Improvement of Undergraduate Education through Interdisciplinary Anatomy and Physiology Laboratory Instruction

斯普林菲尔德学院目前的能力有限，无法向所有将从这一科学经验中受益的本科生提供尸体解剖学。目前，只有物理或职业治疗专业的学生才能定期使用人体尸体实验室。该项目通过跨学科的方法，将动手解剖与交互式计算机教学相结合，将这种学习机会扩展到所有就读科学专业和以科学为基础的专业和专业预科课程的本科生。学院生物、物理治疗、职业治疗、运动训练和医师助理项目的学生在实验室研究团队中工作，分享信息、见解和技能。通过这个团队的方法，本科学生从事跨学科的研究，因为他们从形态学和生物化学的角度来研究身体器官系统的相互关系，每个学科都有不同的重点。要求学生在一个跨学科的团队方法中运用批判性思维技能是这个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。这个跨学科的项目将基础科学专业和应用科学专业的学生聚集在一起，分享学习经验，对我们的本科科学教育是一个重大的改进。实践和计算机辅助学习的整合适合所有学生，以及非传统学生和不同学习风格的学生。由此产生的科学课程在学院提供了一个难得的机会，本科科学专业的学生学习解剖学和生理学动手与人体尸体。

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.