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A Study of Anatomy Teachers' Perception and Acceptance of the Anatomage Table Technology and Digital Teaching Materials in the Training of Medical and Allied Health Students
Background: The Anatomage Table is a modern technology that is used to enhance the teaching of human anatomy and related basic medical sciences to medical and allied health students. Its use is gaining popularity. This study considered anatomy teachers' perception and acceptance of the Anatomag...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9807243/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36601205 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.32163 |
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author | Owolabi, Joshua Ola Ojiambo, Robert Seifu, Daniel Nishimwe, Arlene Masimbi, Ornella Okorie, Emmanuel Ineza, Darlene |
author_facet | Owolabi, Joshua Ola Ojiambo, Robert Seifu, Daniel Nishimwe, Arlene Masimbi, Ornella Okorie, Emmanuel Ineza, Darlene |
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description | Background: The Anatomage Table is a modern technology that is used to enhance the teaching of human anatomy and related basic medical sciences to medical and allied health students. Its use is gaining popularity. This study considered anatomy teachers' perception and acceptance of the Anatomage Table technology and digital teaching materials in the training of medical and allied health students in African countries. Materials and methods: Validated questionnaires were used. Altogether, 79 respondents fully participated in the study, with all African regions being represented as follows: Ghana, Nigeria (West Africa), Ethiopia Kenya Rwanda (East Africa), Namibia, South Africa, Zambia (Southern Africa), Egypt (North Africa), and Sudan (Central Africa). Responses were obtained from the electronic Google form, organized on Excel spreadsheets, and analyzed using the SPSS statistical software version 23.0 (IBM Corp, Armonk, NY). Results: In terms of proportion, 29.1% of respondents reported that they had some level of mastery in using the Anatomage Table; with 6.3% of all the participants reportedly having a high mastery of this technology, 12% and 6% reported that they had an average mastery and low mastery levels, respectively. Participants' rating of their level of agreement with whether the Anatomage Table is a useful EdTech showed that 54.4% of them strongly agreed while 27.8% just agreed. The majority considered the use of the Anatomage as a means of embracing the global culture of technology-in-medical sciences (87.3%). Conclusion: Most respondents would accept the technology as a complementary tool to support the existing traditional practices, especially cadaveric. |
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spelling | pubmed-98072432023-01-03 A Study of Anatomy Teachers' Perception and Acceptance of the Anatomage Table Technology and Digital Teaching Materials in the Training of Medical and Allied Health Students Owolabi, Joshua Ola Ojiambo, Robert Seifu, Daniel Nishimwe, Arlene Masimbi, Ornella Okorie, Emmanuel Ineza, Darlene Cureus Medical Education Background: The Anatomage Table is a modern technology that is used to enhance the teaching of human anatomy and related basic medical sciences to medical and allied health students. Its use is gaining popularity. This study considered anatomy teachers' perception and acceptance of the Anatomage Table technology and digital teaching materials in the training of medical and allied health students in African countries. Materials and methods: Validated questionnaires were used. Altogether, 79 respondents fully participated in the study, with all African regions being represented as follows: Ghana, Nigeria (West Africa), Ethiopia Kenya Rwanda (East Africa), Namibia, South Africa, Zambia (Southern Africa), Egypt (North Africa), and Sudan (Central Africa). Responses were obtained from the electronic Google form, organized on Excel spreadsheets, and analyzed using the SPSS statistical software version 23.0 (IBM Corp, Armonk, NY). Results: In terms of proportion, 29.1% of respondents reported that they had some level of mastery in using the Anatomage Table; with 6.3% of all the participants reportedly having a high mastery of this technology, 12% and 6% reported that they had an average mastery and low mastery levels, respectively. Participants' rating of their level of agreement with whether the Anatomage Table is a useful EdTech showed that 54.4% of them strongly agreed while 27.8% just agreed. The majority considered the use of the Anatomage as a means of embracing the global culture of technology-in-medical sciences (87.3%). Conclusion: Most respondents would accept the technology as a complementary tool to support the existing traditional practices, especially cadaveric. Cureus 2022-12-03 /pmc/articles/PMC9807243/ /pubmed/36601205 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.32163 Text en Copyright © 2022, Owolabi et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Medical Education Owolabi, Joshua Ola Ojiambo, Robert Seifu, Daniel Nishimwe, Arlene Masimbi, Ornella Okorie, Emmanuel Ineza, Darlene A Study of Anatomy Teachers' Perception and Acceptance of the Anatomage Table Technology and Digital Teaching Materials in the Training of Medical and Allied Health Students |
title | A Study of Anatomy Teachers' Perception and Acceptance of the Anatomage Table Technology and Digital Teaching Materials in the Training of Medical and Allied Health Students |
title_full | A Study of Anatomy Teachers' Perception and Acceptance of the Anatomage Table Technology and Digital Teaching Materials in the Training of Medical and Allied Health Students |
title_fullStr | A Study of Anatomy Teachers' Perception and Acceptance of the Anatomage Table Technology and Digital Teaching Materials in the Training of Medical and Allied Health Students |
title_full_unstemmed | A Study of Anatomy Teachers' Perception and Acceptance of the Anatomage Table Technology and Digital Teaching Materials in the Training of Medical and Allied Health Students |
title_short | A Study of Anatomy Teachers' Perception and Acceptance of the Anatomage Table Technology and Digital Teaching Materials in the Training of Medical and Allied Health Students |
title_sort | study of anatomy teachers' perception and acceptance of the anatomage table technology and digital teaching materials in the training of medical and allied health students |
topic | Medical Education |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9807243/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36601205 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.32163 |
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