Virtual Cardiology Lab

Looking for a supplemental hands-on activity with cardiology in your course?

Try the FREE online interactive Cardiology Virtual Lab from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

It covers these concepts:

• Symptoms of a selection of heart diseases, to serve as examples of what kinds of things can go wrong with the heart. 
• How are symptoms detected and why?
• Tools and techniques used for diagnosis. 
• What can the different techniques detect and how do they work?
• Principles of pedigree analysis.

What can we use from this in teaching undergraduate A&P?

• Link to this virtual lab activity from your online syllabus, course web page, or LMS (or in an email  or tweet to students)
• If you want to give course points for the lab, consider an online quiz or lab report submitted through your learning management system (LMS) or emailed to you.
• Gives students a "real life" clinical lab application for the concepts they are learning in A&P.
• Provides a cardiology lab option for online/hybrid courses or wet labs that don't have funding for cardiology experiments.
• Helps integrate principles of genetics with cardiology, so it can be used in your genetics unit.

Want to know more?

Cardiology Virtual Lab

• BioInteractive. Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Accessed 16 Sep 2014.
• This virtual lab will familiarize you with heritable diseases of the heart. Learn about the diagnostic tools used to examine and diagnose patients.
• my-ap.us/1qKWiK7

BioInteractive Virtual Labs

• BioInteractive. Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Accessed 16 Sep 2014.
• List of all the FREE virtual labs offered by HHMI's BioInteractive project.
• my-ap.us/1wAX92q

Cardiovascular Topics

• Kevin Patton. The A&P Professor. Various dates.
• List of previous blog posts on cardiovascular topics
• my-ap.us/1uEGngu