Development and evaluation of a multimedia e-learning resource for electrolyte and acid-base disorders.

abstract：:Modern teaching trends in medical education exhibit a paradigm shift from the conventional classroom teaching methods adopted in the past to nonconventional teaching aids so as to encourage interactive forms of learning in medical students through active participation and integrative reasoning where the relationship o...

journal_title：Advances in physiology education

authors： Nageswari KS,Malhotra AS,Kapoor N,Kaur G

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The B. P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, is following an innovative hybrid curriculum. Conventional lectures are replaced by "structured interactive sessions" (SIS). SIS involves increased interchange between teachers, students, and lecture contents by proper planning and organized efforts. It can promo...

journal_title：Advances in physiology education

authors： Kumar S

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Item test analysis is an aid to identify items that need to be eliminated from an assessment. An automatic elimination procedure based on item statistics, therefore, could help to increase the quality of a test in an objective manner. This was investigated by studying the effect of a standardized elimination procedure...

journal_title：Advances in physiology education

authors： Muntinga JH,Schuil HA

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Department of Physiology of Pramukhswami Medical College at Anand, Gujarat, India, started using problem-based learning in a modified way along with didactic lectures to improve students' understanding and motivate them toward self-directed study. After the didactic lectures were taken for a particular system, cle...

journal_title：Advances in physiology education

authors： Ghosh S

更新日期：2007-06-01 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 neuromodulator serotonin is an important regulator of aggressive behavior in vertebrates. Experimentally increasing synaptic levels of serotonin with fluoxetine, a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, has been shown to reliably decrease the expression of aggressive behavior. Here, we describe a method by which ...

journal_title：Advances in physiology education

authors： Lynn SE,Egar JM,Walker BG,Sperry TS,Ramenofsky M

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Team-based learning (TBL) is a teaching pedagogy for flipping the classroom that moves the focus of the classroom from the instructor conveying course concepts via lecture to the application of concepts by student teams. It has been used extensively in lecture courses; however, there is little evidence of its use in l...

journal_title：Advances in physiology education

authors： Simonson SR

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative concept mapping, in contrast with qualitative approaches, is rigorous scientifically and permits statistical analyses of data about concept learning. This study extends past quantitative research on the structure of student concept learning in pulmonary physiology. Pathfinder scaling is used to derive con...

journal_title：Advances in physiology education

authors： McGaghie WC,McCrimmon DR,Mitchell G,Thompson JA,Ravitch MM

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The new generations of physicians are, to a large extent, unaware of the complex philosophical and biological concepts that created the bases of modern medicine. Building on the Hellenistic tradition of the four humors and their qualities, Galen (AD 129 to c. 216) provided a persuasive scheme of the structure and func...

journal_title：Advances in physiology education

authors： Neder JA

更新日期：2020-06-01 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：:This study investigated discovery learning pedagogy and its effects on students' achievement and attitudes toward instruction in a lower-division biology course, entitled Structure and Function of Organisms. Instruction was primarily lecture-based but included four discovery learning activities. Results indicate that ...

journal_title：Advances in physiology education

authors： Wilke RR,Straits WJ

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The United States Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine (USARIEM) celebrated its 50th anniversary on July 1, 2011. This article reviews its history, evolution, and transition of its research programs as well as its scientific and military accomplishments, emphasizing the past 25 yr. During the 1990s, USARI...

journal_title：Advances in physiology education

authors： Pandolf KB,Francesconi R,Sawka MN,Cymerman A,Hoyt RW,Young AJ,Zambraski EJ

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-one biology teachers from a variety of disciplines (genetics, ecology, physiology, biochemistry, etc.) met at the University of Colorado to begin discussions about approaches to assessing students' conceptual understanding of biology. We considered what is meant by a "concept" in biology, what the important bio...

journal_title：Advances in physiology education

authors： Michael J

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used a brief analysis of transport via cystic fibrosis (CF) transmembrane conductance regulators (CFTRs) in various organ systems to highlight the importance of basic membrane transport processes across epithelial cells for first-year medical students in physiology. Because CFTRs are involved in transport both...

journal_title：Advances in physiology education

authors： Goodman BE,Percy WH

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The flipped classroom has been shown to have positive outcomes in learning. However, relatively little has been reported on the implementation of it in dental education. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of the flipped classroom on predoctoral dental students' learning. Two consecutive classes of de...

journal_title：Advances in physiology education

authors： Xiao N,Thor,Zheng M,Baek J,Kim G

更新日期：2018-12-01 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：: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 monotony of conventional didactic lectures makes students less attentive toward learning, and they tend to memorize isolated facts without understanding, just for the sake of passing exams. Therefore, to promote a habit of gaining indepth knowledge of basic sciences in medical undergraduates along with honing of t...

journal_title：Advances in physiology education

authors： Mehta B,Bhandari B

更新日期：2016-09-01 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：: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：:"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：:Student self-assessment using computer-based quizzes has been shown to increase subject memory and engagement. Some types of self-assessment quizzes can be associated with a dilemma between 1) medical students who want the self-assessment quiz to be clearly related to upcoming summative assessments or curated by the e...

journal_title：Advances in physiology education

authors： Witchel HJ,Guppy JH,Smith CF

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present work was to transfer a wider concept of teamwork and self-learning to the laboratory, encouraging students' capabilities when seeking, acquiring, and processing knowledge. This educational innovation was carried out with a total of 38 students (fourth year of degree in Biology) in the area of ph...

journal_title：Advances in physiology education

authors： Agüera EI,Sánchez-Hermosín P,Díz-Pérez J,Tovar P,Camacho R,Escribano BM

更新日期：2015-09-01 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：:A case study about carbon monoxide poisoning was used help students gain a greater understanding of the physiology of oxygen transport by the blood. A review of student answers to the case questions showed that students can use the oxygen-hemoglobin dissociation curve to make meaningful determinations of oxygen uptake...

journal_title：Advances in physiology education

authors： Cliff WH

更新日期：2006-12-01 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：:Students often have difficulty understanding the relationship of O(2) consumption, CO(2) production, cardiac output, and distribution of ventilation-perfusion ratios in the lung to the final arterial blood gas composition. To overcome this difficulty, I have developed an interactive computer simulation of pulmonary ga...

journal_title：Advances in physiology education

authors： Kapitan KS

更新日期：2008-03-01 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：: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

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