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You know that old, grim academic saying, “Publish or perish”? We at HAPS prefer to say “Publish and flourish!” While your home institution may have specific expectations regarding scholarship, we offer several options for “publishing” (in the broad sense of…
For most instructors, the Fall term brings a fresh start with our courses. It also tends to bring a sense of feeling overwhelmed with all the things we could be doing. As much as I enjoy and look forward to the…
Imagine that while preparing those last few materials for the start of the semester you receive a call from Disability Support Services indicating that you will have a student with total blindness in your A&P class. The semester begins in…
It is the ultimate challenge and lifelong pursuit of educators to facilitate learning among students with different educational backgrounds, first languages, and learning styles. Concurrently, we work to foster individual strengths and ideas that each student brings to our classroom.…
Some of our most popular blog posts describe teaching tips developed by HAPS members. We choose a handful of these to publish on the blog, but there are hundreds of tips that have been collected over the years. These little…
Although it is not a particularly difficult concept, sometimes students have trouble remembering the different names that the subclavian artery takes on as it passes through the superior mediastinum and base of the neck into the axilla (as the axillary…
When I teach endocrinology students our unit on the adrenal gland cortical hormones, I always post a PowerPoint slide which depicts a Wikipedia image of the renin-aldosterone-angiotensin-system (RAAS). Its author does an elegant job of elaborating angiotensin II’s targets and responses, which include…
Have you taught those boring muscles lately? And those dreaded origins and insertions? And when students get to the exam they are frazzled and sad? Why do we do the same things over and over and wonder why students don’t…
It’s likely that at this point I do not need to convince most of you that active learning can be highly beneficial to student learning. There is a multitude of resources, including HAPS Educator articles, which discuss successful active learning…
Muscles and bones, bones and muscles. How many times have my students learned the deltoid tuberosity in the bone unit, only to complain that they have to learn all these bone names as part of their muscle attachments?! Many of…