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Anatomy Nights: An international public engagement event increases audience knowledge of brain anatomy
Anatomy Nights is an international public engagement event created to bring anatomy and anatomists back to public spaces with the goal of increasing the public’s understanding of their own anatomy by comparison with non-human tissues. The event consists of a 30-minute mini-lecture on the anatomy of...
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Public Library of Science
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9182231/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35679263 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0267550 |
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author | Sanders, Katherine A. Philp, Janet A. C. Jordan, Crispin Y. Cale, Andrew S. Cunningham, Claire L. Organ, Jason M. |
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description | Anatomy Nights is an international public engagement event created to bring anatomy and anatomists back to public spaces with the goal of increasing the public’s understanding of their own anatomy by comparison with non-human tissues. The event consists of a 30-minute mini-lecture on the anatomy of a specific anatomical organ followed by a dissection of animal tissues to demonstrate the same organ anatomy. Before and after the lecture and dissection, participants complete research surveys designed to assess prior knowledge and knowledge gained as a result of participation in the event, respectively. This study reports the results of Anatomy Nights brain events held at four different venues in the UK and USA in 2018 and 2019. Two general questions were asked of the data: 1) Do participant post-event test scores differ from pre-event scores; and 2) Are there differences in participant scores based on location, educational background, and career. We addressed these questions using a combination of generalized linear models (R’s glm function; R version 4.1.0 [R Core Team, 2014]) that assumed a binomial distribution and implemented a logit link function, as well as likelihood estimates to compare models. Survey data from 91 participants indicate that scores improve on post-event tests compared to pre-event tests, and these results hold irrespective of location, educational background, and career. In the pre-event tests, participants performed well on naming structures with an English name (frontal lobe and brainstem), and showed signs of improvement on other anatomical names in the post-test. Despite this improvement in knowledge, we found no evidence that participation in Anatomy Nights improved participants’ ability to apply this knowledge to neuroanatomical contexts (e.g., stroke). |
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spelling | pubmed-91822312022-06-10 Anatomy Nights: An international public engagement event increases audience knowledge of brain anatomy Sanders, Katherine A. Philp, Janet A. C. Jordan, Crispin Y. Cale, Andrew S. Cunningham, Claire L. Organ, Jason M. PLoS One Research Article Anatomy Nights is an international public engagement event created to bring anatomy and anatomists back to public spaces with the goal of increasing the public’s understanding of their own anatomy by comparison with non-human tissues. The event consists of a 30-minute mini-lecture on the anatomy of a specific anatomical organ followed by a dissection of animal tissues to demonstrate the same organ anatomy. Before and after the lecture and dissection, participants complete research surveys designed to assess prior knowledge and knowledge gained as a result of participation in the event, respectively. This study reports the results of Anatomy Nights brain events held at four different venues in the UK and USA in 2018 and 2019. Two general questions were asked of the data: 1) Do participant post-event test scores differ from pre-event scores; and 2) Are there differences in participant scores based on location, educational background, and career. We addressed these questions using a combination of generalized linear models (R’s glm function; R version 4.1.0 [R Core Team, 2014]) that assumed a binomial distribution and implemented a logit link function, as well as likelihood estimates to compare models. Survey data from 91 participants indicate that scores improve on post-event tests compared to pre-event tests, and these results hold irrespective of location, educational background, and career. In the pre-event tests, participants performed well on naming structures with an English name (frontal lobe and brainstem), and showed signs of improvement on other anatomical names in the post-test. Despite this improvement in knowledge, we found no evidence that participation in Anatomy Nights improved participants’ ability to apply this knowledge to neuroanatomical contexts (e.g., stroke). Public Library of Science 2022-06-09 /pmc/articles/PMC9182231/ /pubmed/35679263 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0267550 Text en © 2022 Sanders et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Sanders, Katherine A. Philp, Janet A. C. Jordan, Crispin Y. Cale, Andrew S. Cunningham, Claire L. Organ, Jason M. Anatomy Nights: An international public engagement event increases audience knowledge of brain anatomy |
title | Anatomy Nights: An international public engagement event increases audience knowledge of brain anatomy |
title_full | Anatomy Nights: An international public engagement event increases audience knowledge of brain anatomy |
title_fullStr | Anatomy Nights: An international public engagement event increases audience knowledge of brain anatomy |
title_full_unstemmed | Anatomy Nights: An international public engagement event increases audience knowledge of brain anatomy |
title_short | Anatomy Nights: An international public engagement event increases audience knowledge of brain anatomy |
title_sort | anatomy nights: an international public engagement event increases audience knowledge of brain anatomy |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9182231/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35679263 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0267550 |
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