Anatomical Sciences Education

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Editorial Board and Table of Contents	534
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History of discovering the facial nerve supply and neuroanatomy education today: Rudimentary details, controversies, and intricate connections	97
Chinese anatomy educators' perceptions of blended learning in anatomy education: A national survey in the post‐COVID‐19 era	91
Show them what they can't see! An evaluation of the use of customized 3D printed models in head and neck anatomy	61
Measuring health professional students' willingness to use AI chatbots in learning: A fuzzy‐set qualitative comparative analysis	57
Departing from standard practices: Strategic application of value engineering in the anatomy laboratory to enhance formaldehyde extraction using high‐impact, low‐cost, and low‐maintenance solutions	51
Empathy and cultural humility: Caribbean medical students' experience in Taiwan's Silent Teacher family interviews	47
Predicting performance in a doctor of physical therapy gross anatomy course based on an exploratory factor analysis of the anatomical self‐efficacy instrument	44
Developing 3D models using photogrammetry for virtual reality training in anatomy	43
Histology as a paradigm for a science‐based learning experience: Visits by histology education spirits of past, present, and future	42
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Game on! Student‐designed anatomy games using design‐based research	39
The happiness question: A study of the subjective well‐being of medical students during clinical clerkship anatomy sessions	38
Handheld three‐dimensional scanning in medical education: Feasibility of student‐generated donor‐based digital 3D models	38
Commemoration of body donors in a religiously diverse society: A tale of two Korean medical schools	34
Donor memorialization practices at religious institutions in the United States	34
A comparison of pre‐ and post‐clinical education learning preferences among medical students who elected to dissect compared to those who did not during the COVID‐19 pandemic	34
Anatomy as embodied resistance in an age of digital abstraction	33
Three‐dimensional printing in anatomy education: Is it similarly useful for teaching of all anatomical regions and structures?	31
21st Annual Meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Clinical Anatomists (ANZACA)	30
A librarian's view of APA PsycTests, a database for psychological tests and measures	30
Teaching respect for body donors: A US medical student perspective	29
Graduate anatomy education: How are we training the future generations of anatomy educators?	28
Lessons learnt: Perceptions of health sciences students of blended anatomy education at Stellenbosch University during and after the COVID ‐19 pandem	27

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Student perceptions of remote versus on‐campus gross anatomy laboratories during COVID‐19	25
Motivational factors, attitudes, and knowledge about the cadaveric body donation program among body donors in Myanmar	24
Turning AI hallucinations into scaffolds for morphologic reasoning: A pilot randomized trial of prompt‐guided virtual microscopy learning during a fo	23
3D wildlife skull models for wildlife veterinary training	23
Effect of peer facilitation in anatomy small group curriculum on academic performance and retention: A pilot study	22
Citossina: A web‐based application integrating virtual and augmented realities for inclusive Cell Biology education	22
Transforming histology students from passive lecture listeners into active lecture learners	22
Exploring the impact of virtual reality anatomy training on preparing biomedical illustrators for drawing anatomical structures	21
Intentional grouping and team building within the gross anatomy laboratory	20
Naked eye three‐dimensional teaching assistant system applied to undergraduate medical imaging education: A pilot study	20
Does dissection influence weight bias among doctor of physical therapy students?	20
Anatomy beyond the pandemic: A Q‐methodology study exploring student perceptions toward a hybrid curriculum	20
The impact of neural development research on understanding neural stem cells and human nervous system development	19
Job prospects and career pathways for human anatomy graduates from the University of Otago: Implications for student support and professional development	19
Education Abstracts	19
Show Me the Brain!!: A modern approach to neuroanatomy education	18
The longitudinal development of low‐academic performance medical students' key self‐regulated learning processes during a basic sciences nervous system block using a combined diary intervention	18
Trauma‐informed bequeathed body donor meeting sessions: A guide for creating a supportive and humanistic anatomy laboratory	18
Prior anatomy experience among medical students: What difference does it make?	18
Activating teaching philosophy statements: A call to action for anatomy educators	17
