Liu He; Congli Zhu; Yueshan Lei; Chengjun Hu; Qin Pan; Yan Tang; Yihao Tian & Yong Zheng

Human Anatomy is the first medical specialization course for students of clinical medicine and cultivates the virtues of medical students, helping them to establish the humanitarian values. Therefore, integrating humanistic values education into the course of human anatomy is crucial. In anatomy courses for clinical students, online previews, group-based clinical problem- based learning, and theoretical lectures are used in anatomical education which is integrated with extracurricular activities for the education of human values, such as classical medical stories, group-based humanistic value cultivation, a memorial ceremony for "silent mentors", the morphological drawing and basic experimental skills competitions, and public welfare activities. After a year of implementation and investigation analysis, it was shown that students had a higher willingness to participate in the curriculum activities in this blended learning system, and these activities could stimulate students' interest in learning, which is beneficial to the cultivation of professional and humanistic values.

KEY WORDS: Human anatomy; Human value cultivation; Blended leaning; Extracurricular activities.

HE, L.; ZHU, C; LEI, Y.; HU, C.; PAN, Q.; TANG, Y.; TIAN, Y. & ZHENG, Y. Humanistic value development through extracurricular activities in anatomical education. Int. J. Morphol., 42(4):1119-1124, 2024.