Applying visual mapping techniques to promote learning in community-based medical education activities

BMC Medical Education

Syed Quazi Zahiruddin¹  Abhay M. Gaidhane¹  Sonali G. Choudhari²  Tripti Srivastava³  Vedprakash Mishra⁴  Priti Desai⁵ 

[1] Department of Community Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Wardha, Maharashtra, India;School of Epidemiology & Public Health, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences, Wardha, Maharashtra, India;Department of Community Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Wardha, Maharashtra, India;School of Epidemiology & Public Health, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences, Wardha, Maharashtra, India;School of Health Professions Education & Research, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences, Wardha, Maharashtra, India;Faculty Development Committee, Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE), Wardha, Maharashtra, India;NMC Nodal Centre for National Faculty Development, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Wardha, Maharashtra, India;Department of Physiology, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences (DU), Wardha, Maharashtra, India;Pro-Chancellor, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences, Wardha, Maharashtra, India;School of Health Professions Education & Research, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences, Wardha, Maharashtra, India;Department of Community Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Wardha, Maharashtra, India;

关键词: Visual mapping;    Mind map;    Concept map;    Community-based medical education;    Community medicine, teaching-learning;    Rural;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12909-021-02646-3

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundTeaching and learning Community-Based Medical Education (CBME) requires the active engagement of students in various activities to cover planned curricular content. CBME being multifaceted involves careful application and formation of links when attending to community health problems and public health issues. Students often depend on factual recall rather than ‘engaging in’, to counteract the broad and comprehensive nature of CBME. This study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of Visual mapping techniques as a learning tool in a CBME program for the subject Community Medicine and thereby assist medical undergraduate students in overcoming identified learning challenges.MethodologyAn interventional study was conducted where medical undergraduates were randomly assigned to two different groups (each group = 30). After sensitization, a broad theme was taught to both the groups as a part of community-based teaching (CBT), each week for a month. The students in the intervention group were given the assignment to draw visual maps using the mind mapping & concept mapping techniques, after each CBT session, while the control group had Question-Answer session with built-in discussion (Conventional method) by an equally qualified, experienced faculty with no mapping assignments. A surprise written examination was conducted on the topics taught, and scores of both the groups were compared. Feedback was obtained from the intervention group.ResultsMean score of the examination by the intervention group (29.85 ± 3.22) was significantly higher than and that of the control group (23.06 ± 4.09) (t = 7.14 and p < 0.05). The students shared that the assignment of drawing mind and concept maps for topics taught helped in attempting questions of the written examination by facilitating easy recall of the information learned. It aided to frame the answers to descriptive questions in a structured way with the use of keywords. However, identifying the concepts and establishing relationship between them was slightly challenging.Conclusion‘Visual mapping’ in the form of Mind and Concept mapping was found to be an effective learning tool for multifaceted CBME especially in promoting meaningful learning and facilitating rational thinking by the medical undergraduates.

【 授权许可】

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