Análise do impacto da pandemia da COVID-19 no estudo prático da anatomia humana

Abstract

The study of Human Anatomy consists in analyzing the human body macroscopically and microscopically, being of great importance for health courses with the practical study with cadaveric pieces. However, the new Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), causing a respiratory infection, COVID-19, has spread rapidly around the world, causing the closure of countries and being declared a state of pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO). Thus, schools and universities were closed and students stayed at their homes, fulfilling their social isolation, thus affecting the activities in the Human Anatomy subjects in the courses that have this subject in their mandatory course load. Therefore, the present study aimed to evaluate how the pandemic affected the practical study of Human Anatomy at the Department of Morphology (DMORF) of the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB). The questionnaire containing images of cadaveric pieces from the DMORF collection was sent through Google Forms, aiming at the safety of both parties (researched and researcher), avoiding face-to-face contact. The research was carried out with 62 students who attend or have attended (hybrid or remote) or have already studied Human Anatomy (face-to-face). The analysis was done by dividing the students into four groups: the first group consisted of all the surveyed students (62 students), the second group consisted of those who studied in person (27 students), the third group consisted of those who studied in a hybrid way (remote and in person) (24 students), and the last group consisted of those who studied remotely (five students). The data indicated some difficulty in naming the left auricle of the heart, with an average of 74.9% of errors in the three analyses. On the other hand, the trachea was the structure that had the highest average recognition by the respondents, about 94.5%%. The students who studied remotely presented more difficulties in other questions besides the ones mentioned above. When comparing the numbers of those who studied in person and hybridly, the data show great similarity, indicating a minimal impact of the pandemic on the hybrid study mode (remote and in person), since the main methodology used by teachers in this model were inperson practices with anatomical parts and remote theoretical.