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Using Mind Maps to Improve Medical Student Performance in a Pharmacology Course at Kunming Medical University.
Author(s):
1. Guo Ying: School of Basic Medical Sciences / Quality Monitoring and Assessment Center2, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan, China
2. Xie Jianping: Basic Medical Sciences, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan, ChinaLibrary, Yunnan Minzu University, Kunming, Yunnan, China
3. Luo Haiyun: School of Basic Medical Sciences / Quality Monitoring and Assessment Center2, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan, China
4. Li Xia: School of Basic Medical Sciences / Quality Monitoring and Assessment Center2, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan, China
5. Yang Jianyu: School of Basic Medical Sciences / Quality Monitoring and Assessment Center2, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan, China
6. Xuan Qun: School of Basic Medical Sciences, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan, China.
7. Yu Jianyun: Library, Yunnan Minzu University, Kunming, Yunnan, China
Abstract:
Objective: To determine whether students using mind maps would improve their performance in a final examination at the end of lecture-based pharmacology course. Study Design: A quasi-experimental study. Place and Duration of Study: Kunming Medical University, from September 2014 to January 2015. Methodology: One hundred and twenty-two (122) third year undergraduate medical students, starting a 48-hour lecturebased pharmacology course, volunteered to use mind maps as one of their study strategies (intervention group), while the remaining 100 students in the class continued to use their usual study strategies (control group) over the duration of the course. The performance of both groups in the final course examination was compared. Students in the intervention group also completed a questionnaire on the usefulness of mind maps during the course and in preparation for the final examination. Results: The students' performance of intervention group was superior to performance of the control group in all parts of a multi-modal final examination. For the multiple choice questions and comprehensive scores, average marks of 45.97 ±7.22 and 68.07 ±12.77, respectively were acquired by the control group, and 51.77 ±4.95 (p<0.01) and 80.05 ±7.54 (p<0.01), respectively by the intervention group. The median IQR scores for "filling in the blanks" questions, short answers questions and case analyses, were 6.00 (6.00), 8.00 (3.50), 8.75 (5.88), respectively for the control group, and were all significantly higher at 8.00 (4.00) (p=0.024), 10.00 (2.00) (p<0.001), and 11.00 (3.25) (p=0.002), respectively for the intervention group. Questionnaire responses showed that 95.45% thought that mind maps helped them to prepare more efficiently for the final exam; 90.91% believed that mind maps helped them to better understand all of pharmacology. Ninety-one percent also thought that mind maps would help them to better understand other disciplines, and 86.36% students would like the lecturers to utilize mind mapping as an alternative to conventional teaching formats, such as the use of Power Point. Conclusion: The addition of mind maps to students' study of pharmacology at Kunming Medical University improved their performance in all aspects of a multi-modal final examination.
Page(s): 404-408
DOI: DOI not available
Published: Journal: Journal of College of Physicians and Surgeons--Pakistan : JCPSP, Volume: 27, Issue: 7, Year: 2017
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