2011, Number 4
Learning styles of residents at a regional hospital of ISSSTE
Martínez AFO, Barragán PE, Patiño CG, Rodríguez AME, López MMC
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ABSTRACT
Background: Learning styles differ in each individual. It emerges from heritage, culture, lived experiences, and acquired knowledge.Objective: To identify learning styles to make easier knowledge acquisition in specialty courses.
Participants and method: 271 residents were divided into two groups: group of medical specialties and group of surgical specialties. VARK questionnaire (visual, aural, read/write, kinesthetic) was applied and the following variables were determined: different kinds of learning, age, sex, and university. Affinity between specialty and learning style was determined, and score means of both groups were compared, as well as the learning styles of low degree residents vs those of high degree residents.
Results: 192 physicians were included; 44% belonged to medical specialties, and 56%, to surgical specialties. In both groups learning style of read/write was higher (p › 0.05); however, means were low, lower than six. In the group of medical specialties, affinity was of 70.6%, and in the group of surgical specialties, it was of 56.1% (p ‹ 0.05)
Conclusions: Female sex predominated in the group of medical specialties, and male sex, in that of surgical specialties. Read/write style predominated in both studied groups. The mean of both groups did not pass the six, of 16. Affinity between learning style and specialty kind was more frequent in medical specialties. A little more than a half of residents had a multimodal preference of learning. The style of group of surgical specialties of higher degrees improved more than the style of group of medical specialties of lower degrees.
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