Teaching Histology Using Self-Directed Learning Modules (SDLMs) in a Blended Approach.

Introduction: New technologies like virtual microscopy have revolutionized histology education. However, first-year students often require additional assistance with virtual slides. Online self-directed learning modules (SDLMs) were developed to provide such support to learners by offering them short instructional videos that are uploaded to YouTube and the instructional website.

Interactive Lecture in the Dissection Hall: Transforming Passive Lecture into a Dynamic Learning Experience.

Traditionally, cadaver dissection and didactic lectures have formed the mainstay of teaching gross anatomy, but, apathy of the learners toward didactic lectures and reduction in the time allotted for teaching anatomy have necessitated adoption of interactive teaching methods that require lesser student contact time. In this study, for two consecutive years, first-year medical students were taught selected gross anatomy topics using Interactive Lecture in the Dissection Hall (ILDH). Instead of discarding the traditional methods, ILDH combined the two into a single, cohesive, interactive session, to teach the topic through multiple, short, segments of lecture alternating with interactive demonstration on the specimen.