The HAPS blog site has been created to promote HAPS members sharing personal accounts of topics relevant to the HAPS membership and the larger community. The blog is the perfect place to publish content on a wide variety of topics, from teaching tips to A&P related camps or experiences. Ideal blog posts are between 300-500 words and contain a few images. As a blog author, you just need to provide your text and images – the HAPS Blog team will take care of editing and publication.
We invite everyone to join in the conversation and become part of the community. If you are an active HAPS member, you can become a blogger on HAPSblog in just a few easy steps:
1) Review the HAPS Blog guidelines.
2) Think up a topic that will be interesting to HAPS members. Topics that are likely to be interesting include the story of your first year teaching, integrating new methods in the classroom with real-time evaluation of how it is going, a multi-part series on a specific topic ranging from teaching to testing to building a new lab.
3) Propose your topic and timeframe in a short email to the HAPS Blog Master by emailing hapsblog@hapsconnect.org.
4) Start blogging!
10- Professional Development
I was very lucky to attend a talk by MIT physics professor Eric Mazur last week at Humboldt State…
Shadowing Trauma Surgeons
My last week in Sacramento, in addition to trying to pack and get everything back in my car, I…
Where Did the Summer Go?
I feel like I’m in one of those sports-car ads: Goes 0 to 60 in blah blah seconds. I…
9- Attendance
Concerns about student attendance is one of the arguments I’ve heard against flipping. Why would students bother coming to…
Out of the Country with A&P on the Mind – Part 2
As a continuation of my blog from Aug. 7, below are some additional observations from my recent trip to…
Shadowing Surgical Oncology
Of all of the medical specialties I knew I’d be seeing, I’ve had the most history with cancer. The…
8- DO Something!
Figuring out how to motivate students to come to class prepared is the first half of a successful flip. …
Out of the country with A&P on the mind – Part 1
As of July 1, I began my term as the new HAPS secretary. However, summer is slow for board…
Shadowing: Vascular Surgery
Just blood vessels? It struck me as too narrow a field to specialize in. Not as glorious as Cardiothoracic.…
7- Do Online Lectures Work?
It can take some serious momentum to motivate the filming of your own video lectures to flip a class. …
Arrivederci Italia!
Salve i miei colleghi! In my previous post about Anatomia Italiana 2013 our group had just visited the La…
Shadowing: Plastic Surgery
After multiple shifts with plastic surgeons in the OR they take over after mastectomies or other cancers are removed. …