Application of 3D printing models in undergraduate medical imaging teaching
10.3760/cma.j.issn.2095-1485.2017.09.010
- VernacularTitle:3D打印模具在本科医学影像学教学中的应用
- Author:
Songtao AI
;
Yang QU
;
Xindong FAN
;
Minjun DONG
;
Liao WANG
;
Fei YANG
;
Xiaofeng TAO
- Keywords:
Three-dimensional printing;
Undergraduate medical education;
Medical models;
Medical imaging
- From:
Chinese Journal of Medical Education Research
2017;16(9):904-908
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective To evaluate the effect of 3D printing models applied to Medical Imaging Di-agnosis Undergraduate Teaching. Methods Students in the year 2012/2013 of Shanghai Jiao Tong Univer-sity School of Medicine stomatology specialty were chosen for this study, including 38 students in the exper-imental group (2013) and 40 students in the control group (2012). All of them were taught by the same group of teachers, including 28 core curriculum hours and 5 practice class hours. 3D printing technology with PPT was applied to the experimental group in the medical imaging diagnostic teaching, and conventional teaching including PPT and usual models in the control group. Medical students were given a test about cardiovascular system and tasked with completion of drawing hand and foot bones. Students in experimental group were also asked to complete a questionnaire about their experience. Results The questionnaire showed that 3D printing teaching molds with PPT was of great significance to improve the students interest in learning imaging anatomy, to meet the vast majority of students' learning requirements, and to achieve satis-factory results. The average scores of the circulatory system test in the experimental group were higher than that of the control group [(8.32 ±2.352) vs. (6.15 ±1.284), P<0.05)]. Students in experimental group per-formed better than students in the control group on the Locomotor system test [(6.81 ±1.347] vs. (3.84 ± 0.985), P<0.01]. Conclusions 3D printing mold combined with PPT teaching method can promote the med-ical imaging anatomy structure, learning effect and teaching quality, and has practical value in the under-graduate teaching of medical imaging diagnosis.
