McGraw-Hill Education Europe

Description

Designed for the one-semester anatomy and physiology course, Hole's Essentials of Human Anatomy and Physiology assumes no prior science knowledge and supports core topics with clinical applications, making difficult concepts relevant to students pursuing careers in the allied health field. The unparalleled teaching system is highly effective in providing students with a solid understanding of the important concepts in anatomy and physiology.

Key Features

An Outcomes and Assessments format has been incorporated throughout the text. The chapter starts with a list of outcomes for instructors and students. Outcomes and then directly tied to assessments found at the end of the chapter.

A new section called "Foundations for Success" has been added to the beginning of the text. This section was specifically designed to help students LEARN how to study at the collegiate level and efficiently use the tools available to them.

McGraw-Hill?s ARIS for "Hole's Essentials of Human Anatomy & Physiology" is a complete electronic homework and course management system, designed for greater ease of use than any other system available. Free on adoption of "Hole's Essentials of Human Anatomy & Physiology", instructors can create and share course materials and assignments with colleagues with a few clicks of the mouse. Instructors can edit questions and algorithms [if applicable], import their own content, and create announcements and due dates for assignments. ARIS has automatic grading and reporting of easy-to-assign algorithmically generated [if applicable] homework, quizzing, and testing. Once a student is registered in the course, all student activity within McGraw-Hill?s ARIS is automatically recorded and available to the instructor through a fully integrated grade book that can be downloaded to Excel.

Anatomy and Physiology Revealed (APR)! This multimedia tool is designed to help students learn and review using a virtual human cadaver! Detailed cadaver photos layered upon one another provide an interactive dissection experience! Anatomy & Physiology Revealed includes 4 major areas: dissections, animations, imaging, anatomy terms and an incredible self testing program. All sections combine to make study time efficient and lectures unforgettable.

APR Correlation Guide to assist instructors by giving them information specific to this text.

Key Term Pronunciation Keys within the text. The key terms are boldfaced, defined within the chapter, and followed again by pronunciations when the term is first introduced in the text.

Do your students struggle with all the new terminology in this course? Would it be helpful to have a pedagogical tool in the text to assist them with mastery of key terms?

Helps students master the language of A&P.

Clinical Connections are integrated at the end of several chapters to "pull the concepts together." The short vignettes help students make a vital real-life connection to the chapter material.

Helps bring concept to life with "real life" examples.

Do you like to integrate clinical examples in your teaching? Does it help students to learn about real life situations they may encounter in their future careers?

"Check Your Recall" Review Questions: This edition offers review questions at the end of each major section in the chapter so students can check their understanding of the material just covered.

Offers additional review and practice opportunities closer to where they belong in the text.

"Facts of Life" tidbits have been sprinkled throughout the text to provide students with interesting factoids related to the study of anatomy & physiology. These briefs are fun bits of A&P information designed to add a touch of wonder to chapter topics and concepts.

Do your students sometimes find it hard to maintain interest when reading the textbook? Would it be helpful to offer them interesting tidbits to help them apply and think about what they've read?

Adds flavor to the narrative with brief interesting tidbits that add interest to the reading.

The art program ensures color and style consistency throughout the text. Benefit : The new art provides a more modern, realistic look to this already best-selling book at its level.

Are your students visual learners? Is a high quality art program important?

The new art provides a more modern, realistic look to this already best-selling book at its level.

Chapter Opening Vignettes immediately reveal the relevance of the material covered in the upcoming chapter. Vividly applying chapter principles, the vignettes may be familiar from recent news reports, others introduce new individuals, and still others may suggest possible careers. Several new chapter-opening vignettes can be found in this edition.

Add interest for students.

Review Exercises & Critical Thinking Questions: The end-of-chapter review exercises have been updated to help students check their understanding of the main ideas in the chapter. Critical thinking questions encourage students to apply information to clinical situations.

Offers additional review material and clinical coverage.

eInstruction questions are available with this project and can be found on the text website. eInstruction is a wireless student response system that allows for the ultimate in classroom participation, giving you immediate feedback from every student.