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Computer-based Instructional Development
The Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology is among the leading departments
in the development of computer-based instructional packages for
professional, graduate and undergraduate students. The faculty receive
technical and design support through the Computer Based Instructional
Laboratory (CBIL) in the School of Medicine. Currently over 15 separate
programs have been developed which are used in Graduate, Medical, Dental,
Pharmacy and Allied Health curricula in the traditional anatomical
disciplines.
Under the leadership of Drs. Alice Pakurar
and John Bigbee the histology
teaching faculty including Drs. Randall Merchant
and Andras Szakal have
created a Histology CD package entitled Digital Histology. This package
contains over 700 original light and electron micrograph images, and with
the accompanying original drawings, descriptions and identifications covers
the entire Histology course. The CD package is currently used in place of
traditional laboratories in the first year undergraduate medical
curriculum.
Drs. George Leichnetz, John Povlishock and Robert Spencer have developed a computer-based
instructional program on the sectional anatomy of the brain and spinal cord which
interfaces high quality color images with a descriptive text and interactive
quizzes. In addition, two CD packages have been created which cover the light
and electron microscopic structure of the nervous system and a self test on the
nuclei and connections of the central nervous system.
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Faculty:
Dr. J.W. Bigbee
Dr. C. Jackson
Dr. G. Leichnetz
Dr. J.R. McClung
Dr. R. Merchant
Dr. A. Pakurar
Dr. M. Sholley
Dr. H. Seibel
Dr. A. Szakal
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These most recent efforts continue a long tradition begun in the Department by
Dr. Erling Hegre who used an automated sectioning device to capture serial
sections of the pig embryo onto 16 mm film. More recently, Dr. Thomas Harris
transferred these images to electronic medium. In her Human Embryology course,
Dr. Caroline Goode Jackson incorporated
original images with narrations into packages for student review. Also
pioneering the use of technology, Drs. Hugo Seibel, Richard Weymouth and Jack
Burke photographed a substantial part of the histology teaching slide collection
and produced a histology atlas on microfiche. This commitment to the use of
technology to enhance the teaching mission of the department continues as we
expand to use the Internet and the World Wide Web to provide more diversity to
meet the individual learning styles of our students.
Titles
- Visual Histology
- Electron-Microscopic Histology of the Nervous System
- Light-Microscopic Histology of the Nervous System
- Review Questions in Gross Anatomy of the Head and Neck
- Review Questions in Gross Anatomy of the Thorax and Lower Extremity
- Head to Toe (review questions with hints and explanations)
- The Upper Extremity
- Narrated Images of the Upper Extremity on Photo-CD
- Gross and Sectional Anatomy of the Central Nervous System,
R.F. Spencer, G.R. Leichnetz, and J.T. Povlishock
- Self Test on the Nuclei and Connections of the Central Nervous System,
G.R. Leichnetz
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