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SiMoJi‐B: A New Sequential Tool in Anatomy
Author(s) -
Cevallos Manuel
Publication year - 2019
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.2019.33.1_supplement.444.34
Subject(s) - presentation (obstetrics) , dissection (medical) , graphics , anatomy , computer science , sequence (biology) , computer graphics (images) , medicine , biology , surgery , genetics
Skin, bones, joints, and muscles, the classical sequence in our textbooks for lectures and laboratory practice. In a past survey in class, 74% answered the coracobrachialis does arm flexion; however, only 7% was able to answer: Coracobrachialis allows to raise the hand for ask a question. Most of the time, we are attached to the sequence… skin, bones, joints, muscles; and many times, we are missing the “integration factor.” Different techniques are used in Anatomy Labs such as graphics, 3D models, digital 3D, board games, flashcards; all of them have a significant value in the learners and learning style. However, most of the time, let's do bones and features; then later, let's do muscles and functions; not a functional and visual link. However, when we are doing the donor dissection, we are cutting the skin, dissecting over muscles, to reach the bones and joints; a very natural, visual sequence. Then, can I deliver the same information but in a friendlier way? I am introducing a new tool, it is called SiMoJi‐B . It is a technique based on a visual layer dissection to explore, integrate and identify macro‐anatomical structures. This vivid sequential tool gives an integration between student movement, sequential graphics (skin to bones), and regional donor dissection. SiMoJi‐B (Skin, Muscle, Joint, Bones) uses a sequential questionnaire (table 1) helping the student to address the integration of those systems; matching representation of movement in the pictures and supported by the dissection. Graphics will be showed in the presentation. In a current survey in class, asking for which muscle allows raising the hand to ask? Using SiMoJi‐B technique was possible to increase from a 7% to 81%. This new tool in the undergraduate anatomy education can help students to integrate and visualize structures and application. This abstract is from the Experimental Biology 2019 Meeting. There is no full text article associated with this abstract published in The FASEB Journal .