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This Week You Next Week Me: Rotational Peer‐to‐Peer Dissections and Presentations to Augment Undergraduate Laboratory Sessions
Author(s) -
PariziRobinson Mojgan,
Moore Michael E.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fasebj.2019.33.1_supplement.lb120
Subject(s) - session (web analytics) , medical education , presentation (obstetrics) , dissection (medical) , psychology , subject (documents) , medicine , mathematics education , anatomy , surgery , computer science , library science , world wide web
Human anatomy is a challenging subject for undergraduate students due to the volume of structures and associated complex terminology. The weekly anatomy lab component adds a level of complexity due to the time required to complete each cat dissection (24 students/lab). The prosection projects started in the fall of 2016 and have since continued. The anatomy class consists of 4 labs in the fall, followed by 5 labs in the spring semester. To help students engage with the course content, improve their level of understanding and improve the quality of the dissections Baylor University introduced a rotating peer‐to‐peer teaching activity. Each week a group of 4 students completed the required dissection (i.e., brachial plexus) prior to the scheduled lab. Subsequently during the scheduled lab session this group of 4 students became temporary lab assistants by helping the other 20 students with their own dissections. Additionally, the 4 students conducted a formal presentation to their classmates about their dissection and answered functional and structural questions under the guidance of Dr. Parizi‐Robinson. End of course surveys indicated that students enjoyed both the giving and receiving portion of this activity and enjoyed the level of engagement and increased level of understanding. Therefore, this rotational peer‐to‐peer teaching activity seems to be an effective active educational tool for students' and may be beneficial for other institutions to consider. This abstract is from the Experimental Biology 2019 Meeting. There is no full text article associated with this abstract published in The FASEB Journal .