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Does the mind map learning strategy facilitate information retrieval and critical thinking in medical students?

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medical Education, September 2010
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (86th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (81st percentile)

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Title
Does the mind map learning strategy facilitate information retrieval and critical thinking in medical students?
Published in
BMC Medical Education, September 2010
DOI 10.1186/1472-6920-10-61
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Authors

Anthony V D'Antoni, Genevieve Pinto Zipp, Valerie G Olson, Terrence F Cahill

Abstract

A learning strategy underutilized in medical education is mind mapping. Mind maps are multi-sensory tools that may help medical students organize, integrate, and retain information. Recent work suggests that using mind mapping as a note-taking strategy facilitates critical thinking. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether a relationship existed between mind mapping and critical thinking, as measured by the Health Sciences Reasoning Test (HSRT), and whether a relationship existed between mind mapping and recall of domain-based information.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 7 2%
Indonesia 3 <1%
Malaysia 3 <1%
Brazil 2 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Hong Kong 1 <1%
Bolivia, Plurinational State of 1 <1%
Bulgaria 1 <1%
Other 4 <1%
Unknown 418 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 84 19%
Student > Bachelor 56 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 44 10%
Lecturer 34 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 25 6%
Other 115 26%
Unknown 84 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 89 20%
Social Sciences 89 20%
Psychology 37 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 21 5%
Computer Science 20 5%
Other 93 21%
Unknown 93 21%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 28 April 2022.
All research outputs
#3,212,497
of 22,671,366 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medical Education
#547
of 3,294 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#11,708
of 85,376 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medical Education
#2
of 11 outputs
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