From proposal to poster: Course-based undergraduate research experience in a physiology laboratory course

Abstract

Rennhack JP, VanRyn VS, Poteracki JM, Wehrwein EA. From proposal to poster: course-based undergraduate research experience in a physiology laboratory course. Adv Physiol Educ 44: 459-463, 2020; doi:10.1152/advan.00011.2020.-The laboratory course is an excellent venue to apply content, practice inquiry, improve critical thinking, practice key clinical skills, and work with data. The use of inquiry-based course projects allows for students to propose open ended questions, form a hypothesis, design an experiment, collect data, analyze data, draw conclusion, and present their findings. This comprehensive experience is ideal for a capstone (senior level) laboratory course that is the culmination of 4 yr of study in the degree. At Michigan State University, the capstone laboratory has incorporated a formal course-based research experience in human physiology. The rationale and logistics for running such an experience are described in this paper.