Pedro Hecht-López & Eduardo Parra-Villegas

In 2015, new technological resources were acquired for the Anatomy Laboratory of the recently established School of Medicine of the University of Tarapacá, after systematically reviewing innovative teaching materials. In parallel, teachers were trained to use this technology through a student-centered teaching-learning process. A SECTRA® digital dissection touch table and its complementary workstation (both connected via internet to the IDS7® portal), a Syndaver® synthetic cadaver that reproduces the physical and spatial characteristics of human macroscopic anatomy, a set of high fidelity Erler-Zimmer® 3D printed anatomical segments that reproduce small details of human cadaveric anatomy, and a collection of human bones prepared by our laboratory were used to provide traditional resources of the discipline. The teaching- learning process was through participatory activities such as: inverted class, problem-based learning, directed reading of scientific articles, digital dissection and review of digital topographic anatomy, prospection of synthetic and 3D printed anatomical models, review of radiological anatomy and a digitized cadaver using the VH Dissector® program installed on the SECTRA® table to orient the reviewed content towards its clinical utility. The final grade point averages were 5.55 in 2016, 5.32 in 2017, 5.24 in 2018, 5.69 in 2019, 5.99 in 2020, 6.22 in 2021 and 5.80 in 2022 on a scale of 1.0 to 7.0 equivalent to 79.29 %, 76.00 %, 74.86 %, 81.21 %, 85.57 %, 88.86 % and 82.86 %, respectively. Failure of the subject was 3.33 % in 2016 and then 2.63 %, 5.40 %, 3.33 %, 2.70 %, 0.00 % and 0.00 % successively. The teaching of anatomy through a combined approach, using new technological and didactic resources focused on the student, allows optimizing the student's performance, achieving a good final performance and with low failure rates of the subject.

KEY WORDS: Teaching; 3D anatomy; Digital dissection; Blended approach; Learning.

HECHT-LÓPEZ, P. & PARRA-VILLEGAS, E. Implementation of a clinical anatomy course using new digital and 3D resources through a blended approach, results following 7 years of teaching experience in a new medical career in Chile. Int. J. Morphol., 43(3):829-837, 2024.