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Are We Facing the End of Gross Anatomy Teaching as We Have Known It for Centuries?

The status of anatomy education in undergraduate medical education has dramatically changed over the course of the past century. From the most important and time-consuming component of the preclinical program, anatomy education has reduced in size and status, and yielded in curricular space to accom...

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Autores principales: Chang Chan, Ana Yoe-Cheng, Stapper, Coen P M, Bleys, Ronald L A W, van Leeuwen, Maarten, ten Cate, Olle
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Publicado: Dove 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9533781/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36212704
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/AMEP.S378149
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author Chang Chan, Ana Yoe-Cheng
Stapper, Coen P M
Bleys, Ronald L A W
van Leeuwen, Maarten
ten Cate, Olle
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Stapper, Coen P M
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description The status of anatomy education in undergraduate medical education has dramatically changed over the course of the past century. From the most important and time-consuming component of the preclinical program, anatomy education has reduced in size and status, and yielded in curricular space to accommodate other disciplines and topics. Meanwhile, radiology has become more prominent, as a means to visualize anatomy, not only in clinical care but also in education. For this perspective paper, the authors, all with backgrounds in anatomy, radiology and/or medical education, conducted structured conversations with several academic colleagues with similar backgrounds, reviewed pertinent literature and analyzed the causes of the historical decline of a knowledge domain of medical education, that nevertheless is widely considered essential for medical students and graduates. After this analysis, the authors propose four ways forward. These directions include systematic peer teaching and development of anatomy education as a scholarly domain, further vertical integration with postgraduate medical education, full integration with radiology education, and capitalizing on educational technology. Schools in several industrialized countries have made steps in these directions, which can be further strengthened. In less affluent countries, and in countries with curricula strongly determined by tradition, these steps are less easy to make. To respond to changes in global health and health care, combined with the inevitable technological progress, and international mobility, we believe all schools will move in these directions, slower or faster.
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spelling pubmed-95337812022-10-06 Are We Facing the End of Gross Anatomy Teaching as We Have Known It for Centuries? Chang Chan, Ana Yoe-Cheng Stapper, Coen P M Bleys, Ronald L A W van Leeuwen, Maarten ten Cate, Olle Adv Med Educ Pract Perspectives The status of anatomy education in undergraduate medical education has dramatically changed over the course of the past century. From the most important and time-consuming component of the preclinical program, anatomy education has reduced in size and status, and yielded in curricular space to accommodate other disciplines and topics. Meanwhile, radiology has become more prominent, as a means to visualize anatomy, not only in clinical care but also in education. For this perspective paper, the authors, all with backgrounds in anatomy, radiology and/or medical education, conducted structured conversations with several academic colleagues with similar backgrounds, reviewed pertinent literature and analyzed the causes of the historical decline of a knowledge domain of medical education, that nevertheless is widely considered essential for medical students and graduates. After this analysis, the authors propose four ways forward. These directions include systematic peer teaching and development of anatomy education as a scholarly domain, further vertical integration with postgraduate medical education, full integration with radiology education, and capitalizing on educational technology. Schools in several industrialized countries have made steps in these directions, which can be further strengthened. In less affluent countries, and in countries with curricula strongly determined by tradition, these steps are less easy to make. To respond to changes in global health and health care, combined with the inevitable technological progress, and international mobility, we believe all schools will move in these directions, slower or faster. Dove 2022-10-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9533781/ /pubmed/36212704 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/AMEP.S378149 Text en © 2022 Chang Chan et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/This work is published and licensed by Dove Medical Press Limited. The full terms of this license are available at https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php and incorporate the Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) ). By accessing the work you hereby accept the Terms. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed. For permission for commercial use of this work, please see paragraphs 4.2 and 5 of our Terms (https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php).
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Are We Facing the End of Gross Anatomy Teaching as We Have Known It for Centuries?
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title_short Are We Facing the End of Gross Anatomy Teaching as We Have Known It for Centuries?
title_sort are we facing the end of gross anatomy teaching as we have known it for centuries?
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