Novel capillary filtration module bridges biomedical sciences and engineering to improve interdisciplinary education

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The concepts underlying capillary filtration are fundamental topics in physiology courses taught to undergraduate and graduate biomedical engineering students as well as medical students. Conveying these complex biomedical concepts to diverse engineering audiences in the classroom requires novel techniques to achieve true mastery of the material. Over the years, students have reported anecdotally that this material is difficult to fully comprehend. Furthermore, student performance on exam questions regarding capillary filtration does not correlate with overall student exam performance. These concerns led us to strive to improve instruction of this material. Therefore, a module that presents capillary filtration in the context of glomerular filtration has been developed and incorporated into the curriculum of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) renal pathophysiology course. Module design is based on the learning and teaching principles outlined in How People Learn1. The module replaces the traditional instruction of capillary filtration, which consisted of a lecture, paper based problem set and assigned textbook reading with two new interactive online exercises that present content and provide real time formative assessment to students, separated by an in-class lecture. A novel java based simulation of glomerular filtration was developed to permit manipulation of independent variables

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