A prematriculation intervention to improve the adjustment of students to medical school.

Background And Purpose: The transition from a baccalaureate program to a medical curriculum can be a difficult period for some students. Our study asked whether providing students with review materials and a means of assessing their degree of preparedness prior to matriculation influenced actual and perceived performance in 1st-year basic science courses.

Methods: Didactic review materials in basic science subjects encountered in the 1st year were made available to prematriculants online.

Humanities in Gross Anatomy Project: a novel humanistic learning tool at Des Moines University.

Gross anatomy affords physical therapy students an opportunity to discover human morphology by intimately studying the dead. Moreover, it also exposes future physical therapists to the humanistic aspects of the profession. In 2007, anatomy faculty decided to socialize students to the humanities with a new course requirement: Humanities in Gross Anatomy Project (HuGA) Project.