The Effect of Feynman Technique on Students'Learning Outcomes in a Cardiology Course
Objective:To examine the effectiveness of using the Feynman technique as a method of facilitating medical students'achievement in a cardiology course.Methods:In total,40 medical internship students who were studying at the Depart-ment of Cardiology participated in this randomized experimental study.Two groups with 20 interns each were divided using the ran-dom number table to account for equal allocation of participants to the groups.Group A was the experimental group who were sup-posed to participate in the Feynman technique.Group B was the control group who were receiving the lecture-based learning pedago-gy.Both groups were given the topic of cardiovascular diseases of hypertension,and coronary heart disease for self-learning and preparation for one week and they were given 30 min for their individual class teaching sessions plus a 15-minute discussion with a tutor.Results:There was a statistically significant difference between the experimental group and the control group in the mean gain score on post-tests(P＜0.05),with group A having a higher mean gain.Participants of Group A also had higher scores in the post-assessment compared with their pre-assessment in terms of self-directed learning ability as well as students'active learning state than that in Group B(P＜0.05).Conclusion:The Feynman technique is more effective than traditional teaching in improving learning outcomes,boosting self-directed learning as well as enhancing active learning of medical internship students.
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