The main goal of this laboratory is to create a student learning opportunity with a pig heart dissection at the undergraduate level. Focus on equip undergraduate pre-health students with a foundation for lifelong learning and a platform for safe practice as graduate students. Students will be able to learn/review an organ dissection technique and apply clinical anatomy to that organ. In biology, ???structure-function??? refers to the fundamental concept that the shape and arrangement of a biological component, such as an organ, directly determines its function, meaning how it operates or what job it performs. In this lab exercise, students will use organ dissection to understand how body function is determined by its structural anatomy. They will explore the external heart anatomy (shape, texture, sulci, etc.) and the structure???s textures. Then, using basic dissection techniques, they will explore internal anatomical structures. The end goal is to have students explore the concept of ???structure determines function??? and to apply what they learned to a clinical case. Workshop participants will go over the whole lab experience as the students; they will explore external anatomy, dissect a heart in groups, explore internal anatomy and use dissected heart to answer/understand clinical cases. Additionally, I will present data on how student knowledge and attitudes differed when taking classes with and without the pig heart dissection.
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