Enrichment of Quantitative and Technological Skills in Introductory Anatomy and Physiology Courses

9451796尼尔森生物科学系建议提高其大量使用的200级人体解剖学和生理学课程序列的质量。这个为期两个学期的课程每年有多达600名学生参加，其中大多数人将在教育，科学和相关健康领域担任职务。对于这些学生中的许多人来说，这将是他们对人体结构和功能的唯一训练。在目前的配置中，这个项目的实验室部分主要是解剖学的，教学辅助包括图表、模型和保存的解剖标本；生理原理的实验室教学仅限于“示范水平”的活动。我们怀疑，这种对解剖研究的强调，而不是“动手”实验练习，主导了其他机构类似课程的实验室组成部分。因此，许多学生在学习生理学的同时失去了提高分析和技术技能的宝贵机会。我们的建议旨在通过为陶森州立大学200级解剖学和生理学实验室配备低成本、耐用的生理监测设备，来纠正我们的毕业生在定量能力和仪器知识方面的明显下降。我们还建议在新颖的实验室练习中使用这种仪器，学生自己作为受试者和实验者。重点将放在“动手”学习生理学，并要求学生掌握定量的技能，以便分析他们收集的数据。在这个水平上接触仪器生理学也将为学生提供分析和评估技术的基础，专注于他们的研究领域，并将加速他们向专业人士的过渡。此外，通过仪器仪表我们的200级实验室，我们将暴露我们的先进生理学实验室的未来学生，计划过渡到计算机数据采集，传统仪器技术在二年级水平。

9451796 Nelson The Department of Biological Sciences proposes to improve the quality of its heavily utilized 200-level Human Anatomy and Physiology course sequence. This two-semester program is taken by as many as 600 students per annum, most of whom are destined for positions in education, science, and the allied health fields. For many of these students, this will be their only training in the structure and function of the human body. In its current configuration, the laboratory segment of this program is largely anatomical with instructional aids consisting of charts, models, and preserved dissection specimens; teaching of physiological principles in the laboratory is restricted to "demonstration level" activity. We suspect that this emphasis on anatomical study, as opposed to "hands on" experimental exercises, dominates the laboratory components of similar courses at other institutions. Thus, many students are missing a valuable opportunity to enhance their analytical and technological skills while learning physiology. Our proposal seeks to redress a perceived decline in the quantitative abilities and instrumentation literacy of our graduates by providing the means for outfitting the 200-level Anatomy and Physiology laboratories at Towson State University with low-cost, durable physiological monitoring equipment. We also propose to use this instrumentation in novel laboratory exercises in which the students themselves serve as subject and experimentor. Emphasis will be placed on "hands-on" learning of physiology and requiring the students to master quantitative skills in order to analyze the data they collect. Exposure to instrumented physiology at this level will also provide the students with a foundation in the analytical and evaluative techniques focal to their fields of inquiry and will accelerate their transition to professionals. Additionally, by instrumenting our 200-level laboratories, we will expose prospective students of our advanced physiology laboratories, slated for a transition to computerized data acquisition, to conventional instrumentation technology at the sophomore level.