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Gemeinsame Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Medizinische Ausbildung (GMA), des Arbeitskreises zur Weiterentwicklung der Lehre in der Zahnmedizin (AKWLZ) und der Chirurgischen Arbeitsgemeinschaft Lehre (CAL)

25.09. - 28.09.2019, Frankfurt am Main

Cognitive load of team-based learning in radiology education

Meeting Abstract

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  • presenting/speaker Bas de Leng - Muenster University, Faculty of Medicine, Educational Institute IfAS, Elearning Competence Centre, Deutschland
  • Friedrich Pawelka - Muenster University, Faculty of Medicine, Educational Institute IfAS, Elearning Competence Centre, Deutschland
  • Chris Mol - University Medical Centre Utrecht, Image Sciences Institute, Utrecht, Deutschland

Gemeinsame Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Medizinische Ausbildung (GMA), des Arbeitskreises zur Weiterentwicklung der Lehre in der Zahnmedizin (AKWLZ) und der Chirurgischen Arbeitsgemeinschaft Lehre (CAL). Frankfurt am Main, 25.-28.09.2019. Düsseldorf: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House; 2019. DocV9-07

doi: 10.3205/19gma071, urn:nbn:de:0183-19gma0714

Veröffentlicht: 20. September 2019

© 2019 de Leng et al.
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Gliederung

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For many years educational scientists critique the effectiveness of lectures for attaining the learning objectives set for higher education [1]. But even at medical schools that already adopted competency based curricula, lectures are still the dominant teaching format. It seems hard to ‘beat’ its obvious instructional efficiency.

Team based learning integrating individual activities, small-group work and class-wide activities has the potential to address active, constructive and interactive cognitive engagement with a similar efficiency [2]. However such complex pedagogical scenarios involve many factors that compete for working memory capacity. An important question for the effectiveness of these innovative scenarios is therefore if all involved factors leave sufficient working memory to learn.

A radiology course for undergraduate medical students (n=143) was transformed from a series of lectures into one single ‘radiology day’. The scenario involved:

  • multiple small-groups each supervised by a radiologist all located in the same computer landscape
  • a radiologist who moderated class-wide discussions
  • clinical cases with marker- and other types of questions on 2D and 3D radiologic images in a computer program
  • a ,learning dashboard’ for each small-group that showed how group members performed in the individual computer tasks (figure 1 [Fig. 1]).

Based on a general method for instrument development [3], a questionnaire was developed with eighteen items addressing: task, teacher, learning technology and physical environment in cognitive load dimensions. Each item employed a 0-10 scale. Five items addressed intrinsic, four germane and nine extraneous load.

The technological functionalities that managed the scenario made it possible to run the activities successfully and in time. The means for each type of cognitive load were: intrinsic 7.4, germane 6.4 and extraneous load 2.9. Within the intrinsic load dimension the perceived mental effort for discussing findings in the small group was less than for the other items (mean 4.9). Within the extraneous load dimension students reported the most distraction from the physical environment (premises, noise).

Integrated pedagogical scenarios that combine individual computer work with ‘learning dashboard’ supported small-group and plenary discussions can both be effective and efficient in undergraduate radiology education.


References

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Schmidt HG, Wagener SL, Smeets GA, Keemink LM, van der Molen HT. On the Use and Misuse of Lectures in Higher Education. Health Prof Educ. 2015;1(1):12-18. DOI: 10.1016/j.hpe.2015.11.010 Externer Link
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De Leng BA, Pawelka HF. The use of learning dashboards to support complex in-class pedagogical scenarios in medical training. Under review.
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Sewell JL, Boscardin CK, Young JQ, Ten Cate O, Sullivan PS. Measuring cognitive load during procedural skills training with colonoscopy as an exemplar. Med Educ. 2016;50(6):682-669. DOI: 10.1111/medu.12965 Externer Link