Curricular changes: the impact on medical students knowledge of neuroanatomy.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Although neuroanatomy is considered an essential requirement in medical curriculum, its teaching has undergone many changes in recent years, with most medical schools starting to implement an integrated approach. The current paper describes the comparative evaluation of the neuroanatomy knowledge scores of medical students who attended two different pedagogic approaches of neuroanatomy in the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto. METHODS:Forty fourth-year medical students who attended a traditional stand-alone approach and 42 third-year medical students who attended an integrated approach completed a written test of knowledge. RESULTS:Although there were some significant differences, the results globally revealed no statistically significant difference between the neur

SUBMITTER: Arantes M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6969452 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature