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Using IP Videoconferencing Technology to Teach Gross Anatomy Lectures in Medical Curricula
Author(s) -
Bacro Thierry R,
Wells James R
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fasebj.20.5.a848-a
Subject(s) - gross anatomy , presentation (obstetrics) , curriculum , medical education , context (archaeology) , medicine , the internet , psychology , radiology , anatomy , computer science , pedagogy , geography , archaeology , world wide web
The State of South Carolina has two medical schools that are 120 miles apart, the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) in Charleston, SC, and the University of South Carolina School of Medicine (USC‐SOM) in Columbia, SC. Historically, these two universities have successfully collaborated in terms of research and clinical activities. In the last two years, faculty members at the two medical schools started collaborating in terms of the teaching of the gross anatomy courses. With both courses relying on traditional lectures and dissection laboratory methods to teach gross anatomy, the respective faculty at each institution started working together to develop a common web‐based pool of anatomical teaching tools, including anatomical dissection aids and other web‐based resources created for clinical and radiology integration. In the last year, faculty started using IP videoconferencing technology over the Internet to teach gross anatomy lectures to the other institution, i.e., a faculty physically located at MUSC taught a gross anatomy lecture to the first year medical students sitting in a lecture hall in Columbia and vice‐versa. During this presentation, an overview of the technology used will be presented and the feedback from faculty and current context of the gross anatomy faculty shortage nationwide and recommendations will be made regarding further use of this technology for teaching in medical curricula.