“Learning Outcome Analysis of Preclinical MBBS Students Following Teaching by Anatomist and/ or Clinician.”

Introduction: In conventional curriculum anatomy is taught by an anatomist and the stress is teaching “clinically meaningful anatomy”. In certain parts of the world the teaching of anatomy is taken over by the clinicians. Evidence based studies, suggesting that clinicians can take over the role of basic science teachers are lacking. The present study was carried out to evaluate the performance of students when taught by anatomist or clinician. Methods: The study was conducted on 180 MBBS first year students. All the students were randomly divided into three groups. First group was taught by a faculty from anatomy, second group by faculty from Obstetrics and Gynaecology and third group by Anatomist after discussing with one of the faculty from Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Four lectures were taken on various topics of female reproductive anatomy with the help of multimedia and a pre and post test of same set of 10 MCQs of related topic was conducted. Difference in the post and pretest marks (in percentage) were compared statistically as a measure of effectiveness of resource person. Results: Group I attained a difference of 11.03±15.5%, group II 13.08±14.4% and group III 17.12±16.2% in gross anatomy part while a difference of 8.30±14.2%, 21.78±14.9% and 20.74±16.6% was obtained in clinical anatomy section respectively. Conclusion: The outcome analysis revealed that gross anatomy teaching was at par in each group but in clinical anatomy section groups taught by either clinician or after consulting clinician exhibited statistically better performance.