More often than not, medical students and other students of health sciences such as Dentistry, Nursing, Pharmacy, Laboratory technologists and Nutrition will cringe at the drudgery of the basic science courses and see little connection between fields such as physiology and clinical situations. Clinicians, however, often wish they knew more about the basic sciences, because it is through the science that we can begin to understand the complexities of the human body and thus have rational methods of diagnosis and treatment. The gulf between the basic sciences and the patient arena is wide.One way to bridge this gulf is with carefully constructed clinical cases that ask basic science-oriented questions. I have designed a collection of patient cases to teach physiology-related points. More importantly, the search for explanation of the underlying mechanisms related to the clinical setting should help in the understanding of the link between the basic science data and clinical...
