BlueLink is a digital multimedia resource which provides high quality, expert‐reviewed anatomical resources free for educational use and accessible via the web. The BlueLink website was assessed by survey for user demographics and preference data. Data from the survey indicate consumers outside of U‐M are primarily learners from other medical institutions (85.6%). The majority of users came to the site via teacher or peer recommendation (58.4%), or an online search (40.7%), and most use the site for personal study purposes (91.8%). The preferred resources were 1) Online Practice Questions, 2) QuizLink Interactive Quizzes, and 3) BlueLink Cadaveric Atlas Images. Users suggest a potential benefit from making the site easier‐to‐navigate. These results indicate that while BlueLink has an international student user base, it can still expand to provide more of the requested video and animation‐based resources for its diverse variety of anatomical learners. These results demonstrate that digital resources, specifically cadaveric and quiz‐based, are highly utilized and preferred by anatomy students.This abstract is from the Experimental Biology 2019 Meeting. There is no full text article associated with this abstract published in The FASEB Journal.

Knowledge and publication of human anatomic variations has become increasingly emphasized in the clinical setting with the intent of decreasing the occurrence of misdiagnosis and surgical complications. We report a previously undocumented variant of sternalis muscle. The sternalis muscle is an anatomical variation of the anterior thoracic wall that is rare, though well‐documented. This inconstant muscle is typically parasternal and superficial to pectoralis major muscle, with its fibers running vertically. Dissection of the anterior thoracic wall on an 83‐year‐old female cadaver revealed bilateral sternalis muscles. The right sternalis muscle has a single belly and can be classified using the Snosek et al. (2014) classification system as a simple type, left single. The left sternalis muscle presented with three muscle bellies, each having a unique pattern of superior attachments. This variation is previously undocumented, and we propose the addition of a new subtype of sternalis classification, as well as a modification to the Snosek et al. (2014) classification scheme to include classifying different muscle bellies when multiple are present.This abstract is from the Experimental Biology 2018 Meeting. There is no full text article associated with this abstract published in The FASEB Journal.

Curricula may fail to assess the incongruences between the various methods of learning employed by students and assessments. In the University of Michigan Human Anatomy course (ANAT 403), students are provided with physical specimens to study in lab, as well as cadaveric images developed by the BlueLink project. Lab practicals were first offered with physical specimens, and were later replaced with projected BlueLink cadaveric images. As images were used for both student studying and assessment, it was hypothesized that using other sources of cadaveric images for lab practicals would create more of a challenge for students. Assessment data was collected and compared from Fall 2017 that utilized BlueLink images during the exam, and from Fall 2018 that use published atlas images. Instructors were constant. While some variation exists within the data, no overall statistically significant effects on test scores were found between the two virtual testing strategies.This abstract is from the Experimental Biology 2019 Meeting. There is no full text article associated with this abstract published in The FASEB Journal.

First year medical and dental students at the University of Michigan do not receive formal dissection training as part of their foundational human gross anatomy courses. As a result, many students do not know proper dissection techniques when they begin their dissection on the first day of lab, and often resort to learning by trial and error, or by observing faculty and teaching assistants as labs progress. In an attempt to help students feel more prepared and alleviate some of the anxiety associated with the first day in the gross labs, a series of short videos were produced to discuss and demonstrate the different aspects of dissection. The videos were provided as an adjunct to the first year medical and first year dental curricula on the BlueLink website, as well as on the BlueLink YouTube channel. Feedback data is collected from University of Michigan medical and dental students regarding the usefulness of this video series via surveys. In addition to University of Michigan students, these videos could be a useful resource to students at other institutions that also might not provide formal dissection instruction. As of November 2019, the views for each video ranges between 800 and 1900 views, with an average of 1300 views per video in the series.

The aim of this project is to provide a unique tool for anatomy students of all levels to apply common physical activities in the process of learning anatomical structures and functions. The practice of yoga was chosen to demonstrate the dynamic anatomical components of the upper and lower limbs through a variety of poses. This is explored through a series of videos: ‘Learning Anatomy through Yoga’. This series was developed with a fourth year medical student at the University of Michigan, who is also a certified yoga instructor. During the musculoskeletal sequence in April, first year medical students will assess the efficacy of this resource via surveys. In the future, the ‘Learning Anatomy through Yoga’ video series will be part of a broader project that demonstrates functional anatomy in everyday physical activity, such as weight lifting, rowing, pilates, etc. Instructor demonstrating specific attachment points on skeleton