Therefore, the creation of our newly created Anatomy Facilities aimed to address all these aspects of modern medical education. who state that currently there is no single teaching methodology that satisfies all the learning outcomes of a medical curriculum. This solidified the comments by Kerby et al. Hence, we had to create an anatomy laboratory that reduces the number of outsourced body donations to a minimum and that can accommodate and implement current best practices in anatomy education.Įstai and Bunt (2016) summarized, in a critical review, that the current best practices to teach anatomy in a medical curriculum is to combine various teaching resources, e.g., plastic models, plastinated human specimens, computer-assisted learning modalities, dissection, prosected specimens, as well as ultrasound, radiographs, CT and MRI images. Moreover, establishing a body donor program is very costly and requires at least five years before universities can avail themselves of cadavers. When establishing our new Medical College, it was not feasible to establish a body donation program, and other sustainable cadaver resources had to be investigated.
Education in anatomy must be appropriate to Middle Eastern culture without compromising the training of skilled medical doctors. Another important objective was to provide facilities for anatomical, biomedical, radiological, orthopedic, and surgical research.
Part of the planning and development efforts was the creation of state-of-the-art anatomy laboratories providing appropriate facilities for a growing student cohort to eventually accommodate between 100 and 120 students per graduating year, as well as focus on interactive student-centered teaching of medical and Allied Health Science students, and for organizing Continuing Medical Education (CME) activities. Subsequently, they accepted 34, 48, and 44 students in the following years. As such, the CMHS accepted 30 students in 2019 as its inaugural student cohort to graduate in 2023. KU opted to create a four-year postgraduate Medical Degree (MD) program modeled after the US American system. Initially encompassing the College of Engineering and the College of Arts and Sciences, it was decided in 2018 to establish a College of Medicine and Health Sciences (CMHS) to address the growing demand in the country of well-trained physicians and allied health workers. Khalifa University of Science and Technology (KU), a public research university located in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, was founded in 2007 to nurture a knowledge-based economy. Moreover, these technologies allowed for a smooth transition from on-site anatomy teaching to online education during the COVID pandemic. These educational modalities and teaching approaches are highly appreciated by our faculty and students. The layout of our newly created Anatomy Facilities allows for all aspects of modern medical education mentioned in the literature. Moreover, the Complete Anatomy® program is made available to all our students. The Imaging Center is equipped with a Sectra® medical educational platform, CAE Vimedix® Virtual Medical Imaging Ultrasound Training System, and Philipps Lumify® Ultrasound devices to train students to conduct and interpret sonographic images. The Webinar Room acts as a conference room for departmental and online meetings, discussions with students, and dialogues with affiliated hospitals via the internet. Each of our three Dry Laboratories allow for active learning and interaction between small student groups. The Instructional Studio houses prosected and plastinated specimens, and cadaveric dissections are performed. Our educational modalities include a broad range of teaching approaches. To assess student satisfaction, a survey related to student perception of the anatomy facilities (5-point Likert scale) was conducted. MethodsĪ list of best practices for anatomy education in a modern medical curriculum was summarized from the literature. This article describes the process in which our state-of-the-art anatomy laboratories were designed and implemented, and how these facilities support aspects of modern anatomy education. The establishment of new anatomy facilities needs to accommodate a combination of modern teaching modalities that best align with evidence-based best teaching practices.
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