The life and death of laboratory teaching of medical physiology: a personal narrative. Part II.

Abstract

Part II of this essay describes the author's participation in the laboratory course instituted by Eugene Landis at Harvard in 1943, a course that drew heavily on Thomas Lewis's example. He describes in detail his own methods of laboratory teaching at Utah and Michigan when, as department chair, he had the responsibility for organizing courses in physiology for medical students. In conclusion, the author laments the curtailment and eventual abolition of laboratory teaching in the 1970s that resulted from curriculum reform, student revolt, and faculty indifference.