Sinou Natalia, Sinou Nikoleta, Filippou Dimitrios
Research and Education Institute in Biomedical Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens, GRC.
Research and Education in Biomedical Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens, GRC.
Cureus. 2023 Feb 19;15(2):e35170. doi: 10.7759/cureus.35170. eCollection 2023 Feb.
The pandemic of COVID-19 has radically changed the anatomy education approaches. This happens because medical students, due to the necessity of remote education, didn't have access to cadavers, which was the principal method of dissection training. Circumstances like these encouraged the health care providers to innovate new teaching methods with the help of virtual and augmented reality to outdistance the restrictions. This review aims to examine the pioneer technological and educational tools and their usage in the future. Detailed research was performed via the PubMed database using the following keywords "Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), Anatomy Education, and COVID-19". No further filters were used. All the existing evidence suggests that the vast majority was negatively affected by the COVID-19 era. Using new technological methods in anatomy training could not effectively replace the absence of the traditionally used teaching methods like dissection, prosection, and lectures by physical presence. Although the new digital anatomy teaching approaches seem to be very promising, it is not clear if they can fully replace the traditional anatomy education methods.
新型冠状病毒肺炎大流行已经从根本上改变了解剖学教育方法。出现这种情况的原因是，由于远程教育的必要性，医学生无法接触尸体，而尸体解剖是解剖训练的主要方法。诸如此类的情况促使医疗保健提供者在虚拟现实和增强现实的帮助下创新新的教学方法，以克服这些限制。本综述旨在研究开创性的技术和教育工具及其在未来的应用。通过PubMed数据库使用以下关键词“虚拟现实（VR）、增强现实（AR）、解剖学教育和新型冠状病毒肺炎”进行了详细研究。未使用进一步的筛选条件。所有现有证据表明，绝大多数人受到了新型冠状病毒肺炎时代的负面影响。在解剖学训练中使用新技术方法无法有效替代传统教学方法的缺失，如解剖、局部解剖和现场讲座。尽管新的数字解剖学教学方法似乎很有前景，但它们是否能完全取代传统的解剖学教育方法尚不清楚。
