European Youth 3D Anatomical Modeling Platform

Background Three-dimensional(3D) anatomical modeling is a topic, which is increasingly important for all health professionals, then for all engineering sciences related to three-dimensional content. It is becoming progressively popular among young people with its large business volume that it can create in different sectors. Improving the basic skills and competencies in this field, which is among the focus of interest of young entrepreneurs such as health simulations, surgical scenarios, serious games and gamification, is essential for increasing the employability of young people. It is also important issue for Anatomy education, which is a fundamental priority and imperative for health science professionals with providing the knowledge to understand the physical exam, subsequent medical investigations, and how disease affects the human body. In many curricula there has been a trend away from full body cadaveric dissection due to increased curricular emphasis on early clinical exposure, the increasing costs of cadaveric laboratories, and the decreased curricular time due to the inclusion of new subjects in the health school. As a result, educational technologies have been used in the classroom to make the most efficient use of curricular time. Educators need to find new ways to teach anatomy in a way that is clinically relevant and sustainable. Even with the introduction of new methods such as problem- based learning, team-based learning, and the use of simulation when teaching medical students, the net effect has been limited. Health knowledge is expanding every day by geometrical progression but there is a limited learning time for the students. This calls for adoption of methods to make the lessons more compact and better use the students’ time. Anatomy education contains many similarities as well as differences according to the schools affiliated to the world and Europe. There are differences in methods and processes among educational institutions that have different views in each country and even within the country. With the experience of the Covid-19 pandemic, digitization and distance education methods have gained great importance in Anatomy education, along with many educational fields. The main aim of this project is to provide a multi-centered, and multidisciplinary platform of standard / personalized, virtual / physical 3D (dimensional) anatomical models in three countries that have adopted different education ecoles in Europe (Turkey, Italy and Czechia) and four universities (Hacettepe, Perugia and Charles universities - State, Lokman Hekim University - Private) and create a supportive and complementary materials that can be used in basic / clinical and surgical Anatomy training with these developed models. The participation of young people, who are interested in this field and working (can work) in different sectors, together with the academic