About Anatomy and Physiology Preparatory Textbook

About Anatomy and Physiology Preparatory Textbook

The goal of this preparatory textbook is to give students a chance to familiarize with some terms and some basic concepts they will find later on in the Anatomy and Physiology course, especially during the first few weeks of the course.

Organization and functioning of the human organism are generally presented starting from the simplest building blocks, and then moving into levels of increasing complexity. This textbook follows the same presentation. It starts introducing the concept of homeostasis, then covers the chemical level, and later on a basic introduction to cellular level, organ level, and organ system level. This second edition incorporates a module on protein synthesis, and a complementary base pairing learning objective as requested by many students. This edition adds links to audios for all learning objectives, and many learning objectives have online videos associated to

them. Icons for audio by Kieselli and for video by Satheesh Sankaran from, both from Pixabay.

The textbook is organized in five UNITS, divided into sixteen MODULES covering a total of fifty-three Learning Objectives. There is a short self-assessment at the end of each learning objective.

Learning Objectives Content

1. The list of Learning Objectives (LO) is a derivative work of the Learning Outcomes Guidelines by The

Human Anatomy and Physiology Society (HAPS). 2. Important terms associated with each LO are shown in Arial Bold. 3. Etymology of some new terms is shown between brackets next to the term. The sources are The Free

Dictionary by Farlex, and The Online Etymology Dictionary. 4. Illustrations are under Creative Commons licenses, or in the Public Domain. Their sources are cited next to them. The illustration on the cover is by Elisa Riva retrieved from Pixabay. 5. Tables compare terms, facts or concepts easier to visualize in a table format, and are used to summarize important information. 6. There are links to simulations, interactive activities and videos added to many learning objectives for this second edition. They serve to summarize, and also to show some descriptions from the text in a different way.

Assessment Content

1. Review Questions address terms, concepts and facts discussed within each learning objective. Most questions are knowledge questions (Bloom’s taxonomy first level). 2. Tests are written in the format that students usually find in college exams (mostly multiple-choice questions, with some true/false, and some fill in the blank). Test questions are a mix of knowledge, comprehension and application questions (Bloom’s taxonomy first three levels).

Acknowledgments

Dr. Maureen Gannon contributed with the editing of the first edition and with the development of the question bank. First online version the Preparatory Course was possible thanks to Bronx Community College Library

Open Education Resources Project.

Recommended Citation

Liachovitzky, Carlos, "Human Anatomy and Physiology Preparatory Course Textbook" (2021). CUNY Academic Works. https://academicworks.cuny.edu/bx_oers/1

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