Why do we teach and learn physiology the way we do? (Germany) Stefan Silbernagl Physiologisches Institut, Universit„t Wrzburg, D-97070 Wrzburg, Germany
APStracts 5:0011S, 1998.
ABSTRACT
When I had been asked the title question, I wrote a letter to some colleagues in order to base my answer on a broader viewpoint than my own˙2E One reply came from Wolfgang Trautwein* who closed his long letter with a short personal answer: Because I was curious and had always great fun with it and because I am convinced that physiology plays a central role in the education of medical doctors"˙2E That s exactly what I and others [1] think, too, but the editors also asked for a scholarly analysis˙2E Let me try to meet their expectations˙2E 

Received 31 March 1998; accepted in final form 31 March 1998.
APS Manuscript Number S24-8.
Article publication pending Advances in Physiology Education.
ISSN 1080-4757 Copyright 1998 The American Physiological Society.
Published in APStracts on 24 April 1998