Vision organ tridimensional models, an innovation for Medical and Ophtalmological Education

Abstract

Introduction: three-dimensional models enhance the teaching-learning process. The organ of vision is part of the contents of the Medicine career and the Ophthalmology speciality. The knowledge of its morphology is vital to perform an adequate ophthalmologic clinical practice, with the exploration of the fundus inside as a window to observe and conjecture what happens in the related structures.

Objective: to elaborate three-dimensional models of the organ of vision and the fundus.

Methods: a development study was carried out in the Faculty of Medical Sciences of Manzanillo between January and December 2020, the sample consisted of 100 students to whom a survey was applied for validation.

Results: four models were made, one on the anatomy of the extrinsic musculature of the eye in wax, another illustrating the vascular anatomy in plaster on Cocos Nucifera and two half models of the fundus of the eye in wax. Most of the students surveyed considered the model as good in terms of quality, organization, feasibility and correspondence with both objectives and contents according to Higher Medical Education.

Conclusions: the elaboration of models as didactic-methodological means for teachers, aimed at medical students and Ophthalmology assistants and residents, provides tools to acquire practical skills and guarantees the appropriation and application of the essential nuclei of the useful contents on the organ of vision.