Teaching gross anatomy during the Covid-19 pandemic: Effects on medical students' gain of knowledge, confidence levels and pandemic-related concerns.

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Tytuł:: Teaching gross anatomy during the Covid-19 pandemic: Effects on medical students' gain of knowledge, confidence levels and pandemic-related concerns.
Autorzy:: Schulte H; Institute of Functional and Applied Anatomy, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Schmiedl A; Institute of Functional and Applied Anatomy, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Mühlfeld C; Institute of Functional and Applied Anatomy, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Knudsen L; Institute of Functional and Applied Anatomy, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany. Electronic address: .
Źródło:: Annals of anatomy = Anatomischer Anzeiger : official organ of the Anatomische Gesellschaft [Ann Anat] 2022 Oct; Vol. 244, pp. 151986. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Jul 29.
Typ publikacji:: Journal Article
Język:: English
Imprint Name(s):: Original Publication: Jena [Germany] ; New York : G. Fischer, c1992-
MeSH Terms:: Students, Medical*
Education, Medical, Undergraduate*/methods
COVID-19*
Anatomy*/education
Humans ; Pandemics ; Communicable Disease Control ; Cadaver ; Curriculum ; Teaching ; Educational Measurement
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Contributed Indexing:: Keywords: Active cadaver dissection; Confidence level; Covid-19; Head-neck region; Learning outcome
Entry Date(s):: Date Created: 20220801 Date Completed: 20221025 Latest Revision: 20221221
Update Code:: 20240105
PubMed Central ID:: PMC9334863
DOI:: 10.1016/j.aanat.2022.151986
PMID:: 35914632
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For medical students the dissection course is the preferred method to learn gross anatomy. However, the added value of active cadaver dissection on knowledge gain in multimodal curricula offering a diversity of e-learning resources is unknown. The Covid-19-related lockdown forced educators to replace the dissection course by e-learning resources. At the end of the summer term 2020 loosening of pandemic-related regulations allowed offering a compact, voluntary active dissection course of the head-neck region to first-year medical students at Hannover Medical School. A study was conducted comparing a dissection group (G1, n = 115) and a non-dissection group (G2, n = 23). Knowledge gain and confidence level were measured with a multiple-choice (MC-)test. The use of e-learning resources was recorded. A questionnaire measured motivation, interest and level of concern regarding Covid-19 and anatomy teaching. No differences between groups were found regarding motivation and interest in anatomy of the head-neck region. G2, however, had significantly higher concerns regarding the Covid-19 pandemic than G1. Neither before nor after the educational intervention, differences in the scores of the MC-test were found. However, after the course G1 answered more MC-questions with highest confidence level than G2 (6.7 ± 6.0 vs. 3.6 ± 4.6, p < 0.05) and demonstrated by trend an increased improvement in the scores of image-based questions (30.8 ± 18.2 % vs. 17.1 ± 14.8 %, p = 0.06). In general, frequent users of online quizzes, a part of the e-learning resources, scored significantly better in the knowledge test. Active dissection improves self-assurance to identify anatomical structures and should be re-implemented in multimodal, blended-learning-based anatomical curricula in the post-pandemic era.
Competing Interests: Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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