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Advan. Physiol. Edu. 29: 51-53, 2005; doi:10.1152/advan.00042.2004
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ADV PHYSIOL EDUC 29:51-53, 2005
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Chewing over physiology integration

Fernando Abdulkader, Anna Karenina Azevedo-Martins, Manoel de Arcisio Miranda and Kellen Brunaldi

Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Address for reprint requests and other correspondence: F. Abdulkader, Dept. of Physiology and Biophysics, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Univ. of São Paulo, Av. Prof. Lineu Prestes 1524, 05508-900 São Paulo, Brazil (E-mail: fkader{at}icb.usp.br)

An important challenge for both students and teachers of physiology is to integrate the different areas in which physiological knowledge is didactically divided. In developing countries, such an issue is even more demanding, because budget restrictions often affect the physiology program with laboratory classes being the first on the list when it comes to cuts in expenses. With the aim of addressing this kind of problem, the graduate students of our department organized a physiology summer course offered to undergraduate students. The objective was to present the different physiological systems in an integrated fashion. The strategy pursued was to plan laboratory classes whose experimental results were the basis for the relevant theoretical discussions. The subject we developed to illustrate physiology integration was the study of factors influencing salivary secretion.






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