Abstract
Most medical and health science schools adopt innovative tools to implement the teaching of anatomy to their undergraduate students. The increase in technological resources for educational purposes allows the use of virtual systems in the field of medicine, which can be considered decisive for improving anatomical knowledge, a requisite for safe and competent medical practice. Among these virtual tools, the Anatomage Table 7.0 represents, to date, a pivotal anatomical device for student education and training medical professionals. This review focuses attention on the potential of the Anatomage Table in the anatomical learning process and clinical practice by discussing these topics based on recent publication findings and describing their trends during the COVID-19 pandemic period. The reports documented a great interest in and a positive impact of the use of this technological table by medical students for teaching gross anatomy. Anatomage allows to describe, with accuracy and at high resolution, organ structure, vascularization, and innervation, as well as enables to familiarize with radiological images of real patients by improving knowledge in the radiological and surgical fields. Furthermore, its use can be considered strategic in a pandemic period, since it ensures, through an online platform, the continuation of anatomical and surgical training on dissecting cadavers.
Highlights
Human anatomy is a fundamental subject of study in the process of teaching and training medical students, since anatomical knowledge is a requisite for safe and competent medical practice [1,2,3,4,5], and it is indispensable in medical curricula
The study of the gross anatomy of the pelvis and musculoskeletal system via the Anatomage Table revealed that this modality appears equivalent to cadaveric dissection [2]
The literature data suggest that the Anatomage Table captured the enthusiasm of the students who are predisposed to the use of technology in facilitating learning [28,29]
Summary
Human anatomy is a fundamental subject of study in the process of teaching and training medical students, since anatomical knowledge is a requisite for safe and competent medical practice [1,2,3,4,5], and it is indispensable in medical curricula.Cadaveric dissection is a standardized approach essential to reaching a solid knowledge of anatomy and to know in situ anatomical abnormalities and variations [6,7].Through dissection practice, students can orient themselves inside the human body to understand where the main topographical landmarks are localized and to describe anatomical three-dimensional (3D) relations. Human anatomy is a fundamental subject of study in the process of teaching and training medical students, since anatomical knowledge is a requisite for safe and competent medical practice [1,2,3,4,5], and it is indispensable in medical curricula. Cadaveric dissection is a standardized approach essential to reaching a solid knowledge of anatomy and to know in situ anatomical abnormalities and variations [6,7]. Dissection represents a huge advantage compared to single-dimensional images in textbooks, for students, and for post-graduates and specialists. Dissection improves clinical training, and it is useful for surgeons who, through cadavers, can acquire greater safety and dexterity and can test deviceful surgical procedures [8,9]. Practice on human cadavers allows to develop medical procedure skills, for instance, its role in the learning of lung auscultation was described by Bakalarski and coworkers [10]
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