Early Clinical Exposure In Anatomy
Early Clinical Exposure In Anatomy
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.70284/njirm.v8i5.1306Keywords:
Basic sciences, Clinical anatomy, Clinical exposure, Vertical integrationAbstract
Background and objectives: Vertical and Horizontal integration of Medical Sciences will help the student to understand the relevance of basic medical subjects with the clinical subjects. This would help the future medical professionals to rationalize the diagnosis and management of diseases. Hence, the present study has been done to provide evidence on the effect of video presentations of common clinical cases during the anatomy classes in terms of comprehension and correlation. Methods: The project was done at M.S.Ramaiah Medical College, Bangalore. A comparative cross over study was done. 90 students who volunteered for the project were divided into 2 batches. One batch was shown upper limb videos and the other batch was shown lower limb videos. A test of multiple choice questions and short answer questions, which included equal number of questions from upper limb and lower limb, was given to all 90 students. Feedback was taken from the students by a questionnaire based on a 5 point likert scale. Results and interpretation: The difference in the scores (median) between the study and the control group for lower limb presentations was significant (p-0.04). The upper limb mean scores of study and control group did not show much difference (p-0.285). Process evaluation questionnaire results revealed appreciation of the intervention. The students have expressed that the intervention improved their comprehension of the subject (3.93). It also has helped the students in retaining the memory (4.55) of the learnt topics because of a visual impact and correlation of anatomical knowledge with clinical scenarios. Conclusion: The video demonstration of common clinical cases as an adjuvant to didactic lectures has made a positive impact in the form of increase in knowledge due to better comprehension and correlation. [Chowdapurkar S NJIRM 2017; 8(5):53-56]
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