Integrated Teaching Strategy in Human Anatomy from Medical Students’ Perspectives

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Introduction: Human Anatomy teaching requires connecting morphological knowledge with situations of application. Integrating active methodologies and three-dimensional resources may offer different ways to use what has been learned.

Objective: To explore medical students’ perceptions of a teaching strategy integrating active methodologies for Human Anatomy learning.

Methods: A descriptive qualitative study was conducted with students from an intervention group that received ten weeks of Case-Based Learning, Team-Based Learning, and Self-Directed Learning. Of 25 students, 12 were selected through purposive maximum-variation sampling, considering individual change in global clinical competence on the Mini-Clinical Evaluation Exercise and variation by sex; ten participated in two focus groups. Sessions were audio-recorded and complemented by anonymous individual written syntheses. A hybrid deductive-inductive thematic analysis was conducted.

Results: Five themes were identified: clinical application of anatomical knowledge; learning through feedback, error, and interaction; three-dimensional visualization as support for study; perceived complementarity and differentiated preferences; and implementation conditions. Participants assigned different value to the methodologies and described relationships among them.

Conclusions: Students perceived that the three methodologies fulfilled related functions within the same teaching strategy, although they expressed different preferences. These findings describe students’ perceptions and do not demonstrate objective improvements in learning or clinical competence.

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2026-10-22

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Bailón-Mieles J, Drogo C. Integrated Teaching Strategy in Human Anatomy from Medical Students’ Perspectives. Educación Médica Superior [Internet]. 2026 Oct. 22 [cited 2026 Oct. 25];40. Available from: https://ems.sld.cu/index.php/ems/article/view/5377

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