Hands-on brain slicing activity based on Gagné’s instructional model: A novel pedagogy for mastering neuroanatomical cross sections

The key paradigm of neuroanatomy education is enabling students to unstack the complex three-dimensional anatomy of a structure into multiple two-dimensional images. Organ slicing is one such pedagogy whereby students are actively involved in slicing the organ e.g.: brain in a way resembling CT / MRI sections. This method would therefore strengthen the visuospatial abilities of the students while interpreting neuro-radiological images in the future. We, at our institute, have designed a hands-on brain slicing activity and we wish to document it along with the associated cognitive processing principles involved in it.