Today’s human anatomy students are faced with an overwhelming amount of content to master, while instructors find themselves with far less time to teach anatomy. But with Primal Pictures’ Anatomy Learning Outcomes for Medicine, faculty and students at Ormskirk, England’s Edge Hill University Medical School have found a resource that allows them to strategically select engaging digital content and use it to efficiently enhance the understanding of human anatomy for medicine.
Streamlining anatomy learning
“Primal’s learning outcome videos explain specific points in detail,” says Dylan Williams, Lecturer in Integrated Science, about the resource’s use of the Anatomical Society’s learning outcomes necessary for studying medicine. “Focusing on individual learning outcomes helps students easily home in on whatever is specifically causing confusion or about which they would like more detail.”
Created with the input of anatomy experts from around the world and accessible through Primal Pictures’ Anatomy.tv platform, Primal’s Anatomy Learning Outcomes for Medicine is a vital hub of lecture videos, visuals, and clinical images. Edge Hill faculty members like Williams use the module to enhance the points made in their own classroom sessions, offer students a variety of different lecturers with different teaching styles, and provide a resource for student self-learning.
Williams explains that the module helps streamline anatomy learning by providing easy-to-find, topic-specific content that is enhanced with cutting-edge visuals. “From my own experience and discussions with students, I believe the hardest parts of learning anatomy relate to the large amount of academic content, the issue of visualizing things in 3D, and [the challenge of] applying it clinically,” he says. Each video combines the accuracy and comprehensiveness of Primal’s digital human anatomy content with the standards of the Anatomical Society’s Core Regional Anatomy Syllabus for Undergraduate Medicine. Published in 2015, this 156-point document was created to apply to all medical programs, standardizing the level of anatomical knowledge required for a successful career in medicine. Each and every point in the syllabus has an accompanying video lecture in the module, all enhanced with integrated 3D modeling from Primal.
Focusing on individual learning outcomes helps students easily home in on whatever is specifically causing confusion or about which they would like more detail.
Dylan Williams
Assessing student success
Lecturers at Edge Hill University Medical School use these standardized learning outcomes as a pivotal way to assess their students’ success. “We base our anatomy teaching on the Anatomical Society’s learning outcomes for medicine, so videos dedicated to each one are extremely beneficial,” says Williams. “We signpost students to the videos and ensure they know the content aligns with our curriculum,” he adds, noting that the university also intends to incorporate them as part of live lectures in the future.
“Learning Outcomes helps make clear what students need to do and delivers content to them in bitesize portions,” says Williams. “The use of Anatomy.tv with this means students can see 3D representations of what is being discussed whilst it is being covered, which typically isn’t possible in conventional lectures.”
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