Interprofessional approach for teaching functional knee joint anatomy

Abstract: Profound knowledge in functional and clinical anatomy is a prerequisite for efficient diagnosis in medical practice. However, anatomy teaching does not always consider functional and clinical aspects. Here we introduce a new interprofessional approach to effectively teach the anatomy of the knee joint. The presented teaching approach involves anatomists, orthopaedists and physical therapists to teach anatomy of the knee joint in small groups under functional and clinical aspects. The knee joint courses were implemented during early stages of the medical curriculum and medical students were grouped with students of physical therapy to sensitize students to the importance of interprofessional work. Evaluation results clearly demonstrate that medical students and physical therapy students appreciated this teaching approach. First evaluations of following curricular anatomy exams suggest a benefit of course participants in knee-related multiple choice questions. Together, the interprofessional approach presented here proves to be a suitable approach to teach functional and clinical anatomy of the knee joint and further trains interprofessional work between prospective physicians and physical therapists as a basis for successful healthcare management

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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
Language
Englisch
Notes
Annals of anatomy. - 210 (2017) , 155-159, ISSN: 1618-0402

Event
Veröffentlichung
(where)
Freiburg
(who)
Universität
(when)
2019
Creator
Meyer, Jakob J.
Obmann, Markus M.
Giesler, Marianne
Schuldis, Dominik
Brückner, Ann-Kathrin
Strohm, Peter Christian
Sandeck, Florian
Spittau, Björn

DOI
10.1016/j.aanat.2016.10.011
URN
urn:nbn:de:bsz:25-freidok-1409841
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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