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By Maya Quale
Ms. Campbell’s Anatomy and Physiology (A&P) students had
the chance on Friday November 18, to visit Wright State’s Medical School, the
Boonshoft School of Medicine. Anatomy and Physiology is a one credit, year-long
elective course that juniors and seniors at DRSS can take. The anatomy portion of the course is learning the different
parts of the body, and physiology is discovering how those parts function
together.
During their field trip to Boonshoft, four Wright State
undergraduate students were gracious enough to take time out of their busy days
to teach students about the body systems, show various organs, and demonstrate
using a cadaver (dead body). Because there were only two hours spent there,
students were taught in a timely manner.
Students were able to learn about six
of the eleven body systems: respiratory, cardiovascular, nervous, skeletal,
urinary, and the digestive. After each system was presented, the medical
students would display an organ that DRSS students were able to handle and
inquire about. For example, after the cardiovascular system was explained,
students were then able to handle a human heart.
With about half an hour left, students were split into four
groups took turns observing four cadavers. The cadavers that the undergraduate
students practiced learning with were ones that the medical students had
dissected and were intact. DRSS students were given the chance to study these
cadavers while Wright States’ students articulated knowledge about what was
just learned. Once that was complete, DRSS students completed a survey about
their experience at Boonshoft and returned to DRSS.
Going to the Boonshoft
School of Medicine was a very enjoyable trip where DRSS students were able to
take the knowledge that they had gained from taking Anatomy and Physiology and
implement it in a real-life situation rather than looking at pictures. 11th
grade student, Bendic Pacia says, “I thought it was really interesting to see
what happens to the bodies that people donate to science. It was a very
enjoyable experience.” For visual learners, this was a very beneficial field trip that progressed them in their learning endeavor because they could better understand how the human body articulates using real 3-D models. A&P students will progress their learning endeavor by studying the muscular system next.