Israeli medical faculties' response to the COVID‐19 crisis vis‐à‐vis anatomical education: The cultivation of future academic leadership—A national mixed‐methods study	17
The current state of anatomy education in United States doctor of physical therapy programs	17
The current status of body donation in China and the influences of traditional culture: A systematic review	17
Gaze and hand behaviors during haptic abilities testing—An update to multimedia learning theory	17
Effect of choice of instruction language on anatomy learning outcomes	17
A new classmate in anatomy education: 3D anatomical modeling medical students’ engagement on learning through self‐prepared anatomical models	16
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Current trends in anatomy course characteristics across US physician assistant programs	15
Uncovering the benefits of a multimodal intervention centered around plastinates in initial anatomy education via thematic analysis of personal reflections of medical students	15
Open‐source large language models in medical education: Balancing promise and challenges	15
Faculty retirements will likely exacerbate the anatomy educator shortage	15
Creating a novel 3D ‐printed model for teaching pelvic floor anatomy	15
Editorial Board and Table of Contents	15
Día de Muertos: A confluence of gross anatomy, culture, and spirituality	14
Augmented reality for teaching undergraduate human anatomy: An educators' perspective	14
How students discern anatomical structures using digital three‐dimensional visualizations in anatomy education	14
Update on the state of the anatomy educator shortage	14
Learning in context: Undergraduate students' knowledge and the content retention of anatomy between discipline‐specific and integrated course approaches	14
Medical students' examinations during the pandemic: Performance and perceptions of anatomy teaching and learning before, during, and after COVID ‐19	14
Analysis of the ethical issues in authorship of collaborative research. Observations inspired by the historical case study of Gerard L. Blaes' (Blasius) claim to sole authorship of ‘Anatome medullae s	14
The Global Neuroanatomy Network: A new repository of open educational resources	14
Blended and digital approaches in histology and pathology teaching: A scoping review	14
The effectiveness of immersive virtual reality as a student‐centered tool for learning neuroanatomy: A single‐blind randomized controlled trial with physiotherapy students	14
Integrating yoga into anatomy and clinical medicine education: A holistic approach to learning	13
The rise of ChatGPT: Exploring its potential in medical education	13
Anxiety, emotions, and thoughts of veterinary medicine students during their first visit to the dissection room	13
Editorial Board and Table of Contents	12
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Education Abstracts	12

Editorial Board and Table of Contents	12
Clinical anatomy remote learning: A mixed methods analysis of learning outcomes and student perceptions	12
Comparison between digital and physical anatomical specimens in a formative near‐peer OSPE : Performance and perceptions in first‐year medical studen	12
Narrative inquiry for beginners: A practical guide for health professions education researchers	11
Comparing assisting technologies for proficiency in cardiac morphology: 3D printing and mixed reality versus CT slice images for morphological understanding of congenital heart d	11
The impact of an immersive virtual reality anatomy lab for informal science education	11
A comparison of student perspectives on body donation across healthcare professional programs: From prosection‐ to dissection‐based curricula	11
“A lot of it is about feel”: The promise of sensory ethnography for anatomical education research	11
Editorial Board and Table of Contents	11
Body donor programs in Australia and New Zealand: Current status and future opportunities	11
Environmental sustainability in anatomy: A call for action	11
Application of augmented reality models of canine skull in veterinary anatomical education	11
Application of artificial intelligence‐generated clinical cases in case‐based learning of histology and embryology	11
“The tactile realness of ‘life’ is hitting me in the face”: Unprompted student reflections of dissection using formalin‐ and Thiel‐embalmed donors	11
Do religious and cultural considerations militate against body donation? An overview and a Christian perspective	11
NeuroTwister : Gamified learning to teach cross‐sectional neuroanatomy to medical students	11
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Reimagining human dissection in preclinical medical education using studio‐based learning: A retrospective pilot study	10
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“Lives and times”: The case for qualitative longitudinal research in anatomical sciences education	10
“Don't fix the fumes but compromise the learning”: Response to the letter by Matthew J. Zdilla: “Sound off: Noise in the gross‐anatomy laboratory”	10
