Kevin Patton

Meet Anthony’s Textbook of Anatomy & Physiology—the high-school member of the Patton A&P family If you teach a two-semester high-school anat...

How we reworked questions in Anatomy & Physiology to ask students to do more with what they know Name the three. List the four. True or fals...

What’s new—and what has always been different—about the Anatomy & Physiology Laboratory Manual and E-Labs A&P laboratory manuals can look p...

Why we keep rethinking human variation, representation, and the language of A&P What does a normal human body look like? Uh-oh. That questi...

How chapter outlines and summaries help A&P students build a conceptual framework Learning anatomy and physiology isn't simply a matter of c...

Why this body-wide story keeps growing in Anatomy & Physiology Fascia is having a moment. Actually, it's been having a pretty long moment....

Keep them? Dump them? Or learn to live in the messy middle? Way back in 2018, I discussed various issues with using eponyms—terms derived fr...

How we rebuilt the terminology tools in Anatomy & Physiology , 12th Edition. An A&P course is partly a language course. Okay, it's a huge ...

Rethinking how we tell one of the trickiest stories in reproductive A&P. In my previous post, Why We Flipped the Reproductive Story , I exp...

Rethinking the traditional male-first organization of A&P. In my earlier post,  The A&P Textbook You May Have Overlooked , I mentioned that ...

Why this essential story shouldn’t be left entirely to other biology courses. In my previous post, The Human Microbiome Was There All Along,...

How decades of scattered coverage became a new chapter in Anatomy & Physiology . As I mentioned in my previous post, b  the new 12th Editio...

A new edition of my popular two-semester A&P textbook is coming—and I’d like to show you what makes it different. Who knows? Perhaps it’ll b...

Brains That Train, Genes That Surprise, and the Trouble with BMI

What this week’s science reveals about human structure, function, and learning

Roundup of items for anatomy & physiology faculty

Updates in science & education you can use. From synapse function to face transplants to recharging T cells there's something of interest to all A&P faculty.

Special Issue of The A&P Professor Science & Education Updates

The A&P Professor Science & Education Updates

Steve Sullivan joins me for a lively conversation about podcasting, tutor videos, and digital A&P teaching. We explore how he humanizes online learning, why students crave multiple approaches, and what he's learned after 23 years of teaching. From…