Mukhopadhyay Kaushik, Mukherjee Sonali, Dhok Archana, Chatterjee Chandan, Ghosh Joya
Department of Pharmacology, ESIC Medical College, 23 Diamond Harbor Road, Joka, Kolkata, India.
Department of Biochemistry, JNMC, Wardha, India.
J Adv Med Educ Prof. 2019 Jul;7(3):118-122. doi: 10.30476/JAMP.2019.74920.
Ever-expanding medical literature demands successful amalgamation of huge information and clinical practice for budding doctors. This study aimed to find the effectiveness of the concept map, a novel method of teaching to improve performance among undergraduate pharmacology students.
The undergraduate medical students pursuing pharmacology in 2017-18 in our institute was divided into two groups after stratified randomization based on the last semester grades. After a session of didactic lecture on 'Drugs affecting Calcium Metabolism' and a pre-test, one group was taught using traditional tutorial methods and another group using the concept map method. Finally, a post-test was taken and feedback received from the intervention group.
A significant improvement of student performance was found in both groups using validated questionnaire from pre-test to post-test. There was no significant difference in the percentage of improvement between the groups. This finding was consistent in both Low scorers and High scorers of the previous semester examination. Students found the new method better in terms of understanding the concept and interactivity.
Concept mapping encourages the students to actively participate and get a comprehensive and accurate overview of the topic, but the improvement in performance in the test was not evident.
不断扩充的医学文献要求初出茅庐的医生成功融合大量信息与临床实践。本研究旨在探寻概念图（一种新颖的教学方法）对提高本科药理学学生成绩的有效性。
根据上学期成绩进行分层随机化后，将我校2017 - 18学年攻读药理学的本科医学生分为两组。在进行了一堂关于“影响钙代谢的药物”的理论讲座和一次预测试后，一组采用传统辅导方法教学，另一组采用概念图方法教学。最后，进行了一次后测试，并从干预组收集了反馈。
使用经过验证的问卷，从预测试到后测试，两组学生的成绩均有显著提高。两组之间的提高百分比没有显著差异。这一发现在上学期考试的低分者和高分者中均一致。学生们认为新方法在理解概念和互动性方面更好。
概念图鼓励学生积极参与，并对主题有全面准确的了解，但在测试成绩方面的提高并不明显。
