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March 15, 2026Journal of surgical educationOpen Access

Instructional Design Unlocks the Effects of Prior Knowledge Activation in Surgical Education

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ASAndrea StorckESEva SchönefeldMBMichelle Bellstedt

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Overview

Experiment examines prior knowledge activation impacts on laparoscopic learning, revealing instructional design's role.

Key Points

  • The study aims to determine when prior knowledge activation enhances surgical education outcomes.
  • Conducted a randomized experiment with 151 fourth-year medical students.
  • Manipulated factors including prior knowledge activation, visual cues, and verbal cues during laparoscopic training videos.
  • Assessed learning outcomes through landmark identification tasks using factorial ANOVA.
  • Prior knowledge activation alone did not improve learning outcomes.
  • PKA improved learning outcomes only when accompanied by verbal instruction.
  • Without verbal cues, PKA sometimes hindered learning.

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Storck et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69b64c9ab42794e3e660dc6dhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsurg.2026.103915
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