Medical Students Learning Styles in Birjand University of Medical Sciences

Background & Objective : Learning and its improvement are the foundation of all activities in educational systems One of the most important effective factors on students learning is their learning style Being aware of the learning style used by students help teachers to assist the students for a better use of different learning styles On the other hand teachers can change their own educational style according to the students learning style to reach maximum level of efficacy This research was performed in order to identify medical students learning styles in ۲۰۰۷ Methods : In this descriptive study a questionnaire including demographic questions and Kolb Learning Style Inventory was distributed amongst all medical students who were attending the first semester of ۲۰۰۷ in Birjand University of Medical Sciences This tool allows classification of learning styles into ۴ groups: converging accommodating assimilating and diverging Results : Among ۲۶۷ distributed questionnaires ۱۷۵ were filled by students ۶۸ percent of students were female mean (±SD) age of the students was ۲۲(±۲۵) and their grade point average was ۱۶۵(±۱۵) The most prevalent learning style was converging (۵۲%) followed by assimilating (۲۸۶%) diverging (۹۷%) and accommodating (۹۷%) There was no significant relationship between learning style and age sex educational level and grade point average Conclusion : Considering that people with converging learning style are competent in solving problems it necessitates that teachers at universities change their traditional methods into new ones like Problem Base Learning (PBL) and Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) so that they help students learn immense medical information

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Learning ، Style ، medical student ، Kolb