COVID-19 modifications to a first year medical human anatomy course: Effects on student performance on summative examinations

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dc.contributor.authorMcNamara, John P.en
dc.contributor.authorNolan, Michael F.en
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-31T20:25:39Zen
dc.date.available2023-01-31T20:25:39Zen
dc.date.issued2023-01en
dc.date.updated2023-01-31T19:15:50Zen
dc.description.abstractThe COVID-19 (COVID) pandemic forced changes in how medical curricula are organized and delivered. In addition to disease mitigation strategies, other curricular modifications were required to maintain educational effectiveness and student and faculty safety. While these changes appear to be successful in their primary goal, their effect on learning and other important educational outcomes is less well understood. We describe changes to our anatomy course and describe their effects on summative examination scores. We compared anatomy examination scores from 4 years prior to COVID with scores from the 2 years following COVID mandated changes in an effort to determine the effectiveness of our course modifications. Examination scores for the first of four successive Blocks of instruction following the implementation of curricular changes demonstrated a lower mean score and greater range of scores than for the four pre-COVID years. Pre-COVID and post-COVID scores for Blocks II, III, and IV were comparable. Our results indicate that our changes to the anatomy curriculum did not prevent a performance decline during the first Block of instruction only. However, students were able to successfully adapt to these changes during the remainder of the course. We discuss factors that may have accounted for the Block I performance decline and call attention to changes within the larger curriculum that may have affected student performance.en
dc.description.versionPublished versionen
dc.format.extentPages 83-91en
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1002/ca.23965en
dc.identifier.eissn1098-2353en
dc.identifier.issn0897-3806en
dc.identifier.issue1en
dc.identifier.orcidMcNamara, John [0000-0002-5178-7750]en
dc.identifier.orcidNolan, Michael [0000-0002-9177-4276]en
dc.identifier.pmid36216782en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/113594en
dc.identifier.volume36en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherWileyen
dc.relation.urihttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36216782en
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/en
dc.subjectCOVID-19en
dc.subjectacademic performanceen
dc.subjectanatomyen
dc.subjectcurriculaen
dc.subject.meshHumansen
dc.subject.meshLearningen
dc.subject.meshAnatomyen
dc.subject.meshCurriculumen
dc.subject.meshEducation, Medical, Undergraduateen
dc.subject.meshEducational Measurementen
dc.subject.meshStudents, Medicalen
dc.subject.meshCOVID-19en
dc.titleCOVID-19 modifications to a first year medical human anatomy course: Effects on student performance on summative examinationsen
dc.title.serialClinical Anatomyen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
dc.type.otherJournal Articleen
dcterms.dateAccepted2022-10-06en
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