Application of the mind map learning technique of english-speaking students on the example of the topic “Anatomy of the brachial plexus”

Abstract

Abstract. The issue of teaching brachial plexus anatomy to English-speaking foreign students remains confusing and uncoordinated to these days due to significant differences in the presentation of material in translated educational literature by Russian-language authors and atlases, textbooks, and manuals used in other countries. The purpose is to study the mind maps learning technique and identify the advantages of its use when teaching as a process using the example of the topic “Brachial plexus anatomy.” for medical foreign students Materials and methods. The materials were researches in the subject area of compiling mind maps, textbooks, atlases and manuals, workshops, workbooks of human anatomy for students of medical universities in Russian and English from sections that describing brachial plexus anatomy , and personal experience of using mind maps . Results. the example of using a mind map in human anatomy classes is given in accordance with modern anatomical terminology, the analysis of discrepancies in the description of the brachial plexus anatomy in Russian and English-language anatomical schools was carried out, and the advantages of their use in teaching medical foreign students were identified.