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- ItemEmpowering human anatomy education through gamification and artificial intelligence: An innovative approach to knowledge appropriation(WILEY, 2023) Castellano, Monica Stambuk; Contreras-McKay, Ignacio; Neyem, Andres; Farfan, Emilio; Inzunza, Oscar; Ottone, Nicolas E.; del Sol, Mariano; Alario-Hoyo, Carlos; Alvarado, Macarena Soto; Tubbs, R. ShaneGamification has appeared as an alternative educational methodology to traditional tools. Specifically, in anatomy teaching, multiple technological applications have emerged in response to the difficulties of accessing cadaveric material; however, there is insufficient information about the effects of these applications on the performance achieved by students, or about to the best way to adapt learning to meet their educational needs. In this study, we investigated how teaching human anatomy through a mobile gamified technological tool containing recommendation systems can be combined with a virtual assistant to improve the learning and academic performance of medical students in the Anatomy Department at the Universidad de La Frontera in Temuco, Chile and the Anatomy Department at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile. In total, 131 students participated in the experiment, which was divided into two case studies. The main findings led to the conclusion that gamified components support students in learning anatomy. In addition, the predictions and recommendations provided by the virtual assistant enabled the academic aspects that the students needed to improve to be extracted adequately. Future work is expected to support adaptive learning by incorporating new artificial intelligence in education elements that can generate personalized scenarios for studying anatomy based on the application.
- ItemStereology of the Human Thyroid Gland(SOC CHILENA ANATOMIA, 2011) Guillermo Salgado, A.; Vasquez, Belgica; del Sol, MarianoThe thyroid gland is a an extensive, medium and symmetrical endocrine gland situated on the anterior side of the neck at the lower third and the upper third junction. The thyroid follicle is the functional and structural unit of the thyroid gland. Follicles are separated from each other by narrow interfollicular connective tissue. Stereo logical values of follicular, parafollicular and colloid containing follicles have been observed in experimental animal models. The aim of this study was to determine the existence of a stereological pattern in the human thyroid gland defined by age and sex. A sample of six human thyroid glands of adult males with no history of thyroid disease or disorder obtained from non fixed human cadavers; of these cadavers the gland was removed and processed for thyroid follicle density (21.09 mm(2)/mm(3)), follicular cell number density (10.81 x 10(5) cells/mm(3)) and parafollicular (1.81 x 10 cells/mm(3)). With the average gland volume (21.3 mm(3)) we determined the total number of follicular cells (230.22 x 10(5)) and parafollicular (38.33 x 10(5)). The number of follicles per mm (2) (46.18 follicles/mm(2)) was also determined. Prior information and knowledge of numerical values and normal stereological proportions provides excellent parameters for determining hyper or hypotrophic endemic or exogenous alterations leading to stratification of certain disorders which was already observed in experimental models where differences amongst models were significant.