title: What is the American Physiological Society's ITL and who are the members of PECOP?
abstract: The American Physiological Society Teaching Section has developed a biennial Institute on Teaching and Learning (ITL) through the APS Conference Program. The first ITL was held in June 2014, and the second ITL will be in June 2016. A Physiology Education Community of Practice was created to help connect the institute participants and other physiology educators to share evidence-based teaching in physiology at all education levels and ideas for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and Discipline-Based Education Research in physiology. This editorial describes the origins and outcomes of the ITL and the advantages of joining the Physiology Education Community of Practice.
authors.affiliation: Organizer of the 2014 and 2016 Institute on Teaching and Learning, Division of Basic Biomedical Sciences, Sanford School of Medicine, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota; and Barb.Goodman@usd.edu.
authors.forename: Barbara E
authors.initials: BE
authors.lastname: Goodman
authors.affiliation: American Physiological Society, Bethesda, Maryland.
authors.forename: Marsha Lakes
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8782-6205
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Matyas
mesh_terms: D003226:Congresses as Topic; D003479:Curriculum; D006801:Humans; D008281:Maine; D010827:Physiology / Q000193:education*; D012955:Societies, Medical; D014481:United States
keywords: Discipline-Based Education Research; Institute on Teaching and Learning; Physiology Education Community of Practice; Scholarship of Teaching and Learning