Poland J L
Department of Physiology, Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond 23298.
Am J Physiol. 1992 Jun;262(6 Pt 3):S15-7. doi: 10.1152/advances.1992.262.6.S15.
The Department of Physiology at the Medical College of Virginia/Virginia Commonwealth University offered a human physiology course to middle school and high school science teachers in the Richmond, VA, area. It was a three-credit course, team taught, and given at a location convenient to many area teachers. This course served the community by contributing to the continuing education efforts of teachers and concurrently enhanced our recruitment program by advertising "physiology" to teachers who will influence college-bound students for years to come. In addition, we established ties between teachers and physiology faculty such that continuing interactions (e.g., collaborative research during the summer) should be facilitated. The success of the course suggests that this is an effective way to serve local communities, enhance efforts to recruit graduate students into the basic sciences, and at the same time help reverse the educational crisis in the US by bolstering the backgrounds of secondary school teachers.
弗吉尼亚医学院/弗吉尼亚联邦大学生理系为弗吉尼亚州里士满地区的中学理科教师开设了一门人体生理学课程。这是一门三学分的课程，由团队授课，授课地点对许多当地教师来说都很便利。该课程通过为教师的继续教育做出贡献来服务社区，同时通过向未来几年将影响大学生的教师宣传“生理学”来加强我们的招生计划。此外，我们在教师和生理学教师之间建立了联系，以便促进持续的互动（例如暑期合作研究）。该课程的成功表明，这是服务当地社区、加强基础科学研究生招生工作、同时通过加强中学教师背景来帮助扭转美国教育危机的有效途径。
