Saavedra Miguel Ángel, Navarro-Zarza José E, Alvarez-Nemegyei José, Canoso Juan J, Kalish Robert A, Villaseñor-Ovies Pablo, Hernández-Díaz Cristina
Rheumatology Department, Hospital de Especialidades Dr. Antonio Fraga Mouret, Centro Médico Nacional La Raza, IMSS, Mexico City, Mexico.
Hospital General de Chilpancingo Raymundo Abarca Alarcón, Chilpancingo, Guerrero, Mexico.
Reumatol Clin. 2015 Jul-Aug;11(4):224-6. doi: 10.1016/j.reuma.2014.11.003. Epub 2014 Dec 17.
To survey the efficacy of a practical workshop on clinical musculoskeletal anatomy held in five American countries.
A self-assessment competence questionnaire sent to participants 1-3 months after the workshop. Results were compared to the results of a practical, instructor-assessed, pre-workshop test.
The response rate of participants was 76.4%. The overall, self-assessed competence score for anatomical items that had been included in the pre-test was 76.9 (scale 0-100) as compared to an overall score of 48.1 in the practical, pre-workshop test (p<0.001). For items that were addressed in the workshop, but not included in the pre-test, self-assessed competence was rated at 62.9. Differences in anatomical knowledge between individuals from different countries and professional groups noted in the practical pre-test were no longer present in the post-test self-assessment.
From this preliminary data and supporting evidence from the literature we believe that our anatomy workshop provides an effective didactic tool for increasing competence in musculoskeletal anatomy.
