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ReviewMedical science educator2025

Exploring the Role of Cognitive Capacity and Adaptive Learning in Professional Education: A Scoping Review.

Meera Deva, Sarah T Wright, Gary L Beck Dallaghan

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Review in Medical science educator, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Meera DevaUniversity of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC USA.
Sarah T WrightUniversity of North Carolina Health Sciences Library, Chapel Hill, NC USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2076-8343
Gary L Beck DallaghanCarle Illinois College of Medicine, Ste 180, 506 S Mathews Ave, M/C 325, Urbana, IL 61801 USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8539-6969

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

With recent trends in holistic admissions to medical schools, students from a variety of backgrounds are matriculating. This presents challenges for the curriculum as medical schools assume a baseline foundation of knowledge and skills for those students. Although cognitive load is considered when delivering material, this scoping review aimed to explore the existing literature on cognitive capacity as it relates to academic performance of students in professional degrees. The results were summarized into four constructed themes-cognitive influence on learning and performance, experience and cognitive engagement, adaptive learning environments, and psychological and emotional aspects of learning. These themes can be pieced together to generate a definition of cognitive capacity and its implications on academics.

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Adaptive learningCognitive capacityMedical studentsScoping review

Identifiers

PMID40352984
PMCPMC12058598

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