Xuan Nguyen Kien, Viet Tran Tien, Duc Nghiem Thuan, Ngoc Tran Tuan, Ba Ta Thang, Van Nguyen Ba, Dinh Le Tuan, Tien Nguyen Son, Nguyen Kien Trung, Trung Dinh Hoa, Pho Dinh Cong, Nguyen Duy Toan, Toan Pham Quoc
Department of Military Medical Command and Organization, Vietnam Military Medical University, Hanoi, 10000, Vietnam.
Department of Infectious Diseases, Military Hospital 103, Vietnam Military Medical University, Hanoi, 10000, Vietnam.
Adv Med Educ Pract. 2023 Jul 17;14:791-801. doi: 10.2147/AMEP.S412912. eCollection 2023.
Metacognition plays an essential role in competency-based medical education. Metacognitive skills consist of knowledge and regulation metacognition. This study was conducted to investigate the metacognition of undergraduate students and its correlation with students' academic performance.
The metacognitive skills inventory comprised 52 binary-scale items administered to 202 Vietnam Military Medical University medical students. The entire semester and clinical results were used to measure their academic performance.
Medical students' total metacognitive awareness score was high (median 0.8). The median metacognitive knowledge score was significantly lower than the metacognitive regulation score (0.7 vs 0.8, respectively). The participants with a total metacognition score ≥0.8 had significantly higher academic results (full semester exam results of 7.4 and clinical exam of 7.5). The group of participants in the military, having sports habits and usually searching academic documents in English, had a higher proportion of total metacognitive awareness score ≥0.8 than the group without these above characteristics (with the percentages of 53.3%, 59%, and 64.3%, respectively; p < 0.05). The number of books read by participants with a total metacognitive awareness score ≥ 0.8 was significantly higher than those with a total metacognitive awareness score <0.8 (3.5 compared to 2.4 books).
Metacognitive awareness of Vietnam Military Medical University medical students was likely to be high. A high score of metacognitive awareness could predict high academic performance. Being a military student, playing sports, reading books, and searching English documents were predictors of better metacognitive awareness.
元认知在基于能力的医学教育中起着至关重要的作用。元认知技能由知识元认知和调控元认知组成。本研究旨在调查本科医学生的元认知及其与学生学业成绩的相关性。
元认知技能量表由52个二元量表项目组成，对202名越南军事医科大学的医学生进行了测试。整个学期的成绩和临床成绩用于衡量他们的学业表现。
医学生的元认知意识总得分较高（中位数为0.8）。元认知知识得分中位数显著低于元认知调控得分（分别为0.7和0.8）。元认知总得分≥0.8的参与者学业成绩显著更高（全学期考试成绩为7.4，临床考试成绩为7.5）。有军事背景、有运动习惯且通常用英语搜索学术文献的参与者中，元认知意识总得分≥0.8的比例高于没有上述特征的参与者组（分别为53.3%、59%和64.3%；p<0.05）。元认知意识总得分≥0.8的参与者阅读的书籍数量显著多于元认知意识总得分<0.8的参与者（分别为3.5本和2.4本）。
越南军事医科大学医学生的元认知意识可能较高。元认知意识得分高可以预测高学业成绩。作为军校学生、进行体育活动、阅读书籍和搜索英文文献是元认知意识更好的预测因素。
