How to Study Medical School Exams | Quick Studying Tips For Medical Students | Tip #3: DYADIC EXPLANATION

In this video, the studying tip that I will present is not known by any medical student since the article of the tip has been accepted just a few days ago and hasn’t been published yet in an issue of the journal. So it would be better for you to stick around until the end.

Hi and hola para amigos.

In this video series, I present a useful and evidence-based studying tip for medical students in each video. Here is the third video: https://youtu.be/LqxtGjrQhEY

In this video, the tip that I will present is not known by any medical student since the article of the tip has been accepted just a few days ago and hasn’t been published yet in an issue of the journal. So it would be better for you to stick around until the end.

The flamingo isready to present the useful studying tip.

Researchers divided the students into four groups. The first group watched a thirty-minutes-long video just once. The video contains a lecture that explains the role of protein synthesis inhibition on memory reconsolidation. The second group watched the same video for two times. These two groups were control groups.

The students in the third group watched the same video but they did one extra activity. They explained what they understand from the video on their own by thinking aloud. They watched the video and they provided self-explanation individually. When it comes to the fourth group, the students watched the same video but they paused the video in every six minutes and they explained what they understand to the another student. In other words, the video paused in each six minutes of the video and the two students explained that part each other. The explanation could be called as “dyadic explanation” since two students involved in the explanation process.

As a summary, the first group watched the video once, the second group watched twice, and these were control groups. While the third group watched and explained it on their own, the fourth group explained it dyadically (in other words, two students to each other). The mean time that each group spent were 30 minutes, 60 minutes, 43 minutes, and 42 minutes, respectively.

All of the students sat for the identical exam three times: Before the intervention, right after the intervention, and one week later. These exams could be considered as a pretest and two posttests. So, which group performed better? Do you have any opinion?

Let’s dive into the results.

First of all, all of the groups’ scores significantly improved after the intervention. There was significant difference between the pretest and the posttests. It’s not surprising, though.

The more important result showed that the participants who engaged in individual self-explanation or dyadic explanations significantly outperformed participants in the first two groups in terms of learning and retention. Moreover, the results showed that dyadic-explanations, the fourth group, were more effective than individual self-explanations, the third group.

Here is the studying tip for you.

Find a friend, study a topic or a part of a topic individually and then explain what you learned from that each other. It’s so simple. Even if you could not find a friend to explain, you could explain it at least to yourself on your own. But don’t forget that dyadic explanation that includes a friend of yours is better than self-explanation.

You can find the article that I present at the description below the video: https://youtu.be/LqxtGjrQhEY

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See you and adios para amigos.

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