Nick:

I am going to offer some armchair general advice because I have not implemented TBL in an A&P class.  I think you could have incredible flexibility with the formation of big units out of chapters since so many of the body systems are interconnected.  I would probably go for a support and movement unit (skeleton/muscle), uptake and transport (respiratory/circulatory/digestive), etc.  What goes under each umbrella unit theme could change depending on what you want to emphasize.  You could concentrate on motor neurons and include the nervous system under my support and movement unit for example.  The real challenge is whittling each chapter down to fit your "doing" goals during backward course design.  Those are my untested, untried thoughts anyway.  :)

I do a comparative anatomy course and have been thinking about ways to integrate TBL into the anatomy lab.  Do you use TBL in your A&P lab too?

Dan       

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 5:56 AM, Dianne York <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Hello Nick,

For A&P, I break each semester into 6 units of material, therefore I administer
6 RATs. Each unit covers about 2 chapters in the text. My RATs have 15
questions. Hope this helps.

Dianne York, MS, MT(ASCP)
Biology
Lincoln University, PA
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On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 17:16:36 -0400, Nick Roster <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I have implemented TBL in my 2-semester Anatomy & Physiology class. I
love
>it. However, I was wondering if anyone else has done the same. The issue I
>am running into is that my iRATS and gRATS are only over a chapter at a
>time. I can't seem to think outside the text on this one. Is it unwise to
>have so many (about 13) RATs a semester. I am using them to introduce the
>chapter material, then we launch into cases from there. Any thoughts?
>
>Thanks
>
>Nick
>
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