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Chung, Koh, Park, Song, Lee, Jeon, Cho, and Chung: A Guide Book for Children and Adolescents to Experience Anatomy and Clinics
Original Article

Korean J Phys Anthropol 2015;28(2):79-85.

Published online: 20 February 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.11637/kjpa.2015.28.2.79

A Guide Book for Children and Adolescents to Experience Anatomy and Clinics

Bum Sun Chung1, Seong-bae Koh2, Eun-mi Park2, Mi-Geum Song2, Seo-eun Lee2, Tae-ho Jeon2, Sook-kyoung Cho2, Min Suk Chung1

1Department of Anatomy, Ajou University School of Medicine

2Gwangju National Science Museum

Correspondence to: Min Suk Chung (Department of Anatomy, Ajou University School of Medicine) E-mail: dissect@ajou.ac.kr

Copyright © 2015 Korean Association of Physical Anthropologists

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to enable children and adolescents to experience anatomy and clinics. For the purpose, the ways to use the anatomy educational resources (comics, 3-dimensional images, and 2-dimensional images) and diagnostic tools (stethoscope, sphygmomanometer, pen light, and reflex hammer) were described in a guide book. Following the guide book, students experienced anatomy and clinics in a course of the science museum. They learned anatomy with the comics, then did virtual dissection with the 3-dimensional and 2-dimensional images. Sequentially, with the diagnostic tools, they listened to heart sound, measured blood pressure, and performed light reflex and knee jerk. Through this study, we have found that anatomy and clinics should be experienced pleasantly. The com-plimentary guide book is expected to be further improved in future, so as to achieve better experience at home, science museum, and school.

Keywords: Anatomy, Clinics, Experience, Education program, Computer software

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Fig. 1.
A feature of Korean guide for anatomy experience (left) and clinical experience (right).
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Fig. 2.
Anatomy tools for the experience. Easy anatomy (left), PDF file of 3-dimensional images (center), and browsing software of 2-di-mensional images (right).
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Fig. 3.
Video guide to explain how to examine heart sound using stethoscope. The Korean subtitle at the top delivers instruction for each step of experience.
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Fig. 4.
Students reading the anatomy comics and using the stetho-scope in the course, held in Gwangju National Science Museum, Korea.
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Table 1.
Correlation of the anatomy and clinical experiences with the requisite tools.
    Anatomy tools Clinical tools
Comics 3-dimensional images 2-dimensional images Stethoscope, Sphygmo- manometer Pen light Reflex hammer
Anatomy Visceral organs1 O O O      
experience Muscles2   O O      
  Heart sound O O   O    
Clinical experience Blood pressure O O   O    
Light reflex O       O  
experience Oral inspection O       O  
  Knee jerk O O       O

1 Stomach, lung, liver, spleen, kidney, gallbladder, and urinary bladder

2 Biceps brachii, pectoralis major, deltoid muscle, rectus abdominis, gluteus maximus, and gastrocnemius “O” mark means the anatomy and clinical experiences require the tools.

Table 2.
Remarks from the high school students, who attended the anatomy and clinical experiences, held in Gwangju National Science Museum, Korea.
Since the comics were used in the lecture instead of tedious texts, the course was less boring.
Thanks to the 3-dimensional and 2-dimensional images of cada-ver, I indirectly experienced the cadaver dissection which is not available to laypeople.
It was pleasing for me to repeat the anatomy experience at home with the free software.
The human anatomy and clinical medicine, which are interesting but not deeply taught in school, were learned.
The instruments used in clinical medicine became friendly to me: especially the stethoscope and sphygmomanometer.
I experienced clinical trials at first hand with my own body or mate's body as if I were a doctor.
The experience, which is related with the life science, was helpful in choosing my career.
Further experience using surgical instrument, mannequin, or hu-man blood might be intriguing.
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