A summer enrichment physiology course for matriculating medical students has met a number of short-term goals, including bringing the students to the level of average medical student performance by the end of the summer. The long-term benefit of the program was evaluated by constructing a prospective expectation for each member of the medical class. Physiology grades obtained by past medical st...

Two surveys were conducted between 1994 and 1996. The purpose of the initial survey was to obtain demographic information about prebaccaulareate human physiology courses. Of the 117 responding physiology departments, 50% offered human physiology at the prebaccalaureate level to 14,185 students during the 1994-1995 academic year. The mean was 245 students per year (+/- 30 SE). Class size was lim...

This article describes a one-semester anatomy and physiology course that is currently offered through the concurrent enrollment program at the University of Minnesota. The article explains how high school teachers are prepared to teach the course and describes efforts to promote program quality, student inquiry, and experiential learning. Recommendations are made for anatomy and physiology inst...

Goodman BE, Ikiugu MN. Designing and implementing a physiology course for a new doctoral occupational therapy program with student feedback. Adv Physiol Educ 41: 485–491, 2017; doi:10.1152/ advan.00078.2016.—Recently, the Occupational Therapy Department requested a custom-designed medical physiology course for the students in the new occupational therapy doctoral program. The first author, a ph...

Recently, the Occupational Therapy Department requested a custom-designed medical physiology course for the students in the new occupational therapy doctoral program. The first author, a physiologist with extensive experience in teaching both undergraduate preprofessional and medical students in human physiology, was recruited to design and implement the course. The course was designed to be co...

As the core course of seed science and engineering, "Plant physiology" assumes a vital role in advancing ideological political teaching practices under background new agricultural science. This paper primarily examines implications within plant physiology engineering discipline, analyzes current problems construction courses colleges universities, proposes optimization principles improvement me...

Effectiveness of a peer tutoring system developed for an advanced physiology course was assessed in terms of academic performance and perceived value. Forty-five students took the course without the peer tutoring system, and sixty-nine students took the course with peer tutoring. Grades from both groups of students were compared with grades earned in an introductory physiology course. Tutored s...

Undergraduate exercise physiology is a ubiquitous course in undergraduate kinesiology/exercise science programs with a broad scope and depth of topics. It is valuable to explore what is taught within this course. The purpose of the present study was to facilitate an understanding of what instructors teach in undergraduate exercise physiology, how it compares with various guidelines, and to cont...

In the past year, as my growing interest in physiology education encountered the realities of the “soft money” environment in which I lived, I was afforded the opportunity to broaden my perspective from that of faculty member focused on a single institution to that of consultant concerned with issues common to many institutions. As a result of this transition, I became more aware of a number of...