Teaching about the brain and reaching the community: Undergraduates in the Pipeline Neuroscience Program at the University of Pennsylvania

Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Edlow, Brian L ^a   Hamilton, Karen ^a   Hamilton, Roy H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Case based curriculum; Clinical neurology; Community educators; Community service; Mentoring; Neuroanatomy; Neuroscience; Service learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547501694     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15442896     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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