(474.24) Knowledge of anatomical variants in teachers of private universities in Santiago de Chile

Poster Board Number: C24
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Pablo Nova Baeza (Universidad Andrés Bello), Juan Valenzuela (Universidad Andrés Bello), Marjorie Gold (Universidad Andrés Bello), Alejandro Bruna (Universidad Andrés Bello), Mathias Orellana (Universidad Andrés Bello)

Introduction
Human Anatomy is one of the pillars for the training of professionals in the health area, which generates a great challenge for the curricular profile of the teachers who teach these courses, this in relation to the different profiles proposed by each career of the health in which human anatomy is taught, where many times this must be at the service of curricular preferences and graduation profile of each career, hence well-prepared teachers both in normal anatomy and in anatomical variants can contribute in the anatomical and later clinical training of these students. If we talk about the knowledge of anatomical variations, remember that this is defined as a change in the normal anatomy that presents an incidence in the population of no more than 10%, since, if this incidence increases, the most appropriate term to define this condition is variability. anatomical.

Methodology
This descriptive-observational study searched through a questionnaire of eight questions, based on seven images taken from VH Dissector Pro plus a dichotomous question, which was applied to teachers of private universities in Santiago de Chile, where these They agreed to participate voluntarily through a google form. The data obtained were analyzed by the research group through the statistical method of Shapiro Wilk.

Results
After having surveyed 33 teachers, the results found were as follows: The percentage of the results obtained was that 0% of the participants obtained 7 points, 12% obtained 6 points, 15% obtained 5 points, 9% obtained 4 points, 36% obtained 3 points, 21% obtained 2 points, 3% obtained 1 point and 3% obtained 0 points. Regarding the gender of the participants, there was no statistically significant difference in the score obtained (p = 0.21). Finally, regarding the relationship between the score and the years of teaching experience in human anatomy, a statistically significant difference was not found in favor of teachers with more years of experience (p = 0.13).

Conclusion
In relation to the results found in this study, we can affirm that many of the surveyed teachers do not have the knowledge of anatomical variants proposed in a virtual corpse, which calls us to pay attention to the fact that teachers should refine this probability of anatomical variation in their study or curricular profile, which can allow that by having a greater management of these variations they can transmit them to their students and with this make not only normal anatomy important, since clinically it has been reported that there are different anatomical variables that could have an incidence in the clinical area in any age range.





Image of the abdomen showing an anatomical variant related to a renal artery.; Chest image where an anatomical variant is not found.