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Answering Huxley: “now” students take a “then” exam

Abstract

Twenty-eight undergraduate students in a health sciences program volunteered for an exercise in the history of examinations. They had completed a second-year course in anatomy and physiology in which they studied modern texts and took standard contemporary exams. For this historical "experiment," students studied selected chapters from two 19th century physiology texts (by Foster M. A Textbook of Physiology, 1895; and Broussais FJV. A Treatise …

Authors

Rangachari PK

Journal

Advances in Physiology Education, Vol. 43, No. 3, pp. 397–400

Publisher

American Physiological Society

Publication Date

September 1, 2019

DOI

10.1152/advan.00079.2019

ISSN

1043-4046