NEW TECHNOLOGY TRENDS IN TEACHING HUMAN ANATOMY: THREE DIMENSIONAL ANATOMICAL MODELS OF THE ORBIT USING RADIOLOGICAL IMAGES

In recent years there has been an important evolution in the interaction with the environment and information. There are emerging technologies that cover different areas in which new tools are specifically developed like in engineering, sciences, medicine... It is one of the main trends in recent decades: analysing emerging preferences in education and studying which are the most impactful and with greater future consolidation. These trends include different applications, softwares and devices that revolutionise teaching compared to classical methods from the last century. This change also occurs in the field of Human Anatomy. It is an environment in which many new devices have recently been developed. Nowadays mobile phones, tablets, podcasts, videos and radiological images are used. There has been a revolution in the post-processing of these images allowing the creation of three-dimensional anatomical models. These are new tools that allow a better morphological comprehension, with special interest in areas such as the orbit (small structure formed by 4 walls and 7 bones). These devices allow the zooming, rotation and enlargement of the images, assuming an advance in the teaching of Human Anatomy, not only in the classrooms but also in the clinical practice.