The status of anatomy education in scope of the national core education program 2020: The case of Turkey

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Emre Atay
Abdülkadir Bilir
Tolga Ertekin

Abstract

Objective: Many branches of science are constantly changing and developing according to the innovations and the requirements of the era. Developments and medical information, especially in the field of medicine, renew itself every year. In this study, we aimed to analyze comparatively the place of anatomy education, which has an important place in undergraduate medical education, in the National Core Education Program (NCEP)-2020.


Material and Methods: In this study, the categories of basic medical practices in NCEP-2020, clinical symptoms/findings/situations, core diseases/clinical problems and the relationship between learning levels and anatomy education were evaluated one by one. Parameters were expressed in percentile using a descriptive statistical method. There are 157 Basic Medical Practices in 9 sub-categories (A-I) within the scope of NCEP-2020.


Results: It was determined that 48 of these were related to anatomy education. The number of basic medical practice was mostly in the E sub-category (n=23, 47.92%). The second sub-category with the highest number of basic medical practices was determined as B (n=16, 33.33%).


Conclusion: One of the important conclusions we have reached within the scope of the study is that NCEP-2020 has an important place in terms of scope in determining, developing and standardizing the educational curricula of medical faculties.

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Atay, E., Bilir, A., & Ertekin, T. (2021). The status of anatomy education in scope of the national core education program 2020: The case of Turkey. Medical Science and Discovery, 8(8), 465–469. https://doi.org/10.36472/msd.v8i8.583
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Received 2021-07-26
Accepted 2021-08-09
Published 2021-08-17

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