The Effect and Applicability of Anatographic for Anatomy Education / 체질인류학회지

There are various methods for anatomy learning. Recently, there is infographics as a way to effectively transmit large amounts of data and complex information. In this way, medical students made anatomical data as ‘anatographic’. A total of 205 participants including 60 pre-medical students, 111 medical students, and 34 doctors participated in the study. We have shown an example of anatographic, and we surveyed its applicability and the satisfaction of each method. They use textbooks, Google, other searching sites, and applications for anatomy learning. The usefulness according to the 5-point scale was 3.75 for textbooks and 3.60 for Google, 2.53 for applications and 2.08 for searching sites, respectively. The utility of anatographic was 3.59, which was significantly higher than that of the application or other searching sites (p < 0.05). Anatographic is useful because of easy search for tags and questions, information share and learning from anywhere using your smartphone. On the other hand, there was the hassle of online access and the reliability of the data could be reduced for doctors to use. There was a problem that students used the smartphone outside of learning. Anatographic is the most beneficial system for the head, neck, and nerves, and it is easier to understand complex structures. Anatographic have shown potential as an educational source that can effectively transmit vast amounts of anatomical knowledge, and they will be useful for future anatomy education.

Active Learning through an Integrated Curriculum: Making Use of Human Anatomy Practice / 医学教育

<p>　Students always have many questions and problems during active participation. Here, we report an active learning course (AL) based on problems that medical students encountered in gross anatomy practice. This AL was implemented after the practice, consisting of a lecture, group discussions, resource hours, and presentation session to ensure exploratory learning. Based on a questionnaire survey, 75.1% of the students evaluated the AL as very valuable or valuable, indicating its usefulness. The AL not only complemented the anatomy course, but also directed the students toward other forms of basic and clinical learning. The results indicate that by making use of gross anatomy practice, the AL functions as a hub for horizontal and vertical integrations in medical education.</p>

Status of Cadaver Collection of Medical Colleges for Their Anatomy Education in Korea / 체질인류학회지

This study eximaned the status of cadaver collection of medical colleges in Korea for their anatomy education during the last thirty years. The total collected number of cadavers during the first decade (1971 ~1980) were 1, 182. The numbers increased year gradually and it showed 1, 771 during the second decade (1981 ~1990). Thereafter the collection rate dropped suddenly to 607 during the period of 1991 ~1996. Compare to the total number of medical colleges (from 14 to 41 schools) and medical students (from 1,300 to 3,300 students) during the examined period, the ratios of medical students joining to dissection per cadaver were getting worse until the donation of cadavers become popular after 1994. In 1995 ~1996, 83.2% of total collected cadavers in Korea were available from donation, while the donation rate in 1989 ~1990 was only 7.5%. We have been tried to collect donated cadavers for richly available cadavers and to prepare that combination of plastination materials and models with advanced tools for visualization provides the look and feel of real dissection.