Does the existing traditional undergraduate Anatomy curriculum satisfy the senior medical students.
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Date
2009-12
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South East Asia Regional Association for Medical Education.
Abstract
Interns at the end of their clinical year and medical students at the end of their final year were
asked to evaluate the anatomy curriculum they had experienced in their undergraduate preclinical
years. Most of the respondents found that the gross anatomy taught to them was
adequate but the vast majority expressed that clinical anatomy, imaging anatomy and surface
and living anatomy were inadequate. Both interns and medical students ranked anatomy
courses and integrated clinical topics as the keystone for their clinical training and felt the
need of a clinically oriented anatomy curriculum, case studies and participation of clinical
faculty members in teaching during the pre-clinical years. Retrospective evaluations at the
end of internships and the undergraduate years are helpful “evidence” to be considered when
reforming the anatomy curriculum, and in particular when developing a clinical core course in
anatomy. The results of such surveys should be taken into consideration when discussing
modifications to the anatomy curriculum.
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Interns, evaluation, imaging anatomy
Citation
Kaimkhani Zahid A, Ahmed Masood, Fayez Musaed Al, Khoshhal Khalid, Zafar Muhammad, Javaid Assad. Does the existing traditional undergraduate Anatomy curriculum satisfy the senior medical students. South East Asia Regional Association for Medical Education. 2009 Dec; 3(2): 20-26.