learning from an interactive online platform

KLINISCHE ANATOMIE TÜBINGEN

LEARNING FROM AN INTERACTIVE ONLINE PLATFORM: ANATOMY AND INTER-PROFESSIONAL COLLABORATION IN THE OPERATION ROOM JOHANNES GROSSER, M.SC., DR. MARTINA BIENTZLE, & PROF. DR. JOACHIM KIMMERLE Idea

Methods

We aimed to examine the educational potential of an online platform that shows the interplay between knowledge in anatomy and interprofessional collaboration in the Operation Room (OR).

Subjects participated in an online-study and were randomly assigned to one of two conditions.

Online platforms have been shown to be well applicable in medical education (Bientzle et al., 2015; Griewatz et al., 2016).

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Evaluation / Results Participants: N = 114, medical students

Experimental group watched a 15 minutes Sectio Chirurgica (SC) video about an ACL reconstruction surgery. While 2/3 of the video showed inter-professional interactions in the OR, 1/3 of the video showed a professor providing anatomical background information.

Age = 24.32 (SD = 7.41); 58f, 55m, 1* Semester = 5.27 (SD = 2.95) 55 SC-Condition, 59 Lecture-Condition

Control group was provided with a video of comparable length that showed the same professor holding a lecture about ACL reconstruction, covering identical information.

Rationale •

Anatomy is often considered to be quite dull, as the knowledge is taught by books, lectures, or in dissection courses that rarely illustrate the clinical relevance of anatomy.

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Nevertheless, there is no doubt that knowledge in anatomy is essential for each medical student.

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Online-based video platforms may help to illustrate the relevance of the interplay between basic knowledge in anatomy and inter-professional collaboration in the OR and therefore to make it more tangible.

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It has not been taken into account sufficiently how students can be supported in understanding the relationship between basic anatomical knowledge and clinical application on the one hand and the importance of interprofessional collaboration on the other.

We examined to what extent the online platform Sectio Chirurgica can be used for these educational purposes and which factors are relevant in this context.

• Comprehensibility How comprehensible was the presentation of information?

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Measures Measures Measures Measures

• Conceivability of information Were actions imaginable and proceedings known during surgery? • Medical knowledge • Anatomical knowledge

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- clearer in presenting information F(1, 112) = 4.288, p = .041 - more entertaining F(1, 112) = 37.340, p < .001

The SC also contributed to higher scores in clinical knowledge F(1, 112) = 3.793, p = .054, particularly for students in clinical courses F(1, 112) = 4.187, p = .043.

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• Clearness of information Was the information clear, was it distracting? • Entertaining character Was the video exiting, informative and enjoyable?

Demographics

- more comprehensible F(1, 112) = 8.667, p = .004

- more conceivable F(1, 112) = 5.107, p = .026 Measures:

Following the video, participants filled in questionnaires in which they assessed the video. They also completed a knowledge test.

Analyzing the variances, we could show that SC was considered to be

• Clinical knowledge

Impact With our results we showed that online based video formats that specifically link basic knowledge to clinical application are capable of making anatomy more attractive and especially tangible to medical students. Moreover, we assume that this format may also lead to higher learning performance for applied knowledge.

References

SC is an online video platform where medical students have the opportunity to join surgical live-stream lectures that explicitly integrate pre-clinical anatomical education and clinical application (Hirt et al., 2010). The surgeries on body donators are supposed to illustrate the relevance of the interplay between basic knowledge in anatomy and inter-professional collaboration in the OR.

Bientzle, M., Griewatz, J., Kimmerle, J., Küppers, J., Cress, U., & Lammerding-Koeppel, M. (2015). Impact of scientific versus emotional wording of patient questions on doctor-patient communication in an Internet forum: A randomized controlled experiment with medical students. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 17, e268. Griewatz, J., Lammerding-Koeppel, M., Bientzle, M., Cress, U., & Kimmerle, J. (2016). Using simulated forums for training of online patient-counselling. Medical Education, 50, 576-577. Hirt, B., Shiozawa, T., Herlan, S., Wagner, H. J., & Küppers, E. (2010). Surgical prosection in a traditional anatomical curriculum: Tübingen's Sectio chirurgica. Annals of Anatomy, 192, 349–354.