Undergraduates often perceive neuroscience to be a challenging discipline. As the scope of neuroscience continues to expand, it is important to provide undergraduates with sufficient opportunities to develop their knowledge and skills with the aim of encouraging the future generation of basic and clinical neuroscientists. Through our experience of developing the National Undergraduate Neuroanatomy Competition (NUNC), we have accrued an extensive volume of performance data and subjective insight into the delivery of undergraduate neuroanatomy education, which has the potential to inform how to better engage students within this field. More broadly, our group has implemented a technology enhanced learning platform alongside a peer-assisted teaching program. These achieve the dual purpose of compensating for the reduction in dedicated neuroanatomy teaching hours and encouraging undergraduates to develop an interest in the neurosciences. Here, we consider how improving the learning experience at an undergraduate level encourages further engagement in the neurosciences and the importance of this within the wider neuroscience community.

大学生通常认为神经科学是一门具有挑战性的学科。随着神经科学领域的不断扩大，为大学生提供足够的机会发展其知识和技能，以鼓励下一代基础和临床神经科学家为目标，这一点很重要。通过发展全国大学生神经解剖学竞赛（NUNC）的经验，我们积累了广泛的绩效数据，并对提供大学生神经解剖学教育的主观见解，有可能为如何更好地吸引该领域的学生提供参考。更广泛地说，我们的团队已实施了一个技术增强的学习平台以及一个同伴协助的教学计划。这些实现了补偿专用神经解剖学教学时间减少和鼓励大学生对神经科学产生兴趣的双重目的。在这里，我们考虑如何提高本科生的学习体验，从而鼓励人们进一步参与神经科学，以及在更广泛的神经科学社区中进行这种学习的重要性。