Effects of automatic item eliminations based on item test analysis.

abstract：:Classroom discussion of scientific articles can be an effective means of teaching scientific principles and methodology to both undergraduate and graduate science students. The availability of classic papers from the American Physiological Society Legacy Project has made it possible to access articles dating back to t...

journal_title：Advances in physiology education

authors： Hanke CJ,Bauer-Dantoin AC

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, medical students' scientific thinking skills have been identified as an important issue in medical education. Scientific thinking cannot be imparted in conventional lectures, but rather requires actively involving students. We modified a practical course in physiology. A study was designed to test whether th...

journal_title：Advances in physiology education

authors： Eckel J,Zavaritskaya O,Schüttpelz-Brauns K,Schubert R

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Review quizzes can provide students with feedback and assist in the preparation for in-class tests, but students often do not voluntarily use self-testing resources. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate if taking a mandatory online review quiz alters performance on subsequent in-class tests. During two sem...

journal_title：Advances in physiology education

authors： Brown GA,Bice MR,Shaw BS,Shaw I

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physiology education was well represented at the 2nd Pan American Congress of Physiological Sciences in Havana, Cuba, with two symposia, a workshop, and a poster session. ...

journal_title：Advances in physiology education

authors： Carroll RG,Halpin PA,Silverthorn DU

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optimizing the usability of e-learning materials is necessary to maximize their potential educational impact, but this is often neglected when time and other resources are limited, leading to the release of materials that cannot deliver the desired learning outcomes. As clinician-teachers in a resource-constrained env...

journal_title：Advances in physiology education

authors： Davids MR,Chikte UM,Halperin ML

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skinfold assessment is valid and economical; however, it has a steep learning curve, and many programs only include one exposure to the technique. Increasing the number of exposures to skinfold assessment within an undergraduate curriculum would likely increase skill proficiency. The present study combined observation...

journal_title：Advances in physiology education

authors： Holmstrup ME,Verba SD,Lynn JS

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fractal physiology demonstrated growing interest over the last decades among physiologists, neuroscientists, and clinicians. Many physiological systems coordinate themselves for reducing variability and maintain a steady state. When recorded over time, the output signal exhibits small fluctuations around a stable valu...

journal_title：Advances in physiology education

authors： Arsac LM,Deschodt-Arsac V

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both estrogen and testosterone are present in males and females. Both hormones contribute to the well being of skeletal muscle and bone in men and women, and there is evidence that the loss of sex hormones is associated with the age-related decline in bone and skeletal muscle mass. Hormonal supplementation of older ad...

journal_title：Advances in physiology education

authors： Brown M

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Renal clearance is one of the more difficult concepts for students of physiology to learn. We hypothesized that this difficulty is rooted in a student's misunderstanding of virtual volume. This was tested by having students select from several drawings the one they thought plasma would look like after a certain volume...

journal_title：Advances in physiology education

authors： Richardson D,Speck D

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Historically, attendance has been a marker of academic performance, but the current medical education literature has had mixed results. In addition, attendance is dropping in the preclinical curricula, whereas, at the same time, the focus on United States Medical Licensing Examination Step 1 performance is increasing....

journal_title：Advances in physiology education

authors： Kauffman CA,Derazin M,Asmar A,Kibble JD

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:"The viscosity of the blood in narrow capillary tubes" by Robin Fåhraeus and Torsten Lindqvist (Am J Physiol 96: 562-568, 1931) can be a valuable opportunity for teaching basic hemorheological principles in undergraduate cardiovascular physiology. This classic paper demonstrates that a progressive decline in apparent ...

journal_title：Advances in physiology education

authors： Toksvang LN,Berg RM

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Students are relying on technology for learning more than ever, and educators need to adapt to facilitate student learning. High-fidelity patient simulators (HFPS) are usually reserved for the clinical years of medical education and are geared to improve clinical decision skills, teamwork, and patient safety. Finding ...

journal_title：Advances in physiology education

authors： Harris DM,Ryan K,Rabuck C

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To systematically investigate whether the inclusion of a bioethical discussion improves the learning and retention of biological content, students in two sections of an introductory zoology class were taught the biology behind emergency contraception and RU-486. Students in one section of the course participated in a ...

journal_title：Advances in physiology education

authors： Bodensteiner KJ

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most scientists acquire their training in manuscript review not through instruction but by actually doing it. Formal training in manuscript analysis is rarely, if ever, provided. Editors usually choose reviewers because of expertise in a given subject area and availability. If an individual repeatedly submits bad revi...

journal_title：Advances in physiology education

authors： Benos DJ,Kirk KL,Hall JE

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined whether requiring an individual readiness assurance test (iRAT) before a team readiness assurance test (tRAT) would benefit students in becoming better problem solvers in physiology. It was tested in the form of tRAT scores, the time required to complete the tRAT assignment, and individual performance on t...

