Improvement of Undergraduate Education through Interdisciplinary Anatomy and Physiology Laboratory Instruction

斯普林菲尔德学院是有限的，在其目前的能力，提供尸体解剖所有本科生谁将受益于这一科学经验。目前，只有主修物理或职业治疗的学生可以定期使用人体尸体实验室。 该项目通过跨学科的方法将这种学习机会扩展到所有就读于理科专业和以科学为基础的专业和专业预科课程的本科生，该方法将动手解剖与基于计算机的交互式教学相结合。学生在学院的生物学，物理治疗，职业治疗，运动训练，和医生助理程序在实验室研究团队工作，分享信息，见解和技能。通过这种团队方法，本科生从事跨学科研究，因为他们从形态学和生物化学的角度研究身体器官系统的相互关系，并根据每个学科的不同焦点。 要求学生在跨学科团队中使用批判性思维技能是该项目的重要组成部分。 学生培养形成跨学科边界的假设，寻求解决方案和捍卫结果的技能。这个跨学科的项目是我们的本科科学教育的一个重大改进，因为它汇集了基础和应用科学专业的共享学习经验。动手和计算机辅助学习的整合适应所有学生以及非传统学生和学习风格不同的学生。由此产生的科学课程在学院提供了不寻常的机会本科科学专业学习解剖学和生理学动手与人类尸体。

Springfield College is limited in its current ability to offer cadaver anatomy to all undergraduate students who would benefit from this science experience. Currently, only students majoring in Physical or Occupational Therapy can regularly use the human cadaver laboratory. This project extends this learning opportunity to all undergraduate students enrolled in science majors and science-based professional and pre-professional programs through an interdisciplinary approach that integrates hands-on dissection with interactive computer-based instruction. Students in the College's Biology, Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Athletic Training, and Physician Assistant programs work in laboratory study teams to share information, insights, and skills. Through this team approach, undergraduate students engage in interdisciplinary study as they study the interrelationships of body organ systems from a morphological and biochemical view, with differing foci appropriate to each of their disciplines. Requiring students to use critical-thinking skills in an interdisciplinary team approach is an essential part of this project. Students develop skills in forming hypotheses that cross disciplinary borders, seeking solutions and defending the outcomes. This interdisciplinary project is a significant improvement for our undergraduate science education as it brings together basic and applied science majors in shared learning experiences. The integration of hands-on and computer-assisted learning accommodates all students as well as nontraditional students and students with differing learning styles. The resulting science curricula at the College provides the unusual opportunity for undergraduate science majors to learn anatomy and physiology hands-on with human cadavers.