Accepted Type
Oral
Code
OE3-1-1
Acceptance Declaration
Accept
Additional Information
I declare I have no actual or potential conflict of interest in relation to this program.
Was this work accepted for CCME 2020?
no
Category
General Call (Workshop, Oral Presentation, Poster Presentation)
Type
Oral
Sub Type
Education Innovation
Will the presenter be a:
Student
Affiliation
Considered for Poster
yes
Title
Response to COVID-19: Implementing a Combination of In-person and Remote Delivery of Laboratory-based Human Anatomy Education to Medical Students
Length of Presentation
Background/Purpose
As remote teaching has become the forefront of education during the COVID-19 pandemic, medical curricula have been forced to adapt to provide quality education for core competencies. In particular, hands-on laboratory components have been largely reduced or removed from anatomy education to comply with social distancing guidelines. While this initially compromised typical learning environments, it also offered a unique opportunity to implement innovative teaching practices and assess their impacts on student learning.
Summary of the Innovation
In the 2020-2021 academic year, the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at McGill University initiated a modified teaching strategy for the anatomy laboratory curriculum that combined limited hands-on cadaveric dissection with laboratory-adjacent remote activities using a 3-D software application (Complete Anatomy 2021). All first-year medical students had the opportunity to experience both teaching formats during the respiratory and cardiovascular anatomy units in the Fall 2020 semester. Our study evaluated the efficacy of this new curriculum delivery format by comparing the hands-on and remote teaching approaches on the following outcomes: (i) student and instructor experiences, (ii) students' approach to learning and performance, and (iii) time, resource, and cost considerations.
Conclusion
The implementation and assessment of this modified teaching strategy will help guide educational policy revisions targeted at maintaining student-centered learning activities during the current and future disruptions to in-person teaching. Furthermore, given the visuospatial nature of anatomy, our findings can be broadly applied to courses in other hands-on disciplines that have been forced to move online.
Keyword 1
Anatomy education
Keyword 2
Remote learning
Keyword 3
Student experience
Level of Training
Undergraduate
Abstract Themes
Teaching and learning
Teaching and Learning
- Anatomy
- Collaborative/Peer to Peer
- Distance Learning
- E-Learning/Technology
- Small Group
- Quality improvement
Additional Theme (First choice)
Undergraduate
Additional Theme (Second Choice)
Physician & Medical Student Health and Well-being
Additional Theme (Third Choice)
Assessment
Authors
Presenter
Jobanpreet Dhillon
Term 1
Yes
Term 2
Yes
Term 3
Yes
Term 4
Yes
Term 5
Yes
