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Study of Clinical Medical Teachers’ Attitudes to the Knowledge of Gross Anatomy of Medical Students

Im Sunju 1 Kam Bee Sung 1 LEE, SANG YEOUP 1 WOO,JAE-SUK 1 이종태 2 Lee, Sang Hwa 3 Rim Hark 4 Cho Gyeong Jae 5 Sun-Yong Baek 1

1부산대학교
2인제대학교
3동아대학교
4고신대학교
5경상대학교

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ABSTRACT

There is concerns about the perceived decline in the knowledge of gross anatomy of the medicalstudents and postgraduate trainees. It is partly caused by the introduction of integrated medical curriculum and theshortage of basic medical science program and the extension of clinical clerkship consequently. There is widespreadvariability in the teaching style and anatomical curricular content at the medical school in Korea. Despite thesechanges in the anatomical education, there have been few attempts to assess the opinions of senior clinical teacherson the state of anatomical knowledge of students and the place of anatomy teaching within the curriculum. Wesought the views of the clinical teachers on the adequacy of the anatomical knowledge of current students andrecent graduates of 5 medical schools in Pusan and Gyeongsang-Nam do areas. Most of the clinical teachers were of the opinion that current medical students have an insufficient anatomicalknowledge. They indicated the causes of decline were the clinical irrelevant anatomical teaching content and weaknessof identity of anatomy by the introduction of the integrated medical education program. There was widespreadsupport for both the concepts of spreading anatomy teaching throughout the medical course, and an optional,clinically related final year student project in the anatomy.

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