• Mona Mohammad Ibrahim Abdalla, Meram Azzani, Reanugah Rajendren, Tan Kim Hong, Yamuna Balachandran, Toffahah Ruwa Hassan, Tan Yi Wei, Ummu Kulthum Binti Yahaya, Lau Jing En, Sridhar Ajaykumar, Rebecca Roger, and Mohd Haniffa Salman Haja.
• Human Biology Department, School of Medicine, International Medical University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Faculty of Medicine, Biosciences, and Nursing, MAHSA University, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. Electronic address: monaalbetar@yahoo.com.
• Am. J. Med. Sci. 2021 Dec 1; 362 (6): 612-618.

BackgroundTraditional teaching methods via faculty lectures and text-based materials lack interactivity. Hence, this research aimed to compare the effectiveness of story-based audiovisual mnemonics and the conventional text-reading method on medical students' memory consolidation.MethodsA single-center, systematically randomly sampled, single-blinded, controlled study was conducted among 80 first-year medical students. The students were randomly assigned to the text-reading (control) or story-based audiovisual mnemonics (intervention) group. After completing the learning session, the participants immediately took a test that consisted of ten multiple-choice questions, each of which had one correct single-response answer, and an oral recall test that consisted of ten keywords based on the given topics. The test was repeated at 1 week, 2 weeks, and 4 weeks post intervention. Descriptive and inferential statistics were utilized to assess the participants' responses. The mean score difference between the audiovisual mnemonics and control groups was determined by using a two-tailed unpaired t-test.ResultsThe participants in the intervention group had statistically significant higher marks in the multiple-choice test as compared to the participants in the control group. The intervention group also spent a statistically significant shorter time to recall keywords in the oral recall test in comparison to the control group.ConclusionThe story-based audiovisual mnemonics method is more effective than the conventional text-reading method in promoting memory retention among medical students.Copyright © 2021 Southern Society for Clinical Investigation. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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