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David Kushner is a professor of Biology at Dickinson College.

Kushner, David B., and Andrew Pekosz. Virology in the Classroom: Current Approaches and Challenges to Undergraduate- and Graduate-Level Virology Education. Annual Review of Virology 8, no. 1 (2021): 537-558. https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/citedby/10.1146/annurev-virology-091919-080047

The pervasive effects of the current coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic are but one reason for educators to refocus their efforts on virology teaching. Additionally, it is critical to understand how viruses function and to elucidate the relationship between virus and host. An understanding of current virology education may improve pedagogical approaches for educating our students and trainees. Faculty who teach undergraduate microbiology indicate that approximately 10% of the course content features viruses; stand-alone virology courses are infrequently offered to undergraduates. Fortunately, virology taught to undergraduates includes foundational material; several approaches for delivery of lecture- and lab-based content exist. At the graduate education level, there is growing appreciation that an emphasis on logic, reasoning, inference, and statistics must be reintroduced into the curriculum to create a generation of scientists who have a greater capacity for creativity and innovation. Educators also need to remove barriers to student success, at all levels of education.

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