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Developing and evaluating virtual anatomy resources for teaching allied health disciplines.

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dc.contributor.authorMassy Westropp, N.
dc.contributor.authorGiles, E.
dc.contributor.authorDantu, R.
dc.contributor.authorWechalekar, H.
dc.contributor.authorBurlakoti, A.
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractAllied health professionals require an understanding of anatomy for purposes such as planning radiotherapy, or treating muscle imbalance. In practice, they will rarely see the structure they are treating, but seeing it during their education is invaluable. To reveal deep structures in the human body, neighbouring structures are unavoidably removed as a donated human body is dissected. Academic and clinical staff approached the challenge for students’ understanding of the male reproductive and urinary system, which is indeed disrupted by dissection. An existing radiotherapy planning instrument Virtual Environment for Radiotherapy Training was used to create videos of real patients’ internal structures. Structures difficult to see in dis-section, models and images were transformed from magnetic resonance and computerised tomography scans into videos that appeared three-dimensional, for use by students learning anatomy. Qualitative evaluation of these anatomy videos suggested that they can be accessed at students’ convenience and can be customised with captions, pauses or quizzes. Quantitative evaluation suggested that offering assessment-related incentives may not result in all students choosing to access the videos, but that those who did performed better on both labelling and short answer explanations of related content on immediate and short-term testing
dc.identifier.citationResearch in Learning Technology, 2019; 27(0):1-11
dc.identifier.doi10.25304/rlt.v27.2125
dc.identifier.issn2156-7069
dc.identifier.issn2156-7077
dc.identifier.orcidGiles, E. [0000-0002-1385-422X]
dc.identifier.orcidBurlakoti, A. [0000-0001-9317-6352]
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11541.2/139187
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.rightsCopyright 2019 The author(s). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, allowing third parties to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and to remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially, provided the original work is properly cited and states its license. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
dc.source.urihttps://doi.org/10.25304/rlt.v27.2125
dc.subjectdigital anatomy
dc.subjecttertiary
dc.subjectvirtual environment for radiotherapy training
dc.subjectlearning object review instrument
dc.titleDeveloping and evaluating virtual anatomy resources for teaching allied health disciplines.
dc.typeJournal article
pubs.publication-statusPublished
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