The effective learning of spatio temporal concepts of human structure

The recent availability of increasingly powerful and user friendly computers is making a noticeable impact in the field of medical education. Over the past year, the power of the computer is being harnessed here in the field of anatomy to enable medical and dental students to learn the subject more effectively. Machines with excellent graphics, text and animation capabilities have made it possible to allow students to comprehend structural complexity as seen in gross anatomy or, temporal alterations of structure as seen in embryology by the use of computer based, tutorial style or self paced interactive style of learning. Positive student response to sample learning packages has encouraged the undertaking of courseware development for future use at computer workstations.