A Journey Like No Other: Anatomy 2020!

Smith, Claire F.; Pawlina, Wojciech

doi:10.1002/ase.2039

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“…As stated in a recent editorial, anatomists need to be leaders and should demonstrate skills to cope up with crisis in addition to being educators (Smith and Pawlina, 2021). Anatomy educators have a bigger role to play and must learn from the benefits and shortcomings of teaching methods employed during the Covid-19 pandemic.…”

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Anatomy Online Teaching During Covid‐19 Pandemic: The Need for Responsive Anatomy Learning Ecosystem

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Mushaiqri

2021

Anatomical Sciences Ed

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artificial intelligence to detect brain anomalies in an unsupervised manner (Baur et al., 2021).Datasets of MRIs of diseases including microangiopathy, glioblastoma, and multiple sclerosis were assessed with both supervised and unsupervised U-net models. The unsupervised deep learning model was ultimately very effective in detecting wide range of brain anomalies (Baur et al., 2021). Studies like this demonstrate that we are in the digital age of medicine, and students should be trained in artificial intelligence to be successful with these new technologies.Anatomy 3D software packages may be beneficial but are costly. Instead, we feel that institutions should start preparing and storing their own recorded practical sessions and other electronic resources in their departmental repositories to prepare for future lockdown situations. One caveat is that online sessions do require fast internet connection with adequate bandwidth. Remote areas with decreased technology infrastructure will be disproportionality affected by this. We feel that a proper responsive ecosystem needs to be created for active online learning. We think that more e-learning methods and virtual community platforms based on various social, educational, cultural, financial and geographical diversities could better learning outcomes. Modern learning materials, interactive media, information technology, and new devices can provide a better learning ecosystem. Teaching has to be made a community property (Hutchins, 1996).As stated in recent editorial, anatomists need to be leaders and should demonstrate skills to cope up with crisis in addition to being educators (Smith and Pawlina, 2021). Anatomy educators have a bigger role to play and must learn from the benefits and shortcomings of teaching methods employed during the Covid-19 pandemic.We applaud the excellent work by the authors and thank the editor for publishing such an important article.

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Anatomy Online Teaching During Covid‐19 Pandemic: The Need for Responsive Anatomy Learning Ecosystem

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Mushaiqri

2021

Anatomical Sciences Ed

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“…We have read, with great interest, several articles published in the Anatomical Sciences Education regarding anatomy teaching in the Covid-19 pandemic (Evans et al, 2020;Pather et al, 2020;Smith and Pawlina, 2021) and would like to reflect on the subject.…”

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“…This is particularly true when considering the practice of human cadaver dissection, with its associated logistical complexity, possible health risks, and need for skillful instructors and knowledgeable faculty members. Although data are not fully available, many medical schools shut down their dissection halls, as part of necessary social distancing requirements, and switched to a virtual teaching platform (Evans et al, 2020;Smith and Pawlina, 2021). This shutdown was coupled, in many cases, with emerging calls to change the dissection-based curriculum to more-cost effective, technological, and chiefly virtual solutions (Evans et al, 2020;Byrnes et al, 2021;Chumbley et al, 2021;Saverino, 2021;Singal et al, 2021).…”

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“…They are part of the "hidden curriculum," the first step in building a doctor's professional identity, which is as important as the transfer of knowledge (Netterstrøm and Kayser, 2008;Ghosh and Kumar, 2019;Pawlina, 2019). The current crisis, brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic, allowed teaching faculty to come up with bold ideas and project them to students, which serves as a strong lesson in leadership (O'Connell and Pascoe, 2004;Ghosh, 2017;Smith and Pawlina, 2021).…”

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Educating Future Doctors in Covid‐19 Times: Anatomists Lead the Way!

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Dickman

Karasik

2021

Anatomical Sciences Ed

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“…Indeed, face-to-face teaching in medical schools has been replaced by e-learning modalities. Anatomists around the world have responded by necessarily forcing their students to study remotely, challenging their resources (Evans et al, 2020;Ravi, 2020;Harmon et al, 2021) generating sometimes a psychological impact (Cuschieri and Calleja Agius, 2020;Smith and Pawlina, 2021). Also, surgical education has embraced e-learning modalities by joining live webinars and lectures, increasing and evolving even the use of social media platforms (Laurentino Lima et al, 2020).…”

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