Sleep exerts major effects on most fundamental homeostatic mechanisms. Current data suggest, however, that students of physiology and medicine typically receive little or no formal teaching in sleep. Because sleep takes up a significant component of our life span, it is proposed that current teaching in systems and integrative physiology is not representative if it is confined to functions desc...

The roots of physiology lie in laboratory observation, and physiology courses continue to rely on laboratory observation to provide students with practical information to correlate with their developing base of conceptual knowledge. To this end, animal laboratories provide a functioning example of interactions among organ systems and a source of data for student analysis. However, there are con...

In this article, we review how we interact with medical students in our efforts to teach blood pressure regulation and systemic cardiovascular control along with related elements of respiratory and exercise physiology. Rather than provide a detailed lecture with key facts, we attempted to outline our approach to teaching integrative cardiovascular physiology to medical students, which includes ...

By 1900, physiology in England was a well-defined academic discipline served by independent departments with full-time professorial staff.' Within the University of London there were twelve medical schools, each teaching physiology to its own students. These schools were, to a large extent, self-governing institutions within the federal framework of the University. As a central organization the...

S OF POSTERS AND DEMONSTRATIONS Cardiovascular physiology learning objectives: the medical physiology core curriculum objectives project Robert G. Carroll Department of Physiology, East Carolina University School of Medicine, Grenville, NC 27858-3454 (E-mail: [email protected]) An appropriate understanding of physiology is essential to the intelligent practice of medicine. Consequently,...

This is a report of a workshop presented at Experimental Biology '99 on April 18, 1999, in Washington, DC.

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This laboratory session provides hands-on experience for students to visualize the beating human heart with ultrasound imaging. Simple views are obtained from which students can directly measure important cardiac dimensions in systole and diastole. This allows students to derive, from first principles, important measures of cardiac function, such as stroke volume, ejection fraction, and cardiac...

Acid/base homeostasis is one of the most difficult subdisciplines of physiology for medical students to master. A different approach, where theory and practice are linked, might help students develop a deeper understanding of acid/base homeostasis. We therefore set out to develop a laboratory exercise in acid/base physiology that would provide students with unambiguous and reproducible data tha...

This report presents highlights of a refresher course presented at Experimental Biology '99 on Saturday, April 17, 1999, in Washington, District of Columbia.