title: An anatomist's comments on learning and teaching.
abstract: A Texas farm boy, who entered veterinary school in 1966 with the goal of becoming a "cow doctor" but instead has ended up teaching anatomy for more than 30 years, shares some of his personal philosophy and ideas about learning and teaching. The author claims no special expertise in teaching methodology, offers no "cutting-edge" techniques, and presents no particularly "novel" concepts on how to be a good teacher. He merely shares his personal, common-sense teaching philosophy, which is pretty much summarized in "Smallwood's 12 or More Axioms of Learning and Teaching". As a "parting shot", the author comments briefly on teaching anatomy using the problem-based learning approach.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, 4700 Hillsborough Street, Raleigh, NC 27606, USA. ed_smallwood@ncsu.edu
authors.forename: James E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Smallwood
mesh_terms: D000715:Anatomy / Q000193:education*; D000818:Animals; D004520:Education, Veterinary; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D018794:Problem-Based Learning; D013663:Teaching