Castillo López, José ManuelDíaz Mancha, Juan AntonioHeredia Rizo, Alberto MarcosFernández Seguín, Lourdes MaríaPolo Padillo, JuanDomínguez-Maldonado, GabrielMunuera Martínez, Pedro Vicente2018-01-252018-01-252014Castillo López, J.M., Díaz Mancha, J.A., Heredia Rizo, A.M., Fernández Seguín, L.M., Polo Padillo, J., Domínguez Maldonado, G. y Munuera Martínez, P.V. (2014). The Tarsal Bone Test: A Basic Test of Health Sciences Students' Knowledge of Lower Limb Anatomy. BioMed Research International, 1-6.2314-6141https://hdl.handle.net/11441/69574Objectives. The aim of the present study was to design an easy-to-use tool, the tarsal bone test (TBT), to provide a snapshot of podiatry students’ basic anatomical knowledge of the bones of the lower limb. Methods. The study included 254 podiatry students from three different universities, 145 of them were first-year students and 109 were in their fourth and final years. The TBT was administered without prior notice to the participants and was to be completed in 5 minutes. Results. The results show that 97.2% of the subjects (n = 247) correctly labelled all tarsal bones, while the other 2.8% (n =7) incorrectly labelled at least one bone, that was either the cuboid (7 times) or the navicular (6 times). Although only one fourth-year student inaccurately identified one bone, no significant differences in the distribution of the correct and incorrect responses were found between first and fourth-year students. Conclusions. The TBT seems to be a straightforward and easy-to-apply instrument, and provides an objective view of the level of knowledge acquired at different stages of podiatry studies.application/pdfengAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacionalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/tarsal bone test (TBT)podiatry students’ basic anatomical knowledgebones of the lower limbinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://doi.org/10.1155/2014/939163