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ArticleJournal of microbiology & biology education2025

Learning microbiology and virology from the cinema.

Oliver Schildgen, Jan Smetana, Jan Ehlers, Kathrin Dreckmann

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Article in Journal of microbiology & biology education, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Oliver SchildgenInstitut für Pathologie, Kliniken der Stadt Köln gGmbH, Klinikum der Privaten Universität Witten/Herdecke, Cologne, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-4297-9627
Jan SmetanaLehrstuhl für Didaktik und Bildungsforschung im Gesundheitswesen, Universität Witten/Herdecke, Cologne, Germany.
Jan EhlersLehrstuhl für Didaktik und Bildungsforschung im Gesundheitswesen, Universität Witten/Herdecke, Cologne, Germany.
Kathrin DreckmannInstitut für Medien- und Kulturwissenschaft der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this report, an alternative approach to teach virology and microbiology-related topics is presented. The teaching approach is suitable to overcome the learning fatigue of students who were tired from media reporting on viruses during the COVID-19 pandemic or were less motivated for the discipline.

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cinemafatiguelecture conceptmicrobiologysciencevirology

Identifiers

PMID40401904
PMCPMC12369362

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