The future of physiology education: Igniting curiosity and innovation through modern teaching methods

Abstract

Since the 19th century the importance of physiology as a natural science emerged. There has been a great importance of physiology in the health sector, and thereby the immense expansion of the subject of physiology in education. But in recent eras due to the emergence of multiple branches in the healthcare sector and some other factors, the scope of physiology is getting narrowing. Moreover, the present arena is now considered the age of translational research. But simply by ignoring the basic or fundamental research, there can not be the emergence of a new translational field or even the success of translational research and, thereby, the betterment of our society. This article focuses on challenges and new scopes of the physiologist at this crucial juncture so that there can be a generation of curiosity among the learners to explore the basic or fundamental concept of physiology where there is an immense role of recent developments of teaching-learning methodologies in physiology education and subsequently research.