22Apr 2017

TEACHING HUMAN ANATOMY IN THE MEDICAL CURRICULUM: A TREND REVIEW.

  • Department of Anatomy, College of Allied Health Sciences, Gulf Medical University Ajman, United Arab Emirates.
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Teaching human anatomy has been reduced in the medical curricula globally, resulting in a decreased knowledge of human anatomy in practicing doctors. The decreased teaching of anatomy to medical student has been reported in many journals. It has been found that cadaveric dissection to be most suitable method in learning anatomy, which has been reduced due to various factors. Dissection should remain as the principle teaching modality for anatomy teaching in modern medical schools. There are reports suggesting that, in some centers, studying anatomy using cadaver-dissection is no longer demanding and this trend is inclined to underestimate the crucial purpose of anatomy in the medical field. Modern teaching methodology and the problem based learning (PBL) does have a good outcome in understanding the clinical part of a disease. The depth of basic medical sciences knowledge has been found to be inadequate among the students. It is still debatable, to what extent the basic medical sciences knowledge, especially anatomy is needed for becoming a good doctor. This has necessitated a serious evaluation of the method of human anatomy teaching in medical schools around the world.

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[Satheesha Nambiar Periya (2017); TEACHING HUMAN ANATOMY IN THE MEDICAL CURRICULUM: A TREND REVIEW. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Apr). 445-448] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com

Satheesha Nambiar Periya
Department of Anatomy, College of Allied Health Sciences, Gulf Medical University Ajman, United Arab Emirates

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/3830      
DOI URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/3830

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