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Plastination helps student performance in learning gross anatomy
Author(s) -
Akamatsu Flávia Emi,
Andrade Mauro,
Hojaij Flávio,
Jacomo Alfredo Luiz
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.606.16
Subject(s) - medicine , comprehension , test (biology) , medical physics , statistical analysis , anatomy , nuclear medicine , computer science , mathematics , statistics , biology , paleontology , programming language
Background Slice plastination is a useful tool to enhance comprehension and diagnostic skills in imaging methods as computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and ultrasound (US). Our department has systematically taught Clinical and Topographic Anatomy to graduate students for the last 20 years employing plastination slices combined with prosection specimens. Objectives To assess the impact of plastination slices in improving anatomical diagnostic skills in prepared fixed specimens. Methods We evaluated the correct interpretation of designated anatomical structures in two groups of students with similar knowledge of Anatomy and who had had no previous exposure to plastination techniques. Basal grades were obtained for all students and they were randomly divided in two groups regarding exposition to plastination slices. Grades were obtained at the end of the period and statistical analysis was carried out with SPSS 20.0 software (SPPS Inc). Quantitative data from the test were analyzed using descriptive statistics and the t‐student to compare the number of correct answers by questions before and after test and nonparametric Mann‐Whitney U test to compare the grade of students in pre and posttest. Results The students score average (20 questions) on pretest was 5.6 ± 4.9 and for posttest was 13 ± 5.9 (p<0.05). Conclusion Plastination is a useful method to enhance Anatomy learning for graduate students. This abstract is from the Experimental Biology 2019 Meeting. There is no full text article associated with this abstract published in The FASEB Journal .