Enhancing Medical Education Through Drawing: A Pathway to Deeper Understanding and Retention
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WEISS, Valerie et al.
Enhancing Medical Education Through Drawing: A Pathway to Deeper Understanding and Retention.
Medical Research Archives, [S.l.], v. 13, n. 4, apr. 2025.
ISSN 2375-1924.
Available at: <https://esmed.org/MRA/mra/article/view/6501>. Date accessed: 15 may 2025.
doi: https://doi.org/10.18103/mra.v13i4.6501.
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23. Dhawan S, Batra G. Artificial intelligence in higher education: promises, perils, and perspective. Expand Knowl Horiz OJAS. 2020;11:11-22.
24. Engel T, Gowda D, Sandhu JS, Banerjee S. Art Interventions to Mitigate Burnout in Health Care Professionals: A Systematic Review. Perm J. 2023;27(2):184-194. doi:10.7812/TPP/23.018
25. Mirza AA, Baig M, Beyari GM, Halawani MA, Mirza AA. Depression and Anxiety Among Medical Students: A Brief Overview. Adv Med Educ Pract. 2021;12:393-398. Published 2021 Apr 21. doi:10.2147/AMEP.S302897
26. Weiss V, Casazza K. Leveraging the art of medical illustration to enhance anatomy instruction. In: Stephen JS, Kormpas G, Coombe C, eds. Global Perspectives on Higher Education. Vol 11. Knowledge Studies in Higher Education. Springer; 2023. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-31646-3_15
27. Thompson T, Lamont-Robinson C, Younie L. 'Compulsory creativity': rationales, recipes, and results in the placement of mandatory creative endeavour in a medical undergraduate curriculum. Med Educ Online. 2010; 15:10.3402/meo.v15i0.5394. Published 2010 Nov 26. doi:10.3402/meo.v15i0.5394
28. Weiss V, Khalaf N, Sillevis R. The Influence of an Interdisciplinary Approach on Student Confidence in Undergraduate Anatomy and Physiology.HAPS Educator Journal. 2024;28(2). doi:10.21692/haps.2024.012
2. Dienstag JL. Relevance and rigor in premedical education. N Engl J Med. 2008;359(3):221-224. doi:10.1056/NEJMp0803098
3. Challa KT, Sayed A, Acharya Y. Modern techniques of teaching and learning in medical education: a descriptive literature review. MedEdPublish (2016). 2021;10:18. Published 2021 Jan 21. doi:10.15694/mep.2021.000018.1
4. Das NK, Khan S, Patil R, Mukhida S. Is PowerPoint killing the art of medical teaching and is the interactive board way forward? Sri Ramachandra Journal of Health Sciences. 2024;4:4-5. doi:10.25259/srjhs_37_2023
5. Ghaleb BDS. Effect of Exam-Focused and Teacher-Centered education systems on students’ cognitive and psychological competencies. International Journal of Multidisciplinary Approach Research and Science. 2024;2(02):611-631. doi:10.59653/ijmars.v2i02.648
6. Luscombe C, Montgomery J. Exploring medical student learning in the large group teaching environment: examining current practice to inform curricular development. BMC Med Educ. 2016;16:184. Published 2016 Jul 19. doi:10.1186/s12909-016-0698-x
7. Mishra D, Singh S, Khan AZ, Kumar S, Dwivedi P. Comparison of Didactic Lectures and Activity-Based Learning for teaching First-Professional MBBS students in the subject of anatomy. Cureus. Published online December 26, 2023. doi:10.7759/cureus.51106
8. Mayer RE. Applying the science of learning to medical education. Med Educ. 2010;44(6):543-549. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2923.2010.03624.x
9. Mayer RE. Applying the science of learning to multimedia instruction. In: The Psychology of Learning and Motivation/The psychology of Learning and Motivation.; 2011:77-108. doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-387691-1.00003-x
10. Levinson AJ. Where is evidence-based instructional design in medical education curriculum development?. Med Educ. 2010;44(6): 536-537. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2923.2010.037 15.x
