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Accessing gain and knowledge retained in cross‐sectional anatomy (535.11)
Author(s) -
Ribeiro João,
Akamatsu Flávia,
Hojaij Flávio,
Andrade Mauro,
Jácomo Alfredo
Publication year - 2014
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.28.1_supplement.535.11
Subject(s) - psychological intervention , human anatomy , psychology , anatomy , medical education , medicine , nursing
Broad knowledge of cross‐sectional anatomy is essential for medicine students. This study aims to measure the gain of knowledge concerning sectional anatomy in a group of students who had no prior contact with such a concept. We asked 4th semester medicine school students to voluntarily identify 20 anatomical structures in plastinated slices, projected on a screen, and given 30s for each structure. After this first trial, students attended weekly classes for 2 months in the Discipline of Structural Human Topography in University of São Paulo, alternating lectures and laboratory activities focused on the upper limb, inferior limb and back. Following this, they underwent a formal evaluation and started learning new contents for further 4 weeks, when a new trial, identical to the first one, was held. 70 students answered questions in the first trial and 52 in the second one. First trial´s average score and standard deviation were 5.67 (±2.38), while second trial´s were 13.02(±3.24). Concerning structures of the forearm, in the first trial, students reached only 4.8% right answers, against 60.9% afterwards. Corcerning foot structures, results were 36.1% and 52.4%. A relevant enhance in the hability of correctly identifying anatomical structures in plastinated can be obtained in short educational interventions, combining lectures and laboratory activities.