Case Study: <em>Not</em> an Old Person’s Disease

Journal Article | November 2002

This article describes a case study done in sections. Students first read a scenario and then write down and discuss answers to questions provided by the professor. After discussion, they continue reading, learn a…

Case Study: A Question of Responsibility—Whose Asbestos Caused Her Lung Disease?

Journal Article | April 2010

This actual lawsuit, tried in 2006 in Madison County, Illinois, provided the inspiration for a case used in a Physical Geology course. The case is used to teach mineralogy as well as touch on the complexities of melding…

Evaluating a New Online Course in the Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases by Studying Student Learning Styles

Journal Article | December 2007

At RMIT University, students may now elect to study infectious diseases through a course called Outbreak—The Detection and Control of Infectious Disease. Outbreak was designed to simulate in an online class the…

Disease Ecology

Case Study | February 2023

A Devil of a Disease

Case Study | October 2012

The Case Study: What To Do About Mother—Investigating Fetal Tissue Research and the Effects of Parkinson's Disease

Journal Article | April 1999

This column provides original articles on innovations in case study teaching, assessment of the method, as well as case studies with teaching notes. This month’s issue is a real case dealing with one of the medical…

Disease Along the River

Case Study | February 2015

The Physiology of a Neurodegenerative Disease

Case Study | January 2009

Not an Old Person's Disease

Case Study | September 2002

The Face of a Rare Genetic Disease

Case Study | March 2021