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THE CLAUDE BERNARD DISTINGUISHED LECTURE: EVOLUTION OF AN
EDUCATOR: LESSONS LEARNED AND CHALLENGES AHEAD. Harold Modell.
Physiology Educational Research Consortium, Seattle, Washington 98115. [Abstract
courtesy of Advances
in Physiology Education]
In selecting a Claude Bernard Distinguished Lecturer, the Teaching Section
looks for an individual who has made major contributions to
physiology education. Dr. Harold Modell has certainly earned this
honor. Harold has an undergraduate degree from the University of
Minnesota, a Masters in biomedical engineering from Iowa State,
and, continuing the southern migration, a Ph.D. from the
University of Mississippi Medical Center. After four years in
Buffalo, first as a postdoctoral fellow and then as an assistant professor,
Harold made the long trek to Seattle, WA, where he has been ever
since. Harold Modell’s contributions to physiology education
are many and varied. He was certainly one of the early developers
of teaching software aimed at helping students learn physiology.
His programs are widely used, but more importantly, he has been
instrumental in bringing others into the field of computer-based
education. The existence of the Teaching Section is in no small
measure the result of Harold’s efforts to persuade APS that
teaching was important to a great many of its members, and to the
Society. Similarly, this journal, Advances in Physiology
Education, came to life after a long campaign spearheaded by
Harold. As the journal’s founding editor, he set the stage for
the growing success that it is enjoying today. Finally, Harold is
an educational researcher of note whose every project is aimed at
helping the learner to learn. As a leading advocate of this
attitude, Harold has helped physiology teachers at all levels
adopt this approach to teaching.
Adv. Physiol. Educ., 28:88-94, 2004. |
