Twelve tips for teaching neuroanatomy, from the medical students’ perspective (Preprint)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanskrithi Sravanam ◽  
Chloë Jacklin ◽  
Eoghan McNelis
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
High Yield ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
Fine Detail ◽  
Yield Learning ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Haptic Learning ◽  
And Function ◽  
Own Name

BACKGROUND Neuroanatomy is a complex and fascinating subject that is often a daunting prospect for medical students. In fact, the fear of learning neuroanatomy has gained its own name – “neurophobia”. OBJECTIVE To tackle “neurophobia” by summarising twelve tips for dynamic and engaging neuroanatomy teaching. METHODS Tips were formulated based on our experiences as three senior medical students and evidence-based techniques. RESULTS The 12 tips are (1) Big concepts before fine detail, (2) Draw an annotated diagram, (3) Teach form and function together, (4) Group anatomy into systems, (5) Teach the vasculature, (6) Familiarise students with neuroimaging, (7) Use dissections for haptic learning, (8) Teach from clinical cases, (9) Build from first principles, (10) Try working in reverse, (11) Let the student become the teacher, (12) Let the student become the examiner. CONCLUSIONS These 12 tips can be used by teachers and students alike to provide a high-yield learning experience.

Neuroanatomy

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Fisch
Keyword(s):  
Learning Experience ◽  
High Yield ◽  
Brain Images ◽  
Advanced Level ◽  
Muscle Testing ◽  
Effective Manner ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Yield Learning ◽  
Unique Method ◽  
Learning Points

Neuroanatomy: Draw It to Know It, Second Edition teaches neuroanatomy in a purely kinaesthetic way. In using this resource, each neuroanatomical pathway and structure is learned by drawing, and through this process, memorable and reproducible schematics for the various learning points in neuroanatomy are created in a hands-on, enjoyable, and highly effective manner. In addition to this unique method, this resource also provides a remarkable repository of reference materials, including numerous anatomic and radiographic brain images, muscle-testing photographs, and illustrations from many other classic texts, which all enhance the learning experience. This new edition adds "Know-It" points to each chapter, providing high-yield learning methods that separate the essential from the advanced topics. It engages the reader in a direct manner while covering both the advanced level of detail needed as well as retaining the simplistic approach used in learning this challenging subject.

How to chat in English and Chinese: Emerging digital language conventions

ReCALL ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 308-329 ◽  
Author(s):  
HEATHER LOTHERINGTON ◽  
YEJUN XU
Keyword(s):  
Online Communication ◽  
Language Instruction ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Second Languages ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
World Languages ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Digital Environments ◽  
And Function

Rapid changes in language form and function occurring in digital environments present teachers and students of second languages alike with conundrums as to language and discourse standards. Factors affecting the changes that are emerging in digital English include the spatial and temporal possibilities and constraints of the medium, digital facilitation of case-creativity and iconic incorporation, and new social network configurations. This paper analyzes evolving changes in orthographic, syntactic, discourse and sociocultural conventions occurring in English and Chinese in digital environments, based on a small scale study conducted at York University in 2002–2003, noting trends across these languages as well as more limited, culturally and linguistically specific evolutions. The converging conventional changes occurring in these two major world languages suggest that similar transitions are happening generally in languages used for online communication, which has serious implications for second language instruction.

One-minute Preceptors in Action: Breast Radiologists and the Medical Student General Radiology Elective

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheila S Lee ◽  
Gary L Beck Dallaghan ◽  
Jorge D Oldan ◽  
Sheryl G Jordan
Keyword(s):  
Medical Student ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Learning Styles ◽  
Breast Imaging ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Teaching Strategy ◽  
Learning Experiences ◽  
High Yield ◽  
Yield Learning ◽  
Breast Radiologist

Abstract Breast imaging, with its unique patient-facing, multimodality, and multidisciplinary workflow, offers opportunities to engage medical students enrolled in a general radiology rotation and to highlight the role of the radiologist in patient care. At a time when breast radiologists face unprecedented challenges in delivering safe and efficient imaging services, however, accommodating larger numbers of medical students can overwhelm reading rooms, dilute meaningful learning experiences for the student, and place further demands on faculty. In order to meet the students’ and clinician educators’ needs, Neher’s one-minute preceptor teaching strategy is used to create a high-yield learning environment in a short amount of time. In this model, the breast radiologist weaves together multiple impactful and varied learning experiences in only 8 to 12 total hours of structured student exposure during the 160-hour general radiology course. We describe our adaptation of this technique and the positive impact that a short breast imaging component had on our general radiology medical student rotation. This standardized curriculum is easily adapatable to a variety of learning styles. It contributes to medical students’ understanding of the various facets of radiology through direct participation and exceeds education goals set forth by the Alliance of Medical Student Educators in Radiology. Students’ evaluations of the general radiology rotation demonstrated a sharp uptick in the year following the adoption of the technique, and students’ rotation final examination mean scores on the breast questions were higher for students who participated at least eight hours on service in the breast radiology clinic.

Neuroanatomy

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam J Fisch
Keyword(s):  
Learning Experience ◽  
High Yield ◽  
Brain Images ◽  
Advanced Level ◽  
Muscle Testing ◽  
Effective Manner ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Yield Learning ◽  
Unique Method ◽  
Learning Points

Neuroanatomy: Draw It to Know It, Second Edition teaches neuroanatomy in a purely kinaesthetic way. In using this resource, each neuroanatomical pathway and structure is learned by drawing, and through this process, memorable and reproducible schematics for the various learning points in neuroanatomy are created in a hands-on, enjoyable, and highly effective manner. In addition to this unique method, this resource also provides a remarkable repository of reference materials, including numerous anatomic and radiographic brain images, muscle-testing photographs, and illustrations from many other classic texts, which all enhance the learning experience. This new edition adds "Know-It" points to each chapter, providing high-yield learning methods that separate the essential from the advanced topics. It engages the reader in a direct manner while covering both the advanced level of detail needed as well as retaining the simplistic approach used in learning this challenging subject.

Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) of DNA and RNA

1989 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 34-35
Author(s):  
Patricia G. Arscott ◽  
Gil Lee ◽  
Victor A. Bloomfield ◽  
D. Fennell Evans
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Structures ◽  
Inorganic Materials ◽  
Resolving Power ◽  
Scanning Tunneling ◽  
Tunneling Microscopy ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
Dna And Rna ◽  
Calf Thymus ◽  
And Function ◽  
The Relationship

STM is one of the most promising techniques available for visualizing the fine details of biomolecular structure. It has been used to map the surface topography of inorganic materials in atomic dimensions, and thus has the resolving power not only to determine the conformation of small molecules but to distinguish site-specific features within a molecule. That level of detail is of critical importance in understanding the relationship between form and function in biological systems. The size, shape, and accessibility of molecular structures can be determined much more accurately by STM than by electron microscopy since no staining, shadowing or labeling with heavy metals is required, and there is no exposure to damaging radiation by electrons. Crystallography and most other physical techniques do not give information about individual molecules.We have obtained striking images of DNA and RNA, using calf thymus DNA and two synthetic polynucleotides, poly(dG-me5dC)·poly(dG-me5dC) and poly(rA)·poly(rU).

Re-examining the form and function of superstition

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Fluke ◽  
Russell J. Webster ◽  
Donald A. Saucier
Keyword(s):  
Form And Function ◽  
And Function

A New Form and Function for Personality

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Wilt ◽  
William Revelle
Keyword(s):  
Form And Function ◽  
New Form ◽  
And Function
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