摘要
The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of using Mind Maps in teaching anatomy and compare it with traditional based slide. This cross-sectional research was carried out in 2009 on 79 second year medical undergraduate students at Ahvaz Jondishapour University of Medical sciences. Four class lectures on the topics of head and neck osteology were taught. The lectures were slide based designed that were chosen from the chapters in the anatomy textbooks and presented by means of a video projection power point system. The students divided randomly into two groups; one group educated by traditional slides while the other by mind map based designed ones. At the end of the term, a multiple-choice involved forty test was undertaken from two groups. The data was investigated using analysis of variance (ANOVA) and paired T test (p%26lt;0.05). The mean scores of females in mind map group were higher than that for traditional one (p%26lt;0.04), while there were no significant differences in the mean scores of the men of two groups. The mean scores of females were significantly higher than the males in mind map group (p%26lt;0.02) and although the mean scores of females in traditional group was higher it was not significant. This paper has shown the efficacy of using mind maps for teaching gross anatomy as a study aid, even when use has been limited to a single exposure. The study found sex-dependent of learning, suggesting that sex may determine the optimal neural network for designing teaching protocols. Indeed, for females, that have obtained better scores, the use of bilateral neural network seems to facilitate the learning process by mind map teaching of anatomy. El objetivo de este estudio fue evaluar la efectividad del uso de mapas conceptuales en la ense anza de la anatom赤a y compararla con la tradicional basada en diapositivas. Esta investigaci車n de corte transversal se llev車 a cabo en el a o 2009 en 79 estudiantes de pregrado del Segundo A o de Medicina en la Universidad de Ciencias M谷dicas Ahvaz Jondishapour. Fueron analizadas cuatro clases conferenciales en los temas de cabeza y cuello 車seo. Las conferencias dise adas se basaron en el uso de diapositivas las que fueron seleccionadas desde los cap赤tulos de libros de Anatom赤a y se presentaron por medio de proyecci車n de videos utilizando el sistema power point. Los estudiantes fueron divididos aleatoriamente en dos grupos: un grupo educado por diapositivas tradicionales mientras que el otro se bas車 en el dise o de mapas mentales. Al final del ciclo de conferencias, una prueba de opci車n m迆ltiple de cuarenta p