Pedagogical Strategies for the Enhancement of Medical Education
Mohammad Azzam, Ronald Easteal
Abstract
Clearly, memory and learning are essential to medical education. To make memory and learning more robust and long-term, educators should turn to the advances in neuroscience and cognitive science to direct their efforts. This paper describes the memory pathways and stages with emphasis leading to long-term memory storage. Particular stress is placed on this storage as a construct known as schema. Leading from this background, several pedagogical strategies are described: cognitive load, dual encoding, spiral syllabus, bridging and chunking, sleep consolidation, and retrieval practice.
Topics & Concepts
Chunking (psychology)Memory consolidationSchema (genetic algorithms)CognitionComputer scienceSyllabusLong-term memoryPsychologyMemorizationCognitive scienceCognitive psychologyNeuroscienceMathematics educationInformation retrievalHippocampusNeuroscience, Education and Cognitive FunctionMemory Processes and InfluencesVisual and Cognitive Learning Processes