Physiology lab. [HAPP-L]

[Terry Favero <favero@xxxxxx>]

Friends, as most of your are experiencing, enrollment numbers in A and P 
courses have been going up for the last decade.  This has made staffing in 
these areas challenging at best.  At the university of Portland we teach 
separate A and P courses. Our enrollment numbers would necessitate 
teaching about 3 more physiology labs than we can currently staff.  We 
have tried adjucts, but most are more trouble than they are worth and 
trying to staff these courses on a yearly bases has been almost 
impossible.

Therefore, we are exploring the possibility of teaching 1.5 hour 
physiology that are more clinically based. Currently we teach 3 hour labs 
and have a strong investigative component that generally requires 3 hours 
and sometime more to complete. These labs are not wet labs and we use 
no fluids-human or otherwise. The more clinical labs would be more 
focused on current diagnostic tools and techniques used by health care 
professionals (i.e. EKG, EMG, BP, HR, resp, etc), the science behind the 
technique (i.e. exactly what are you measuring) and applications to 
clinical conditions.  


This is still inthe development stages, but I thought I'd ask the HAPS 
brain trust for comments and suggestions.

Thanks
Terry Favero
University of Portland.




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