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Effect of concept mapping model on critical thinking skills of family medicine residents
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Abstract
Introduction: The practice of medicine needs the highest
possible skills in diagnosis and treatment. The best physicians think
critically through appropriate gathering and accurate interpretation of
information. Human beings are not natural critical thinkers; However,
these skills can be developed over a relatively short period with many
teaching strategies. Concept mapping (CM) is a very useful teaching
strategy in the development of active learning, utilizing applications and
analysis-based critical thinking skills.
Aim: This study aims to assess the effect of the concept mapping
strategy on the critical thinking skills of family medicine residents.Also,
to detect differences between the traditional teaching strategy and the
concept mapping strategy in improving the critical thinking skills.
Methods: This is a randomized controlled clinical trial
conducted on 100 family medicine residents aged between 26-28 years
to compare the effect of the traditional teaching strategy and the concept
mapping strategy in improving the critical thinking skills. All study
participants were submitted to 5 teaching sessions for 3 months.
Results: This study showed that critical thinking level was
improved significantly in both groups after intervention (p-value: 0.001
for both groups). This improvement was slightly more in the concept
mapping group (in the traditional teaching group, the mean and SD of
critical thinking level were 14.52±1.66 and 15.94±1.9 at pre- and postinterventional levels respectively, while in the concept mapping group,
they were 14.7±2.19 and 18.36±2.68 at pre- and post-interventional
levels respectively). This study also showed that there was no statistically significant difference between both groups regarding the
achievement grades (p-value: 0.288). However, the percentage of those
who gained excellent grades was 46% in the concept mapping group
versus only 34%in the traditional teaching group.
Conclusions: The concept mapping strategy was more effective
than the traditional teaching strategy in terms of improvement in the
critical thinking. Also, this study demonstrated that both teaching
strategies had the same effect on the participant`s achievement test
scores.