Design and Development of Virtual Autopsy System for Teaching Medical Undergraduates

ABSTRACT

In recent decades, the utilization of autopsies as a teaching tool in undergraduate medical education is facing many challenges due to the nature of the medico legal issues. Aside from that, school closures and remote or hybrid learning environments manifested during Covid-19 pandemic have created more challenges for educators. Students are missing out the autopsy-based teaching, which provide various advantages. Moreover, it is difficult to assess students in ways that encourage and empower them to progress. Fortunately, the technology has the potential to provide a virtual museum with an interactive cadaver of several case studies, each with its own history and narrative beside, quizzes and assessments that give educational reasoning, analyze and track the user's learning. The objective of this research is to establish a virtual system for teaching the basis of Forensic medicine to medical students. The system is developed as a web based system, moreover this research uses Agile development approach as the methodology for this system development, the platform is developed to provide a single platform for material, assessment and feedback. Therefore, including 3 stages of the teaching and learning process, the system include scope for educators and learners as well. © 2022 IEEE.