Electrophysiology course with quantitative method

An interdisciplinary course "Quantitative Electrophysiology" at the graduate level has been developed and implemented for biomedical engineering students with electrophysiological training and medical students with mathematical and computer programming training. The contemporary electrophysiology curricula generally consist of a significant amount of facts and limited experiments. In this course, the intricacies of physiological systems were integrated with the traditional engineering and computer training. The topic are covered in our course in cell level, ranging from such elementary topics as diffusion and charge separation to the more dynamic actions of the second-messenger cascade in synaptic transmission. In every part of the topics, the lecture began with experiment facts in ordinary electrophysiology textbook, physical modeling, mathematical description, and ended with computer simulation. This course has proven to be an effective way to incorporate electrical circuits, computer training, mathematical modeling, with neuroscience. The students were more involved in participating in the activity of teaching and learning.