PSIO 201: Meet the Human Body
This course starts your journey through human anatomy and physiology, covering everything from cells and tissues to muscles and the nervous system.
What is PSIO 201?
This organ acts as the pump that keeps blood moving through the cardiovascular system.
What is the heart?
Medicine isn't the only option! Dentistry, physical therapy, physician assistant programs, pharmacy, optometry, and many others are possible paths after studying this science of how the body works.
What is physiology?
Three letters, one group of Honors Physiology Wildcats: PHA stands for this.
What is the Physiology Honors Academy?
The University of Arizona was founded in this year—27 years before Arizona even became a state.
What is 1885?
In anatomical position, this directional term means closer to the head.
What is superior?
These tiny air sacs are the major site of gas exchange between the lungs and blood.
What are alveoli?
Arizona’s Physiology & Medical Sciences program has been connecting science, medicine, and health since this decade.
What are the 1990s?
You're a freshman thinking, “I want to go to medical school…but I have absolutely no idea where to start.” PHA can connect you with these students who have already been navigating the Physiology Honors experience.
Who are PHA student advisors/peer mentors?
The university's first graduating class was incredibly exclusive: only this many students received degrees in 1895.
What is 3?
On a practical, you might be shown a microscope slide and asked to identify one of the four basic tissue types. This tissue specializes in contraction.
What is muscle tissue?
You can survive with only one of these organs, which normally filter your blood and help control fluid, electrolytes, and blood pressure.
What are the kidneys?
Before Physiology majors can move into 300- and 400-level PSIO coursework, they must complete both PSIO 201 and 202 with at least this grade.
What is a C?
Want research? Graduate school advice? Healthcare career information? Someone to ask about Honors? PHA events are designed to help students build these two things—not just add another line to a résumé.
What are knowledge and connections?
Before Wilbur Wildcat, Arizona's first mascot was actually a live bobcat with this name.
Who was Rufus Arizona?
The functional connection where one neuron communicates with another neuron, muscle cell, or gland cell is called this.
What is a synapse?
Your heart doesn't need your brain to tell it to beat every single time. This specialized structure normally starts each heartbeat and is known as the heart's natural pacemaker.
What is the SA node?
The department currently lists itself at this position in the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research ranking for NIH funding in physiology.
What is #19?
You don't have to wait until senior year to start building your future. PHA helps connect students with opportunities in research, healthcare and graduate programs, education, careers, and this all-important professional activity.
What is networking?
Hidden beneath Arizona's football stadium is a laboratory that creates enormous 8.4-meter versions of these objects for some of the world's most advanced telescopes.
What are telescope mirrors?
A patient can flex their elbow normally but cannot extend it. Thinking like a PSIO 201 student, the problem would most directly involve this opposing relationship between muscle groups.
What are agonist and antagonist muscles?
You're standing up quickly and suddenly feel lightheaded. Within seconds, your body changes heart rate and blood-vessel tone to help restore blood pressure. This rapid cardiovascular reflex is named for its pressure-sensing receptors.
What is the baroreceptor reflex?
Research, internships, mentorship/preceptorship, and advanced lecture courses are all examples of ways PSIO students can do this to their undergraduate education rather than simply attending required classes.
What is customize their degree / gain hands-on experience?
Beyond holding events, PHA has this larger goal for Honors Physiology students: helping them successfully progress through and ultimately do this.
What is graduate from/complete the Physiology Honors Program?
Long before humans walked on it, University of Arizona researchers helped create maps of this destination used during the Apollo era.
What is the Moon?