An analysis of the educational value of low-fidelity anatomy models as external representations

Anatomical Sciences Education

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 256-263

  Chan, Lap Ki ^a   Cheng, Maurice M W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Anatomy education; Anatomy teaching; Body painting; Clay models; Low fidelity simulation; Modeling and simulation

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; EDUCATION; HUMAN;

ANATOMY; HUMANS; MODELS, ANATOMIC;

EID: 80052689733     PISSN: 19359772     EISSN: 19359780     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ase.239     Document Type: Article

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