to improve student learning. we assessed the associations between medical students’ scores in basic sciences and general courses in a university in iran and compared these scores with their scores in comprehensive exam. methods: we collected the scores of medical students in their co...

Students in genetics and reproductive physiology, junior-/senior-level courses with enrollments averaging 76 and 41 students, respectively, were encouraged to read popular science books for extra credit. The objectives of the readings were to reinforce basic class concepts by forming ties to everyday life, and to expose students to a genre that can provide information to prepare them as citizen...

Cindy Surmacz earned her doctorate in physiology from The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Penn State University. She is a professor in the Department of Biological and Allied Health Sciences at Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA and teaches anatomy and physiology, cell biology, and introductory biology. This paper is based on a laboratory exercise that is conducted in Concepts In Biology I...