Our teaching methodology can be summarized as follows. Each practical lesson in the laboratory lasted about five hours, and involved an anatomy review of the body area to be palpated during the session. The review was followed by a description of different manipulative techniques and a practical demonstration performed by the professor. After the professor’s explanations, students had to practice the respective manipulation technique in pairs (one of them simulating a patient).
In order to do so, we provided each pair of students with a 4th generation iPod Touch device. Note that our application is still a prototype, and thus we cannot upload it to the AppStore, so it was pre-installed and pre-configured in each iPod.