The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of using Mind Maps in teaching anatomy and compare it with traditional based slide. This cross-sectional research was carried out in 2009 on 79 second year medical undergraduate students at Ahvaz Jondishapour University of Medical sciences. Four class lectures on the topics of head and neck osteology were taught. The lectures were slide ba...

INTRODUCTION Today's physicians must demonstrate both professionalism and leadership skills in order to succeed in largely team-based healthcare environments. The purpose of this study was to determine if professionalism attributes, leadership style, and leadership style adaptability are associated with academic performance among first-year students early in their medical curriculum. MATERIAL...

We describe the macroscopic anatomy of the intestine of the giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis). The small intestine was divided into duodenum, jejunum and ileum as usual. The caecum was attached to the ileum by a long ileocaecal fold, and to the proximal ansa of the ascending colon by a caecocolic fold. The ascending colon was the most developed portion of the gross intestine and had the most com...

Peer-assisted learning encourages students to participate more actively in the dissection process and promotes thoughtful dissection. We implemented peer-assisted dissection in 2012 and compared its effects on students' self-assessments of learning and their academic achievement with those of faculty-led dissection. All subjects performed dissections after a lecture about upper-limb gross anato...

BACKGROUND Human dissection commonly occurs early in the undergraduate medical school curriculum, thus presenting an immediate opportunity for educators to teach and encourage humanistic qualities of respect, empathy, and compassion. PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to measure the impact of the Donor Luncheon, a unique program in which medical students meet the families of the anatomical...

From a compilation of 1411 gross dissections of the hearts from patients who had had recent electrocardiograms prior to death, 62 were found to have frontal QRS axes between +90 and +1800. Thirty-eight exhibited an S1Q3R3 pattern-the second screening criterion basic to consideration for the label of left posterior hemiblock (LPH). Twenty-two of these also had right ventricular free wall weights...

Introduction The primary purpose of this review was to focus on the gross anatomy, including morphometric characteristics and arterial vasculature, of the human cerebellar tonsil. We also aimed to investigate the neurosurgical anatomy of this clinically important structure of the human brain. Discussion The cerebellar tonsil is a rounded lobule on the undersurface of each cerebellar hemisphere,...

U ltrasound (USS) or ultrasonic imaging is now a mature technology having a well-established place in clinical practice and accounting for about one in four of all imaging procedures worldwide (1). More recently, USS has become the latest noninvasive method of morphological study to aid or supplement the teaching of gross human anatomy in some medical school curricula (2 6). Indeed, an expandin...

BACKGROUND The use of cadavers in human anatomy teaching requires adequate number of anatomy instructors who can provide close supervision of the students. Most medical schools are facing challenges of lack of trained individuals to teach anatomy. Innovative techniques are therefore needed to impart adequate and relevant anatomical knowledge and skills. This study was conducted in order to eval...

1Department of Anatomy, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece 2Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 62110 Serres, Greece 3Department of Anatomy, University of Cologne, 50931 Cologne, Germany 4Department of Histology and Embryology, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessalo...