title: Making education effective and fun: stations-based approach to teaching radiology and anatomy to third-year medical students.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  A hands-on stations-based approach to teaching anatomy to third-year medical students is used at Boston University. The goal of our study was to demonstrate that such an interactive, team-based approach to teaching anatomy would be well received and be helpful in recall, comprehension, and reinforcement of anatomy learned in the first year of medical school.
  
  
  METHODS
  Each radiology-anatomy correlation lab was focused on one particular anatomic part, such as skull base, pelvis, coronary anatomy, etc. Four stations, including a three-dimensional model, computer, ultrasound, and posters, were created for each lab. Informed consent was obtained before online survey dissemination to assess the effectiveness and quality of radiology-anatomy correlation lab. This study was approved by our institutional institutional review board, and data were analyzed using a χ(2) test.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Survey data were collected from February 2010 through March 2012. The response rate was 33.5%. Overall, the highest percentage of students (46%) found the three-dimensional model station to be the most valuable. The computer station was most helpful in recall of the anatomic principles from the first year of medical school. Regarding the quality of the anatomy lab, less than 2% of the students thought that the images were of poor quality or the material presented was not clinically relevant.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Our results indicate that an interactive, team-based approach to teaching anatomy was well received by the medical students. It was engaging and students were able to benefit from it in multiple ways.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Boston University Medical Center, 820 Harrison Avenue, FGH Building, 3rd Floor, Boston, MA 02118. Electronic address: aryarahul@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Rahul
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Arya
authors.forename: Trevor
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Morrison
authors.forename: Ann
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Zumwalt
authors.forename: Kitt
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Shaffer
mesh_terms: D000715:Anatomy / Q000193:education* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D001900:Boston; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction / Q000379:methods*; D004521:Educational Measurement / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011871:Radiology / Q000193:education* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*
keywords: Medical education; radiology anatomy lab; radiology clerkship; radiology rotation; resident teaching