Part 2:Group work-team The breathing hearts

Ciornei Ana Ioana, Gina Sanda Maria

SERIA A, GRUPA 4, AN I, MG

Medical school is all about terminology, more exactly medical terms. Lots of them make us
think of the Latin and Greek eras. That it why us, the students, are quite scared sometimes of
approaching these words. For example Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
which is the full scientific name for a disease that causes inflammation in the lungs owing to the
inhalation of very fine silica dust. Many of us would wonder why on Earth would we need to
know that term it`s not like there are pacients with this disease everywhere! Therefore we
only learn them like a poem without any logic involved.
Our team has approached two different and quite important chapters from the book: The
respiratory system and the Cardiovascular system.
By reading and trying to understand what these systems consist of , we have realized that it is
not as simple as we thought, therefore it is not going to be easy to teach these medical terms to
others! We have encountered many difficult and different words but , after a group
brainstorming we have found ways to teach others what we have learned.
Flashcards. We thought to write on a side of the card a suffix/root/prefix and on the other side
the meaning of it . By telling the student to form the word, e.g. angioplasty, he will look after
angi/o(vessel) and plasty(surgical repair). To learn what the word means, students will look on
the other side of the page and thy to translate it, in this case surgical repair of a vessel.
Images. Visual memory is an asset in Medical School. Thats why, we thought that correlating
words with images would be a great way to remember terms! For example apnea= temporary
loss of breathing/sleeping disorder in which breathing stops repeatedly for more than
10 seconds, causing measurable blood deoxygenation.
By using this image, we teach what causes the disease
and what should be done to treat/prevent.
We have tried to make the learning experience as
interactive and fun as possible, therefore we have
found videos that associate difficult terms to easy to
remember phrases/words,also tried using flashcards
and other fun quizzes
http://quizlet.com/139697/flashcards
http://quizlet.com/1058061/flashcards



A couple of interesting games:
http://www.purposegames.com/game/human-respiratory-system-quiz
http://www.purposegames.com/game/cardiovascular-turley-game
http://www.anatomyarcade.com/games/gamesRespiratory.html
http://www.anatomyarcade.com/games/jigsaws/ThoraxJigsaw/thoraxJigsaw.html
http://www.anatomyarcade.com/games/gamesCirculatory.html

And some videos and animations:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyolSAmKqyw&list=PL06B9BF9E61464883
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRv5tNCMpyY#t=52
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YhhZISW54Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcZO7h-NROo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NywpugmKG2w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=442s9a_TEL8&list=PL96D1C2328EB9424E

To proove to each other that these methods actually work we have tried to project all
these videos and quizzes and challenge each other to get higher scores, and it worked!