130 - Anatomage Virtual Dissection Table Improves the Anatomical Medical Education Efficiency in Podiatry Medicine

Poster Board Number: 130
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Co-authors:

Nader Ramzi - UTRGV School of Podiatric Medicine; Ali Ahmad - UTRGV School of Podiatric Medicine

Abstract Body : Anatomy is the language of Medicine within each Medical & Healthcare Profession. There has been a great deal of attention given to incorporation of advanced 3D Technology into Anatomical Science Education within Podiatry Medicine. Anatomage Virtual Dissection Table provides the benefit of offering life-size 3D virtual replica of the human body allowing the visualization of the Lower Extremity Anatomical Structures. DPM (Doctor of Podiatry Medicine) students will undergo a newly designed simulated lower anatomy educational session with the virtual dissection table and complete a pre and post educational session knowledge test. A pilot study with First-Year incoming DPM students will be conducted to validate the quality of the educational session and knowledge exam. The knowledge exam will be graded on a 0–100-point scale with questions of equal point value. A sample size of 28 to 30 Podiatry Medical students will be sufficient to comply with a 95% confidence interval and a 0.05 p value. All DPM students recruited for this study will be participating in traditional PowerPoint-Based lectures with the experimental group receiving advanced sessions with Anatomage to contemporize the acquisition of anatomy knowledge. Exclusion criteria will include having any advanced courses in Anatomy prior to acceptance into UTRGV, School of Podiatric Medicine Program. Pre-educational session knowledge test score will act as the control. The experimental data will be taken from the post educational session knowledge exam scores. Statistical analysis will be performed by comparing the outcomes between pre and post-educational sessions using a paired t- test. Our expected result is increased knowledge-based efficiency in visualized understanding of anatomical structures for the participants of this study compared to the control group