Description
For this outreach video project, your group will choose a relative, acquaintance or group that needs help understanding/interpreting medical or veterinary advice. Your group’s job will be to become expert on the topic by finding and reading primary literature (you should not simply be revising materials already available on the web), and then you will use your physiological expertise to create a plain-language video to assist in the understanding of the medical/veterinary issue. The project must focus on the physiological mechanisms, not simply symptoms or clinical aspects. This project is broken into three parts: project ideas, project draft, and final project.
For this project ideas assignment, you should provide two-three ideas. For each potential idea:
Describe your target audience and why this physiological information will be useful.
Include an outline of how you will present the information.
List at least five relevant sources from the primary, reviewed scientific literature and one useful website (i.e. at least six citations per idea). See Module 0.5 for help on searching the literature. When listing your citations, please use Outreach project citation rules in Module 0.5 as your guide. Note that our citations rules call for both in-text citations and a list of citations (Bibliography/References section) at the end of the document. Here is an ASU library link to basics for APA style citationsLinks to an external site. (Don’t view the entire tutorial. Just stick to basic steps 1 and 2!).
Your TA will provide you with feedback to help you choose the best physiological topic.
See two example graded outlines here. Note that these only show one idea, but you are required to provide at least two.
Here are just a few of many possible ideas for topics:
The physiology of peanut allergies.
The physiology of epilepsy in dogs.
The physiology of type II diabetes.
Understanding the physiological effects of high protein diets.
The physiology of altitude sickness.
The physiological mechanisms of an antidepressant drug.
You should choose a topic of interest to you, for which you can find primary literature on the physiological mechanisms involved. If your TA feels that the material is not suitable (not sufficiently physiological, or not enough primary literature is available), they will ask you to resubmit your outline on a different topic (for a regrade).