Pathophysiology Online To Accompany Understanding Pathophysiology User Guide And Access Code

Author : EUGENE D. FRANK
Publisher : W B Saunders Company
ISBN 13 : 9781416024668
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (246 download)

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Download or read book Pathophysiology Online for Pathophysiology (User Guide and Access Code) written by EUGENE D. FRANK and published by W B Saunders Company. This book was released on 2006-08-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interactive online course presents pathophysiology content in a variety of formats, designed to aid understanding and learning the material presented in Copstead: Pathophysiology. Pathophysiology Online is organized into modules that correspond with key chapters in the core text. These modules explain and clarify difficult concepts with interactive activities, animations, and case studies. Augmenting the material found in the textbook, this online course also offers narrated algorithms, self-assessment reviews, activities, on-screen feedback, and exams, and more. Enhances and supplements the textbook with animation, sound, and interactive exercises - simplifying and clarifying key processes and concepts. Includes hundreds of engaging activities and exercises - such as table-drop, fill-in, matching, and short answer - to challenge students and make learning more entertaining. Supports diverse learning styles with activities and material that use voiceovers, narrations, on-screen captions, and visual cues. Provides guided reading assignments in each module for students to read corresponding pages in the textbook. Augments content in the textbook with a greater depth of focus on key topics such as genetics and immunology. Includes over 85 specially created, narrated animations to show some of the most complex pathophysiologic processes. Uses narrated algorithms and activities to describe cause-and-effect relationships in health and disease processes. Adds over 600 high-quality figures on disease presentations or to illustrate difficult concepts. Features case examples throughout to encourage development of critical thinking skills and application of theoretical knowledge to real-life scenarios. Provides pretests at the beginning of every module to help students test their understanding of normal structure and function and determine their readiness to move ahead. Review resources are offered for students who have difficulty on the pre-tests. Gives students immediate, on-screen feedback on all activities and assessments, correcting mistakes and reinforcing learning. Provides rationales for both correct and incorrect responses to help students not only know if an answer was correct or incorrect, but why. Includes a comprehensive, graded exam for every module that may be used as self-assessment, as an interim assessment tool to measure student progress, or as mid-term or end-of-term review tools. Provides Further Exploration sections with carefully selected and reviewed articles, textbooks, and websites to help further understanding of key topics. Provides a glossary with quick, easy access to definitions of new and unfamiliar terms. Includes discussion questions or guided scenarios to lead into an online discussion forum, allowing student responses and interaction. Provides instructors with complete, professionally prepared, ready-to-use lessons, saving valuable preparation time. Features lessons that are completely customizable, allowing instructors to easily modify, add, or remove material as appropriate for their students. Provides instructors with a variety of communications tools such as real-time chat, a class calendar, e-mail connections, bulletin and discussion boards, and an instructor syllabus. Includes online course management tools help instructors track student progress and mastery within each module. Hundreds of engaging activities and exercises. Activities and content that use both voice-overs, narrations, on screen text, and visual cues. Augmented content on complex topics such as genetics and immunology. Over 70 specially created, narrated animations. Almost 500 high-quality figures illustrate tough concepts and key clinical presentations of disease processes for all body systems. Case studies throughout to encourage development of critical thinking skills and application of knowledge about pathophysiology to real-world situations. Pre-tests for every major body system. Review resources are offered for students who have difficulty on the pre-tests. Rationales for both correct and incorrect responses. A comprehensive exam with rationales for every module. Carefully reviewed resources for core topics. A glossary for quick, easy access to definitions.