Teaching Innovation in Computer Network Course for Undergraduate Students with Packet Tracer

Teaching cardiology to undergraduate students.

Modern cardiology is based on knowledge derived from several disciplines: Anatomy and embryology, physiology, pathology and bacteriology, pharmacology, physics, roentgenology, physical diagnosis, comparative biology, general medicine and surgery, pediatrics, and therapeutics. Psychiatry in all its aspects, public health, industrial organization, and social service, have multiple problems in com...

Students helping students: Evaluating a pilot program of peer teaching for an undergraduate course in human anatomy

The educational literature generally suggests that supplemental instruction (SI) is effective in improving academic performance in traditionally difficult courses. A pilot program of peer teaching based on the SI model was implemented for an undergraduate course in human anatomy. Students in the course were stratified into three groups based on the number of peer teaching sessions they attended...

Integrating the Teaching of Informatics to Medical Students in a Problem-based Learning Undergraduate Course

Paulo Marcondes Carvalho-Junior, MD, MSc , Renato M.E. Sabbatini, PhD 1 Professor and Chairman, Medical Informatics, Marilia Medical School of, São Paulo, Brazil, and Doctoral Student, Dept of Biomedical Engineering, State University of Campinas. 2 Professor and Chairman, Medical Informatics, Faculty of Medical Sciences, and Director, Center for Biomedical Informatics, State University of Campi...

“Writing in Neuroscience”: A Course Designed for Neuroscience Undergraduate Students

Although neuroscience students may learn to write in a generic fashion through university writing courses, they receive little training in writing in their field. Here I describe a course that was created at the request of a Neuroscience Department with the intent to teach neuroscience students how to write well in their discipline. I explain the purpose for creating the "Writing in Neuroscienc...

Teaching learning disability to undergraduate medical students