Impacts of body donor non‐anonymization on students' educational and humanistic development: A systematic review	10
Implementing virtual reality technology to teach medical college systemic anatomy: A pilot study	10
Editorial Board and Table of Contents	10
Immersive virtual reality and augmented reality in anatomy education: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	10
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Exploring body donation communication with large language models: Accuracy, readability, and ethical considerations	10
From classroom to clinic: Evaluating the educational utility of two Thiel embalming methods	10
“Preparing them for the profession”: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of anatomy educators coping with complexity in the United Kingdom curriculum	9
A gamified resource for learning anatomy terminology aids retention	9
Dissection versus prosection by anatomical region: Evaluating a regional group dissection curriculum in medical education	9
Implementation of plastinated specimens in a Doctor of Physical Therapy human anatomy curriculum	9
Radiology for anatomy educators: Success of an online, 2‐day course for radiology training	9
Are neuroanatomy multimedia resources effective in improving medical students' understanding of structural and functional neuroanatomy? A systematic review	9
Virtual sketching‐based dental anatomy module improves learners' abilities to use computer‐aided design to create dental restorations and prostheses	9
The simulation paradox: Does perfecting virtual anatomy risk imperfecting professional empathy?	9
Education Abstracts	9
Survey sabotage: Insights into reducing the risk of fraudulent responses in online surveys	9
“Hands‐On” white matter anatomy: Using Air Anatomy gestures and tractography on simple brain sections to enhance teaching of white matter directions	9
Personalization above anonymization? A role for considering the humanity and spirituality of the dead in anatomical education	9
Evaluating group dynamics through peer assessment during a global student collaboration of interprofessional healthcare education: A longitudinal study across 33 universities	9
Teaching human anatomy before during and after COVID‐19 pandemic: A longitudinal study on kinesiology students' performance, cognitive load, and congruent embodied learning	9
A pilot study of the anatomical self‐efficacy instrument for clinical clerkships ( ASEI ‐ CC )	9
The road to best practices in body donation	8
Ceremonial removal of body donor remains along with commemoration of body donors at Wayamba University of Sri Lanka according to Buddhist rituals: A reverential tribute	8
Virtual reality in nursing anatomy education: Benefits and implementation considerations	8
A pilot study exploring the effectiveness of binaural beats at reducing anxiety associated with cadaveric dissection	8
Promoting metacognition in an allied health anatomy course	8
A review of the ethical considerations for the use of 3D printed materials in medical and allied health education and a proposed collective path forward	8
Comparing the outcomes of the technology‐enhanced learning of sectional anatomy with and without preceding demonstrations: A study about the worked‐example effect in anatomy education	8
AI's ability to interpret unlabeled anatomy images and supplement educational research as an AI rater	8
Marian Diamond: Creator of an enriched environment for future neuroscience educators	8
Prospective comparative study on enhancing geometrical mental representation and anatomical learning in medical students through modeling clay as an assessment tool	8
Essential embryology for the Canadian pathologists’ assistant	8
A limited global perspective on what makes anatomical public engagement good or bad	8
A picture's worth a thousand words: Enhancing qualitative data collection with rich pictures	8
Legislative harmonization for body donation in mainland China: A call for national reform	8
Enhancing learning performance and soft skills development through body painting in human anatomy education	8
How human anatomy is being taught in entry‐level occupational therapy programs in the United States	8
Measuring students' perceptions of virtual reality for learning anatomy using the general extended technology acceptance model for E‐learning	8
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The importance of mentorship for early career neuroanatomists: A historical analysis from the University of Michigan	7
Unveiling disparity: A call to action for gender diversity in anatomy journal editorial teams	7
Enhancing dermatology education through gross anatomy: A missed opportunity in medical curricula	7
A novel nerve block and anatomy workshop for emergency medicine residents: A pilot study	7
Interactive audio human organ model combined with team‐based learning improves the motivation and performance of nursing students in learning anatomy and physiology	7
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Enhancing exam question quality in medical education through bootstrapping	7
