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Thinking about thinking: changes in first-year medical students' metacognition and its relation to performance

Hong WH 1 , Vadivelu J 2 , Daniel EG 3 , Sim JH 2

Affiliations 

  • 1 Medical Education and Research Development Unit (MERDU), Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; weihan@um.edu.my; josephine_hong@yahoo.com
  • 2 Medical Education and Research Development Unit (MERDU), Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 3 Department of Mathematics and Science, Faculty of Education, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Med Educ Online, 2015;20:27561.
PMID: 26314338 DOI: 10.3402/meo.v20.27561

Abstract

Studies have shown the importance of metacognition in medical education. Metacognitive skills consist of two dimensions: knowledge of metacognition and regulation of metacognition.

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