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Designing Anatomy Program in Modern Medical Curriculum: Matter of Balance
Ivica Grković
; Department of Anatomy, Histiology and Embryology, University of Split School of Medicine, Split, Croatia
Maja Marinović Guić
; Department of Anatomy, Histiology and Embryology, University of Split School of Medicine, Split, Croatia
Vana Košta
; Department of Anatomy, Histiology and Embryology, University of Split School of Medicine, Split, Croatia
Ana Poljičanin
; Department of Anatomy, Histiology and Embryology, University of Split School of Medicine, Split, Croatia
Ana Čarić
; Department of Anatomy, Histiology and Embryology, University of Split School of Medicine, Split, Croatia
Katarina Vilović
; Department of Anatomy, Histiology and Embryology, University of Split School of Medicine, Split, Croatia
Sažetak
Aim To evaluate the structure of the anatomy program
in the first year medical curriculum of University of Split
School of Medicine by comparing it with the recommendations
by the Educational Affairs Committee of the American
Association of Clinical Anatomists (AACA) and the
Terminologia Anatomica (TA); we also quantitatively evaluated
the organization of teaching material in contemporary
topographical anatomy textbooks and matched them
with the AACA recommendations, TA, and the curriculum
of the anatomy course taught at Medical School in Split,
Croatia.
Methods TA, official recommendations of the AACA, 6
contemporary anatomy textbooks, and the structure of the
anatomy course were analyzed for the proportion of the
terms or text devoted to standard topographical regions
of the body. The findings were correlated using Spearman
ρ test.
Results The curriculum outline correlated both with the
AACA recommendations (Spearman ρ = 0.83, P = 0.015)
and TA (Spearman ρ = 0.73, P = 0.046). Textbooks contained
8 distinct sections, 7 allocated to topographic anatomy regions
and 1 to general anatomy concepts and principles.
The structure of all textbooks correlated significantly with
the course curriculum. However, 4 out of 6 textbooks did
not correlate with TA and only a single textbook showed
significant correlation with the AACA recommendations.
Conclusion Anatomy textbooks vary in the amount of text
dedicated to different parts of topographical anatomy and
are not quite concordant with curriculum recommendations
and standard anatomical terminology. Planning the
structure of an anatomy course should not be based on a
single book or recommendation but on evidence.
Ključne riječi
Medical curriculum; anatomy program; anatomy textbooks; Terminologia Anatomica, correlation
Hrčak ID:
38307
URI
Datum izdavanja:
15.2.2009.
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