BACKGROUND Laboratory exercises are intended to illustrate concepts and add an active learning component to courses. Since 1980s, there has been a decline in animal laboratories in medical physiology courses. Other cost-effective non-aninmal alternatives are being sought. The present study was designed to find out the students' opinion regarding the animal versus computer lab and whether innova...

Felder E, Fauler M, Geiler S. Introducing e-learning/teaching in a physiology course for medical students: acceptance by students and subjective effect on learning. Adv Physiol Educ 37: 337–342, 2013; doi:10.1152/advan.00158.2012.—Retrieval of information has substantially changed within the last two decades. Naturally, this has also affected learning/teaching techniques, and methods that are c...

Background: Despite over dependence on PowerPoint, few studies have focused on the value of animations versus static illustrations in Physiology teaching. This study was aimed to assess first year undergraduate medical student’s response towards the effectiveness of Animation-based Lectures (ABL) in Physiology and its comparison with other existing teaching modalities. Methods: A questionnaire ...

Educators in medical schools around the world are presently experimenting with innovative ways of using web-based learning to supplement the existing teaching and learning process. We have recently used a popular open-source course management system (CMS) called the modular object-oriented dynamic learning environment (Moodle) to construct an online site (DPhysiol) to facilitate our face-to-fac...

The literature related to the physiology of singing voice has gained more and space within teaching practice both in relation understanding concepts this regarding use specific vocal exercises, among them, semioccluded tract exercises (SOVTE).

This article reminisces about the life and key scientific achievements of Jan Evangelista Purkinje (1787-1869), a versatile 19th century Czech pioneer of modern experimental physiology. In 1804, after completing senior high school, Purkinje joined the Piarist monk order, but, after a 3-yr novitiate, he gave up the religious calling "to deal more freely with science." In 1818, he earned a Medica...