USE OF INTERACTIVE EDUCATIONAL TOOLS IN TEACHING HUMAN ANATOMY

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Abstract. The challenges of the education sector caused by the pandemic of COVID-19, and in Ukraine by war, will have a long-term impact on the system, approach and principles of teaching. Primary institutions were forced to switch to distance or mixed forms of education, which definitely created certain difficulties, in particular for the medical education. Under such conditions, an important task of the higher school has become to ensure the coexistence of different learning approaches – traditional and innovative. Knowledge of human anatomy, which forms the basis for the formation of the clinical thinking of a future specialist, is integral to the training of a future doctor. An important component of the competency-based approach when conducting human anatomy classes is the introduction and use of the possibilities of modern interactive learning tools. One of the criteria for choosing the optimal platform for teaching was its availability, which was determined by the possibility to launch it on existing technical equipment (computers, touch panels), as well as the cost of the software. Because of the possibility of web-version use and the absence of mandatory registration, our choice for the skeletal system studying was free online platform – Anatomy Standard. To supplement knowledge about the muscular system, taking into account the relative availability (inexpensive subscription) and wide functionality, our choice was the solution from Visible Body’s Human Anatomy. An irreplaceable component in performing human anatomy is the experience of dissection of anatomical structures. The most informative interactive addition to this technique is the solution of Anatomage company, but its cost and lack of local support services forced us to search for more affordable programs. Our choice was the complex “Anatomy & physiology revealed 3.0: an interactive cadaver dissection experience”, which allows you to study the layer-by-layer structure of the body using real anatomical sections as an example. The experience of interactive learning tools use in teaching human anatomy shows that even with small costs, using the strengths of each application, allows students to get more detail information about human body structure, promotes faster learning of the material and improves the level of students’ knowledge.