Introduction:

The importance of teaching anatomy on medical students its decreasing world wide, in the United States the number of hours has decreased in a 25 years lapse about 105 hours. This can be caused because of the lack of motivation from the students and the change on the way of teaching medicine and the high costs for the Universities of having dissection laboratories. It has been proposed that the schools of medicine have to add to the traditional model of teaching new technological elements with the objective of motivate and prepare students for their daily clinical practice. The objective of this study is to describe the opinion of the medical students about the utilization of technological resources on the anatomical teaching an the impact of this resources on their learning, and compare this findings with the international literature.

Material and method:

we created a questionnaire with 16 key points about the anatomy teaching, this questions were applied on 3 medical University’s (UNAM, La Salle, Anahuac), and we analyzed an compared the answers with the international literature.

Results:

We found that the medical student prefers the traditional model of teaching, and the use of blackboard to learn, also found that the model of teaching on this university’s is the technological approach, the 100% of the students used a web resource for their learning.

Conclusions:

The use of the technology for learning is uncontroversial, but in Mexico we are on a paradox because the student’s prefers the traditional model of teaching but the tendency is to the technological model, several studies have found that this paradox responds to the habituation and the commodity of the student with the traditional model of teaching.

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