journal_title：Advances in physiology education

authors： Gopalan C,Fox DJ,Gaebelein CJ

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of hepatic bile formation reported in 1958 established that it was an osmotically generated water flow. Intravenous infusion of sodium taurocholate established a high correlation between hepatic bile flow and bile acid excretion. Secretin, a hormone that stimulates bicarbonate secretion, was also found to incr...

journal_title：Advances in physiology education

authors： Javitt NB

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Didactic lectures are prevalent in physiology courses within veterinary medicine programs, but more active learning methods have also been utilized. Our goal was to identify the most appropriate learning method to augment the lecture component of our physiology course. We hypothesized that case-based learning would be...

journal_title：Advances in physiology education

authors： McFee RM,Cupp AS,Wood JR

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While there are several tools to study learning styles of students, the visual-aural-read/write-kinesthetic (VARK) questionnaire is a simple, freely available, easy to administer tool that encourages students to describe their behavior in a manner they can identify with and accept. The aim is to understand the preferr...

journal_title：Advances in physiology education

authors： Urval RP,Kamath A,Ullal S,Shenoy AK,Shenoy N,Udupa LA

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reports on the development and evaluation of a Web-based application that provides instruction and hands-on practice in managing electrolyte and acid-base disorders. Our teaching approach, which focuses on concepts rather than details, encourages quantitative analysis and a logical problem-solving approac...

journal_title：Advances in physiology education

authors： Davids MR,Chikte UM,Halperin ML

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traditional exam review sessions, typically conducted orally and in class by the instructor, are intended to identify the most frequently missed or problematic question with the intent of helping students perform better on subsequent exams. The shortcoming of this instructor-led activity is that it tends to focus on i...

journal_title：Advances in physiology education

authors： Favero TG,Hendricks N

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medical education reform is underway, but the optimal course for change has yet to be seen. While planning for the redesign of a renal physiology course at the Duke School of Medicine, the authors used a Q-sort survey to assess students' attitudes and learning preferences to inform curricular change. The authors invit...

journal_title：Advances in physiology education

authors： Roberts JK,Hargett CW,Nagler A,Jakoi E,Lehrich RW

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animal models have been widely used for studying the physiology and pharmacology of psychiatric and neurological diseases. The concepts of face, construct, and predictive validity are used as indicators to estimate the extent to which the animal model mimics the disease. Currently, we used these three concepts to desi...

journal_title：Advances in physiology education

authors： Morsink MC,Dukers DF

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The American Physiological Society (APS) and APS Council encourage the teaching of physiology at the undergraduate, graduate, and medical school levels to support the continued prominence of this area of science. One area identified by the APS Council that is of particular importance for the development of future phys...

journal_title：Advances in physiology education

authors： Henriksen EJ,Atwater AE,Delamere NA,Dantzler WH

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immune system is a vital physiological component that affords animals protection from disease and is composed of innate and adaptive mechanisms that rely on cellular and dissolved components. The serum complement system is a series of dissolved proteins that protect against a variety of pathogens. The activity of ...

journal_title：Advances in physiology education

authors： Inglis JE,Radziwon KA,Maniero GD

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between pH, pKa, and degree of local anesthetic ionization is quantified by the Henderson-Hasselbalch equation. As presented in standard textbooks, the effect of pH on the degree of ionization of any particular local anesthetic is not immediately clear due to the x-axis displaying pH - pKa, which requ...

journal_title：Advances in physiology education

authors： Pope RLE,Brown AM

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this laboratory exercise is to model the changes in preload, afterload, and contractility on a simulated pressure-volume loop and to correlate those findings with common measurements of clinical cardiovascular physiology. Once students have modeled these changes on a healthy heart, the students are aske...

journal_title：Advances in physiology education

authors： Leisman S,Burkhoff D

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1998, the American Physiological Society (APS) and the Association of Chairs of Departments of Physiology (ACDP) began collaboration on a project to develop a set of physiology learning objectives for medical students. Over the next 2 years, more than 50 physiologists collaborated in the development a comprehensive...

journal_title：Advances in physiology education

authors： Carroll RG

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fact that humans possess fast- and slow-twitch muscle in the ratio of ∼50% has profound implications for designing exercise training strategies for power and endurance activities. With the growth of exercise and sport science courses, we have seen the need to develop an undergraduate student laboratory that demons...

journal_title：Advances in physiology education

authors： Head SI,Arber MB

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The "conventional wisdom" is that grades are related to class attendance, i.e., students who attend classes more frequently obtain better grades and class attendance dramatically contributes to enhanced learning. However, the influence of sex (female vs. male) on this relationship is understudied. Furthermore, there h...

journal_title：Advances in physiology education

authors： Cortright RN,Lujan HL,Cox JH,DiCarlo SE

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although most educators have their greatest impact in the classroom, the increased need for diverse learning activities has created new opportunities for leadership. Moreover, many Tenure and Promotion Committees are finding that it is no longer sufficient to consider only lecture hours when evaluating a faculty membe...

journal_title：Advances in physiology education

authors： Pressley TA

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00