Use of mind and concept maps in teaching-learning: A Review

Introduction: The training of health professionals has undergone major transformations in recent years, especially guided by the most recent Curricular Guidelines. Within the educational context we must create and use innovative strategies in an attempt to improve meaningful learning. Among them, we have the Mental Maps and Conceptual Maps, which have been gaining space in the most diverse areas, favoring the teaching-learning binomial combined with active methodologies for the acquisition of competences. Objective: To review this subject to gain knowledge from the entire scientific community and aid in the learning of students in training. Methods: A narrative review was carried out based on the search for articles in the main databases to review the proposed theme. Results and Discussion: The mental and conceptual maps are teaching strategies that can be used in the most diverse levels of education with the gain of competences. Conclusions: Mental and conceptual maps prove to be effective learning strategies in several areas of knowledge and regardless of educational level. The practice of organizing and integrating various concepts during the construction of mental and conceptual maps facilitates understanding by the schematic model of easy visualization.