Correction to Emerging trends on the anatomy teaching reforms in the last 10 years: Based on VOSviewer and CiteSpace	7
Anatomy at the threshold: Teaching the human body in a hybrid age	7
Is artificial intelligence getting better at anatomy? A two‐year review of ChatGPT 's free public versions	7
Effects of tablet‐based drawing and paper‐based methods on medical students' learning of gross anatomy	7
Doing more with less: Realistic stereoscopic three‐dimensional anatomical modeling from smartphone photogrammetry	7
Student‐authored expressions of gratitude as an alternative approach to ceremonial body donor commemoration: An experience from a New Sri Lankan Medical Faculty	7
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Responding to the healthcare workforce shortage: A scoping review exploring anatomical pathologists' professional identities over time	7
Macro and micro ethics in fetal and embryological collections: Exploring the paradigms of informed consent among Australian education‐focused stakeholders	7
High resolution images and 3D models of the root canal anatomy enhance reflective reasoning in dental students. A qualitative and quantitative assess	7
IFAA Recommendations for good practice for the donation and anatomical study of human remains (revised 2026)	7

The future of anatomy teaching post‐pandemic: An academic viewpoint	7
Promoting more future‐ready anatomy education after the Covid‐19 pandemic: A scoping review	6
A video dissection guide for the en bloc extraction of the human central nervous system	6
A survey on the teaching of introductory nervous system content in undergraduate courses	6
Effects of the individual three‐dimensional printed craniofacial bones with a quick response code on the skull spatial knowledge of undergraduate medical students	6
Anatomical Sciences Education Vol. 18, Issue S1, 2025 Cover Image	6
Sourcing and utilization of bodies of the deceased for medical education and research: An examination of West African universities	6
Advancing the anatomical self‐efficacy instrument for predicting anatomy performance	6
A preliminary comparison of bellringer performance across three visual modalities for the assessment of anatomy knowledge	6
Beyond knowledge: Cultivating noncognitive skills and attributes through anatomy education	6
Education Abstracts	6
Comparative evaluation of radiological anatomy knowledge and accuracy of ChatGPT ‐5, Gemini 2.5, and Grok 4 across normal and thinking modes	6
#Anatomynotes: A temporal content analysis of anatomy education posts on Instagram	6
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Comparison of examination performance and test anxiety during bell‐paced and self‐paced gross anatomy laboratory examinations	6
Transfer of learning in histology: Insights from a longitudinal study	6
Correction to “The rise of ChatGPT: Exploring its potential in medical education”	6
Emerging trends on the anatomy teaching reforms in the last 10 years: Based on VOSviewer and CiteSpace	6
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Editorial Board and Table of Contents	6
Effects of digital escape room versus traditional review sessions with individual or team participation on medical student motivation and short‐term knowledge	6
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Instagram Reels improve students' knowledge, motivation, perception, and satisfaction with anatomy and physiology	6
The importance of science communication and public engagement to professional associations	6
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Turkish anatomists' preferences to continue teaching after death and how it is impacted by their religious beliefs	5
Introducing virtual microscopy at the University of Ghana during the COVID ‐19 pandemic—Identifying and overcoming obstacles in a low‐resource learni	5
The combined effects of an anatomy program integrating drawing and gamification on basic psychological needs satisfaction among sport sciences students: Results of a natural experiment	5
Editorial Board and Table of Contents	5
Enhancing histology education through a multimodal approach: Integrating digital annotation, manual drawing, and histological batik design	5
Body donation under Italy's recent legal reforms: A cross‐sectional study of attitudes, beliefs, and educational gaps among medical students and faculty	5
Expanding worldviews on psychometric analysis of measurement tools in health professions education and research	5
Learning functional human anatomy with a new interactive three‐dimensional digital tool	5
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The globalization of neuroscience education	5
Further considerations on the international transfer of donated bodies: The environmental impact	5
From guillotine to dissection table—First insights into the Breslau institute of anatomy during the Nazi period	5
An analysis of the relationship of “the Mozart effect” with BDNF levels in anatomy education	5
Exploring response process validity of uncertainty tolerance scales implemented among health professions students	5
