《生理学教育进展》致力于促进生理学的教与学，促进生理学作为教学专业的发展。它出版经过同行评审的关于教学新策略的描述，教育研究报告，对当前教育实践的批判性评论，关于生理学教育的论文，以及组织以问题为中心的学习生理学内容的文章。专栏提供教科书和计算机软件的评论，生理学教师感兴趣的会议通知和报告，以及其他期刊相关文章的摘要。
Advances in Physiology Education is dedicated to the improvement of teaching and learning physiology and to the advancement of physiology as a teaching profession. It publishes peer-reviewed descriptions of new strategies for teaching, reports of education research, critical reviews of current educational practice, essays on physiology education, and articles that organize the content of physiology for problem-centered learning. Columns provide reviews of textbooks and computer software, notices and reports of meetings of interest to physiology teachers, and abstracts of relevant articles from other journals.