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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA Difficult Pregnancy A Nurse Practitioner Looks for Answers
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Health Science & Medical Technology, Career & Technical Ed, Professional Development, Life SciencesThis case study, about a developmentally disabled, 30-weeks-pregnant 19-year-old, presents some of the patient management issues...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA Case of Diabetes Insipidus
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Human Anatomy & Physiology, Structure and Function in Living Things, Professional Development, Life SciencesAmanda Richards, a 20-year-old junior in college, is majoring in biology and hopes to be a pediatrician one day. For about a m...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhen Drug Sales and Science Collide
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Health Science & Medical Technology, Career & Technical Ed, Professional Development, Life SciencesWhen "Jeff," a fictionalized drug representative, is placed on the Vioxx account in 2001, he finds himself pulled between sales...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPharmacogenetics Using Genetics to Treat Disease
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, Career & Technical Ed, Technology, Professional Development and 5 additional..This case study investigates the applications of genetics to medicine by exploring one of the first examples of a pharmacogeneti...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA Case of Cerebrovascular Accident
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Human Anatomy & Physiology, Structure and Function in Living Things, Professional Development, Learning Theories, Life Sciences"Samuel Dexter" is 52 years old, overweight, and a heavy smoker. He wakes one morning with weakness on his right side. When he ...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDengue in the Landscape A Threat to Public Health
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Ecology & Ecosystems, Earth & Space Science, Professional Development, Personal and Community Health and 5 additional..This interrupted case engages students in issues contributing to the increase of dengue fever in Jamaica. The overall goal of th...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA Case of Pharyngitis
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Career & Technical Ed, Professional Development, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Health Science & Medical Technology and 2 additional..Seven-year-old Jason Hornbuckle has been complaining for the past 12 hours of pain when he swallows. He also has a headache a...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA Case of Iron Deficiency Anemia
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Career & Technical Ed, Professional Development, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Health Science & Medical Technology and 2 additional..Dolores Welborn, a 28-year-old attorney, is pregnant with her first child. Lately she has been tiring easily and is often shor...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkJosie An Interdisciplinary Case Study of Madness
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Psychology, History-Social Science, Professional Development, Life SciencesIn this interdisciplinary case, students meet Josie, the main character, who suffers from a variety of symptoms. Students must g...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTragic Choices: Autism, Measles, and the MMR Vaccine
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Health Science & Medical Technology, STEM Education, History-Social Science and 6 additional..This case explores the purported connection between vaccines in general, and the MMR vaccine specifically, and autism. Students ...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAndrea: The Death of a Diabetic
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Human Anatomy & Physiology, Structure and Function in Living Things, Professional Development, Life SciencesIn chronicling the life and death of a woman who developed diabetes as a teenager, this case study explores such basic science t...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Plan: Ethics and Physician Assisted Suicide
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, GraduateSubjects: Health Science & Medical Technology, Career & Technical Ed, Professional Development, Life SciencesThis case study on physician-assisted suicide is used in a medical ethics course. The case itself is a short article published i...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSaving Superman: Ethics and Stem Cell Research
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Life SciencesThis case explores the political and ethical issues associated with stem cell research. Students read the case describing Christ...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkKate-tastrophy A Case Study in Brain Death
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Psychology, History-Social Science, Professional Development, Learning Theories, Life SciencesIn this interrupted case, students examine the concept of unconsciousness and develop an understanding of how clinicians diagnos...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTo Tell the Truth Delivering Bad News to Patients
Grades: GraduateSubjects: Health Science & Medical Technology, Career & Technical Ed, Professional Development, Life SciencesThis case was developed to teach first-year medical students about medical ethics as they apply to patient communication. Studen...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSpirituality and Health Care A Request for Prayer
Grades: GraduateSubjects: Health Science & Medical Technology, Career & Technical Ed, Professional Development, Life SciencesIn this medical ethics case, a fourth-year medical student making hospital rounds with an attending physician and several reside...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSickle Cell Anemia
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Chemistry, Professional Development, Cells, Biochemistry and 2 additional..In this case study on sickle cell anemia, students are introduced to some of the key researchers responsible for determining the...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSplit My Brain A Case Study of Seizure Disorder and Brain Function
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Structure and Function in Living Things, History-Social Science and 3 additional..This case study involves a couple deciding whether or not their son should undergo brain surgery to treat a severe seizure disor...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkToo Many B Cells Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia and the Role of Flow Cytometry
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Science, Cells, Professional Development, Biochemistry, Life SciencesTaylor's doctor notices she has swollen lymph nodes and an elevated white blood cell count on her routine annual exam and asks h...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Haemophilus Vaccine A Victory for Immunologic Engineering
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Career & Technical Ed, Cells, Professional Development, Personal and Community Health and 3 additional..This case study focuses on a young mother whose child attends a day care center where there has been an outbreak of bacterial me...Views: 0Favorites: 0