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Faith and facts: Exploring the intersection of religion and science among anatomy educators	5
Comparing the emotional experiences of students in similar dissection‐ and prosection‐based medical gross anatomy courses: A mixed‐methods study	5
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Does viewing pre‐lab dissection summary videos correlate with student performance outcomes in medical gross anatomy?	5
“Spine to the future”—A narrative review of anatomy engagement	5
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Everyone can draw: An inclusive and transformative activity for conceptualization of topographic anatomy	5
Student and staff experiences of interactive digital models when learning animal anatomy	5
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The use of artificial intelligence to detect students' sentiments and emotions in gross anatomy reflections	5
Student's perspectives of inclusive practices in anatomy education	5
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Doctor of physical therapy learner perspectives on using a novel card game to reinforce musculoskeletal clinical anatomy: A retrospective case study	5
Creating new embryological models for teaching cardiac development in embryology	5
Factors correlated with body donation acceptance in Hunan Province in China: A combined retrospective and cross‐sectional analysis	5
Anatomical Sciences Education Vol. 17, Issue 7, 2024 Cover Image	4
Fine‐tuning the standard setting of objective structured practical examinations in clinical anatomy	4
Evaluating the effectiveness of technology‐assisted learning versus traditional methods in histology education: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	4
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Investigating the status of whole‐body donation across the United States of America	4
Early practice makes histology masters: The use of a formative assessment quiz to prepare histology learners for a high‐stakes final examination	4
Lessons learned from conducting assessments in radioanatomy courses on learning management systems	4
The relationship between body donation and attitudes toward death and altruism in Changsha City in China	4
On creation, pneumothorax, death, and the breath of God	4
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Anatomical Sciences Education Vol. 17, Issue 5, 2024 Cover Image	4
Journal recommended guidelines for survey‐based research	4
Twenty years on: The rationale and use of the clinical cross‐sectional orientation in neuroanatomy	4
Game‐based learning session on gastrointestinal tract histology	4
Unload the load: Optimizing anatomy instruction with cognitive load theory	4
Validating instructional design and predicting student performance in histology education: Using machine learning via virtual microscopy	4
Chaotic fun! Promoting active recall of anatomical structures and relationships using the Catch‐Phrase game	4
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The Clinical Anatomy Fellowship: Revolutionizing curricular experiences for faculty and students	4
Exploring the relationship between entertainment and education in anatomy public engagement: A qualitative examination of anatomists' perspectives	4
Students with prior anatomy experience start out stronger in medical school gross anatomy	4
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Evaluating AI‐powered text‐to‐image generators for anatomical illustration: A comparative study	4
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Projection of realistic three‐dimensional photogrammetry models using stereoscopic display: A technical note	4
Profiting from public dissection: A new era of unethical practices	4
Are stereotypes in decline? The portrayal of female anatomy in e‐learning	4
Flipped classroom assisted by Rain Classroom for anatomy practical classes: Challenges and opportunities of anatomy education	4
Supporting collaborative dissection through the development of an online wiki positively impacts the learning of veterinary anatomy	4
Medical Jargon: A game‐based anatomy and physiology review for high school students in a summer pathway program	4
Online anatomical images are an effective resource to improve knowledge acquisition and practical exam performance in gross anatomy	4
First patient project: Engaging pathology through the donor dissection experience and its role in professionalism	4
Emotional preparedness for human body donor dissection in premedical education: A pilot program evaluation	3
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Cooperative learning in anatomy: Comparing virtual avatars and human specimens	3
We ought to discuss the social construction of cadavers: Here's why and how	3
Exploring reliable photogrammetry techniques for 3D modeling in anatomical research and education	3
Dissecting human anatomy learning process through anatomical education with augmented reality: AEducAR 2.0, an updated interdisciplinary study	3
The freedom to teach (at the best)	3