title: Concept mapping: a tool to bridge the disciplinary divide.
abstract: The American College of Women's Health Physicians has been exploring an on-line educational tool-concept mapping-to facilitate the development of an interdisciplinary and woman-centered women's health curriculum, and to implement The Women's Health Care Competencies for Medical Students. By using an on-line concept map of the menstrual cycle, we have built upon a standard piece of curricula that describes a unique aspect of female physiology and transformed it into a knowledge framework that builds capacity. The concept map highlights relationships between concepts and across disciplines, connecting the competencies to enable meaningful learning so that a learner can adapt their knowledge to multiple settings, incorporate new learning, and generate new knowledge to grow the interdisciplinary field of women's health. The on-line format allows access from multiple sites and courses, and allows the curricula to grow organically over time without upsetting current curricular design.
authors.affiliation: New York University School of Medicine, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, and MCP Hahnemann School of Medicine, NY 10016, USA.
authors.forename: Eileen
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Hoffman
authors.forename: Justina
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Trott
authors.forename: Katherine Patterson
authors.initials: KP
authors.lastname: Neely
mesh_terms: D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003071:Cognition; D003162:Competency-Based Education / Q000379:methods*; D003479:Curriculum; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D008432:Mathematical Computing; D008597:Menstrual Cycle / Q000502:physiology; D010822:Physicians, Women; D012955:Societies, Medical; D012984:Software; D014481:United States; D014584:User-Computer Interface; D016387:Women's Health