11. Fernandes MA, Wammes JD, Meade ME. The surprisingly powerful influence of drawing on memory. Current Directions in Psychological Science. 2018;27(5):302-308. doi:10.1177/0963721418755385
12. Wammes JD, Meade ME, Fernandes MA. Creating a recollection-based memory through drawing. J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn. 2018;44(5):734-751. doi:10.1037/xlm0000445
13. Wammes JD, Meade ME, Fernandes MA. The drawing effect: Evidence for reliable and robust memory benefits in free recall. Q J Exp Psychol (Hove). 2016;69(9):1752-1776. doi:10.1080/17470218.2015.1094494
14. Wammes JD, Jonker TR, Fernandes MA. Drawing improves memory: The importance of multimodal encoding context. Cognition. 2019;191:103955. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2019.04.024
15. Meade ME, Wammes JD, Fernandes MA. Drawing as an Encoding Tool: Memorial Benefits in Younger and Older Adults. Exp Aging Res. 2018;44(5):369-396. doi:10.1080/0361073X.2018.1521432
16. Wammes JD, Meade ME, Fernandes MA. Learning terms and definitions: Drawing and the role of elaborative encoding. Acta Psychol (Amst). 2017;179:104-113. doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2017.07.008
17. Beach IR, D’Agostino EN, Thakrar R, Lunardini DJ. Learning by drawing and modeling: Teaching modalities for spinal anatomy in medical students. Anat Sci Educ. 2023;16(6):1041–1045. doi:10.1002/ase.2313
18. Naicker J. Medical illustration in anatomy. In: Graphic Medicine, Humanizing Healthcare and Novel Approaches in Anatomical Education [3, 1 Ed.]; 2023:63-83. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-39035-7_4
19. Kumar D, Rajprasath R. Drawing skills in anatomy education and the millennial learner: A cognitive and metacognitive viewpoint. Research and Development in Medical Education. 2019;8(1):58-60. doi:10.15171/rdme.2019.010
20. Joewono M, Karmaya INM, Wirata G, Yuliana N, Widianti IGA, Wardana ING. Drawing method can improve musculoskeletal anatomy comprehension in medical faculty student. Anatomy & Cell Biology. 2018;51(1):14. doi:10.5115/acb.2018.51.1.14
21. Liou KT, George P, Baruch JM, Luks FI. Clinical sketches: teaching medical illustration to medical students. Med Educ. 2014;48(5):522-548 doi:10.1111/medu.12450
22. Borrelli MR, Leung B, Morgan MCB, Saxena S, Hunter A. Should drawing be incorporated into the teaching of anatomy? J Contemp Med Educ. 2018;6(2):34-48. doi:10.5455/jcme.20180411105347
23. Dhawan S, Batra G. Artificial intelligence in higher education: promises, perils, and perspective. Expand Knowl Horiz OJAS. 2020;11:11-22.
24. Engel T, Gowda D, Sandhu JS, Banerjee S. Art Interventions to Mitigate Burnout in Health Care Professionals: A Systematic Review. Perm J. 2023;27(2):184-194. doi:10.7812/TPP/23.018
25. Mirza AA, Baig M, Beyari GM, Halawani MA, Mirza AA. Depression and Anxiety Among Medical Students: A Brief Overview. Adv Med Educ Pract. 2021;12:393-398. Published 2021 Apr 21. doi:10.2147/AMEP.S302897
26. Weiss V, Casazza K. Leveraging the art of medical illustration to enhance anatomy instruction. In: Stephen JS, Kormpas G, Coombe C, eds. Global Perspectives on Higher Education. Vol 11. Knowledge Studies in Higher Education. Springer; 2023. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-31646-3_15
27. Thompson T, Lamont-Robinson C, Younie L. 'Compulsory creativity': rationales, recipes, and results in the placement of mandatory creative endeavour in a medical undergraduate curriculum. Med Educ Online. 2010; 15:10.3402/meo.v15i0.5394. Published 2010 Nov 26. doi:10.3402/meo.v15i0.5394
28. Weiss V, Khalaf N, Sillevis R. The Influence of an Interdisciplinary Approach on Student Confidence in Undergraduate Anatomy and Physiology.HAPS Educator Journal. 2024;28(2). doi:10.21692/haps.2024.012