1. AMEE 2016 : Innovating in Education: 27-31 August 2016
Centre de Conventions International de Barcelona (CCIB), Barcelona, Spain
Integration of endoscopic application to teach human gastrointestinal tract anatomy for second year medical students
Asst.Prof. Taweesak Tongtawee M.D. ,FRCST
Department of surgery, Institute of medicine, Suranaree University of Technology Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
Background: Major problem of medical students is can’t identify the gross anatomy and correlation them with real clinical practice. Endoscopy is a standard diagnostic tool for gastrointestinal tract diseases and used widely in clinical practice. The aim of our study, to evaluate the effect of Integration of endoscopic application to teach human gastrointestinal tract anatomy for 2nd year medical students in an institute of medicine, Suranaree University of Technology. Summary of Work: A total 80 2nd year medical students were enrolled in the study from October 2015 to December 2015 at the Institute of Medicine, Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon- Ratchasima, Thailand .We design the endoscopic applications (esophagogastroduodenoscopy and colonoscopy application) and used them to teach human gastrointestinal tract anatomy for 2nd year medical students. End of the class, our evaluation of 80 returned questionnaires. The percentages of each questionnaire were calculated and compared by Student’s t tests between pre and post class. A P- value of < 0.05 was considered significant. Summary of Results: Anonymous evaluation of 80 2nd medical students (male 24 ,female 56) returned questionnaires (100% response rate) showed that more than 80% of respondents considered the session had stimulated and improved their understanding of human gastrointestinal tract anatomy. When compered pre and post class, the result show that significantly improve their understanding of human gastrointestinal tract anatomy (p <0.01). Discussion: mostly of 2nd medical students improve knowledge and understanding of human gastrointestinal tract anatomy after evaluation by questionnaires. Endoscopic application is the best teaching tools that can integration teach the Pre- clinic medical students. Conclusion: Integration of the endoscopic applications to teach human gastrointestinal tract anatomy can improve their understanding gastrointestinal tract mucosa anatomy, interesting to topic, good organization, learning the clinical relevance of anatomy and pathology and future direction to learning about anatomy and physiology to medical students. Take Home Messages: How to use the endoscopic application to teach human gastrointestinal tract anatomy?
Picture 1: The endoscopic application
Table1: the effect of Integration of endoscopic application to teach human
gastrointestinal tract anatomy for 2nd year medical students
Acknowledgements
This study was supported by a grant for medical investigation from Suranaree University of Technology and was approved by the Ethics Committee for Research Involving Human Subjects Suranaree University of Technology (EC-57-34)
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