PMID- 32469375
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20210402
LR  - 20210402
IS  - 1945-404X (Electronic)
IS  - 0090-7421 (Linking)
VI  - 49
IP  - 2
DP  - 2020 Summer
TI  - Mind Mapping to Enhance Critical Thinking Skills in Physician Assistant 
      Education: A Randomized Controlled Study.
PG  - 135-140
AB  - Physician assistant (PA) students need to assimilate and integrate voluminous 
      information quickly and effectively to promote critical thinking skills required 
      to deliver competent care. Mind mapping (MM) is an innovative strategy used to 
      facilitate students' recognition and recall of essential information and to 
      ensure depth in their understanding via making connections between pieces of 
      information. The establishment of relationships between concepts expressed in 
      mind maps enhances critical thinking skills. The purpose of this study was to 
      determine the overall critical thinking skills of PA students using MM as a 
      learning strategy and to determine if there was a significant difference in 
      critical thinking skills between students who used MM versus standard note-taking 
      in their learning environment. In this randomized control study, a convenience 
      sample of 74 PA students was assigned to a standard note-taking group (SNTG) or 
      mind-mapping group (MMG). After completing the Health Science Reasoning Test 
      (pre-HSRT), MMG members were instructed on how to construct mind maps and then 
      asked to create weekly mind maps for 9 weeks, while the SNTG followed their 
      method of study without mind maps for 9 weeks. Differences in the mean pre- and 
      post-overall HSRT scores between groups and within groups were analyzed using 
      independent and dependent t-tests, respectively. There was no significant 
      difference between pre- and post-overall critical thinking scores as measured by 
      HSRT after 9 weeks of intervention in both groups. However, there was a 
      significant difference in the mean overall post-HSRT scores between groups 
      (p=0.026). Hence, mind mapping is a viable active learning strategy to promote 
      critical thinking in PA students.
FAU - Israel, Cynthia
AU  - Israel C
AD  - School of Graduate Studies, Rutgers, Biomedical Sciences, 675 Hoes Lane, Research 
      Tower Rm 102, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA. Tel 732-407-5724. israelcyn@gmail.com.
FAU - Pinto Zipp, Genevieve
AU  - Pinto Zipp G
FAU - D'Abundo, Michelle
AU  - D'Abundo M
FAU - Deluca, Deborah
AU  - Deluca D
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Randomized Controlled Trial
PL  - United States
TA  - J Allied Health
JT  - Journal of allied health
JID - 0361603
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Learning
MH  - Male
MH  - Memory
MH  - Physician Assistants/*education
MH  - Thinking/*physiology
EDAT- 2020/05/30 06:00
MHDA- 2021/04/07 06:00
CRDT- 2020/05/30 06:00
PHST- 2019/06/14 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2019/09/10 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2020/05/30 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2020/05/30 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/04/07 06:00 [medline]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Allied Health. 2020 Summer;49(2):135-140.