{"id":976,"date":"2018-12-14T09:58:17","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T09:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/?p=976"},"modified":"2018-12-14T09:58:17","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T09:58:17","slug":"physiology-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/2018\/12\/14\/physiology-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Physiology Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/files\/2018\/12\/Physiology-Friday.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-977\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/files\/2018\/12\/Physiology-Friday.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"583\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/files\/2018\/12\/Physiology-Friday.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/files\/2018\/12\/Physiology-Friday-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/files\/2018\/12\/Physiology-Friday-768x373.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/files\/2018\/12\/Physiology-Friday-1024x497.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/files\/2018\/12\/Physiology-Friday-500x243.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a>As part of the annual celebration of Physiology Friday, Dr\u2019s Alison Howard and Mich\u00e9le Sweeney introduced an educational opportunity for third year BSc Physiological Sciences students to obtain experience in outreach and engagement activities.\u00a0 Students attended a bespoke training session covering aspects of health and safety, information and advice on explaining some of the physiology research that takes place in the University, and guidance on discussing use of animals in research.<\/p>\n<p>Over 90% of our students volunteered to be involved for at least two hours on the day.\u00a0 Five students visited Cardinal Hume School, Gateshead, running two interactive sessions on cardiovascular physiology and a careers information session.\u00a0 In the Great North Museum: Hancock, students used anatomical models and physiological recording equipment to interact with members of the public, of all ages, and visiting primary school parties.\u00a0 At the stand in the medical school foyer, anatomical models and student produced posters describing their research experiences attracted a more knowledgeable audience of staff and students from across the Faculty degree programmes.\u00a0 This experience had a positive impact on all student volunteers, who reported finding it both enjoyable and confidence boosting, and engendered a greater feeling of affinity with their degree course.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the annual celebration of Physiology Friday, Dr\u2019s Alison Howard and Mich\u00e9le Sweeney introduced an educational opportunity for third year BSc Physiological Sciences students to obtain experience in outreach and engagement activities.\u00a0 Students attended a bespoke training session &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/2018\/12\/14\/physiology-friday\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5896,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5896"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":978,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions\/978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}