Effectiveness of teaching and learning resources of human anatomy content in the medical course.
Teaching; Evaluation; Human anatomy.
Pedagogical strategies and resources for teaching and learning Human Anatomy content are diversified and applied in line with the curricular matrices of courses in the biomedical area. This study aimed to assess the effectiveness of using different anatomy teaching resources with tests of knowledge and assessment of student motivation. Four lectures on the locomotor system were given to students of the fourth period of the Medicine course at the Multicampi School of Medical Sciences, in the municipality of Caicó-RN. After a brief study session, the students were divided into two groups: Group 1 (use of Virtual table) and Group 2 (use of plastinated pieces). Fourteen days after the completion of the scheduled study plan, tests were reapplied with the content addressed to all academics, a subjective assessment and a learning motivation questionnaire. Motivation scores as well as the means or medians of the tests were compared between groups. The means of subjective evaluations among students were also described and compared. The means of performance and confidence of students in the plastination group differed significantly between the two observation times. The confidence of students in the SECTRA group was higher in the post-test.