The human anatomy teacher-scholar: meeting the expectations of educational outcomes research, course content innovation, and textbook innovation for educational scholarship

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Title The human anatomy teacher-scholar: meeting the expectations of educational outcomes research, course content innovation, and textbook innovation for educational scholarship
Publication Type dissertation
School or College School of Medicine
Department Neurobiology & Anatomy
Author Eckel, Christine Marie
Date 2010-04-21
Description A human anatomy teacher-scholar is a scholar whose area of expertise includes content knowledge of the anatomical sciences (gross anatomy, histology, embryology, and/or neuroanatomy) and whose research interests and focus are centered in medical educational outcomes. The projects described in this dissertation represent endeavors I engaged in to become a human anatomy teacher-scholar. These projects included: 1) prospectively testing a hypothesis, and performing outcomes assessment in a field for which little data (theory) exist (dissection guide educational research project), 2) creating innovative course content that bridged disciplines (cadaver autopsy project), and 3) composing original teaching material for a specific audience (human anatomy laboratory manual). The training of a human anatomy teacher-scholar emphasizes knowledge acquisition in both the basic sciences (particularly gross anatomy) and in educational outcomes research methodology and theory. Therefore, human anatomy teacher-scholars are positioned to create innovative course content and materials and assess the innovations to guide future efforts. These are important skills for faculty members involved in the education of medical students in the U.S. as the medical education system in the U.S. continues to evolve.
Type Text
Publisher University of Utah
Subject Human Anatomy
Subject MESH Anatomy; Diffusion of Innovation; Education, Medical
Dissertation Institution University of Utah
Dissertation Name PhD
Language eng
Relation is Version of Digital reproduction of "The human anatomy teacher-scholar: meeting the expectations of educational outcomes research, course content innovation, and textbook innovation for education scholarship." Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library. Print version of "The human anatomy teacher-scholar: meeting the expectations of educational outcomes research, course content innovation, and textbook innovation for educational scholarship." available at J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collection. QM5.5 2009.E34.
Rights Management © Christine Marie Eckel
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