Assessing Medical Students' Understanding Of Applied Anatomy: The Influence Of Visual Resources On Their Preparedness For Medical Practice

Abstract

Using visual aids such as cadavers, photos of cadavers, radiographs, and images of clinical findings, students were examined on timed tests that assessed their topographical and practical understanding of anatomy. When it came to combining written assessments with visual assistance like drawings, very little was known. But new developments in the concept of multimodal learning have helped us understand how people take in information visually and textually at the same time. Finding out how well medical students did with and without graphics on clinically-oriented, one-best-answer questions was the major motivation for this study. Moreover, a questionnaire was used to evaluate how students' unique attributes and preferred evaluation and teaching techniques affected their final grades. Participating were seventy-five second-year students from six different UK medical schools. The questions were arranged in a way that was consistent with whether the stimulus was graphic or text-only. Along with the image type and deep components, the question's emphasis on the picture's soft-tissue or bone composition was taken into account. The following studies mostly aimed to comprehend the subject's complexity and its regional anatomy. Before turning in their final exams, the students reviewed their questionnaire responses. Student comments lent credence to this argument. The study's findings showed that several factors were impacted, including the number of pictures included, the difficulty of the questions, the depth of the images, regional anatomy, and students' performance. The level of success that students achieve could be greatly affected by their own choices. When diagnosing or treating a patient, it is crucial to have access to high-quality radiological and anatomical images. Finding out how these pictures influence commonly used written assessments was the primary goal of this study.