One presumes that MD's, DC's, etc. must have taken gross anatomy. At SUNY Syracuse the gross class that I took was a 9 credit hour medical gross behemoth. The one that the PT's took was a 6 credit hour course only because it focused more on neuromuscular and less on abdomino-thoracic contents. I would assume that successful completion of a graduate level gross anatomy course would be sufficient qualification for teaching an introductory A&P course. >>From a different angle, one may also presume that the attainment of a MS degree in biology would require at least SOME comparative anatomy/physiology. To my thinking an individual that has earned an MS in biology (or a closely related field) would again be qualified to teach an introductory A&P course. Dayton J. Ford, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Biological Sciences St. Louis College of Pharmacy 4588 Parkview Place St. Louis, MO 63110 dford@xxxxxxxxxx 314-446-8463 voice 314-446-8460 FAX -----Original Message----- From: HAPS-L-owner@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:HAPS-L-owner@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of martini@xxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 8:48 PM To: HAPS-L@xxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [HAPS-L] Accreditation update [The following will be sent to the HAPS membership; it is being posted to the listserve so that interested nonmembers assigned to the list will be aware of the details.] Greetings and Happy New Year to everyone. The situation with regard to the accreditation of A&P faculty in the southern region continues to be problematic. In a response from the school admininstration at one college, we were told: "Like [another college], we are credentialing medical doctors, osteopaths, and dentists who have 18 graduate semester hours in A&P that was completed in a university setting. Also like [same college], we are not at this time credentialing chiropractors, veterinarians, podiatrists, or physical therapists. We are also using individuals with a master's degree in biology that includes a minimum of six graduate semester hours in anatomy or physiology." This policy resulted in the elimination of 2/3 of the part-time faculty teaching A&P, with a concommitant reduction in the niumber of A&P sections taught. The idea that a veterinarian or board-certified physical therapist, chiropractor, or podiatrist has inadequate training - as defined as 6 graduate credit hours in anatomy or physiology - to teach intro level A&P illogical and indefensible. We have written to SACS once again, with a strongly worded protest over the unreasonable and inappropriate criteria being applied. One of our major concerns is that the rulings, and the criteria applied, are delivered verbally to college administrators and the decisions and justifications and criteria are never presented in writing. This violates all sorts of precedents established for accountability and transparency. I will continue to keep you informed as to further developments. Meanwhile, one of the foundations of our argument is the data from the HAPS credentials survey. We now have data for courses teaching approximately 35,000 students per year, 8-10% of the estimated US total. Based on our sampling, the disqualification of professional degrees other than those noted above would result in the immediate loss of ~8% of full-time faculty and ~12% of part-time faculty. The criteria being applied for course background would have a much greater pruning effect; at one school, none of the MS degree holders teaching the course "made the grade," yet MS degree holders represent ~50% of the part-time faculty surveyed. I am writing to you to ask that you do the following: 1. Help us expand our dataset. Log onto the website and fill in a report for your institution if you have not already done so. The link is http://www.hapsweb.org/displayemailforms.cfm?emailformnbr=43589 If your number of faculty exceeds the number of allocated spaces (even on the expanded form) just fill out the survey twice. Since I am manually extracting the information, I will simply combine the numbers. 2. Monitor the accreditation situation in your region closely for sudden shifts in policy and advise us immediately if problems arise. 3. Let me know if you have any contacts in the media who might be interested in a story about the mechanics of the accreditation process and how one person can disrupt tertiary education in a key discipline across a significant part of the country. 4. Contact your Regional Director or email me directly with other questions, comments, or suggestions. With best wishes and thanks for your continued interest in this topic, I remain, Sincerely, Ric Martini President, HAPS ========================================== To manage subscription,send email from the subscription address to imailsrv@xxxxxxxxxxx and in MESSAGE (1) To unsubscribe from HAPS-L, put : unsubscribe HAPS-L, (2)To subscribe from a different address, put : subscribe HAPS-L your_full_name =========================================
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