Learning style preference and the academic achievements of medical students in an integrated curriculum

Adel Mohamed Aboregela · 2023

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Adel Mohamed Aboregela, writing alone, surveys how medical students prefer to learn and whether it tracks their grades, in a 2023 study. The setting is a Saudi medical college running an integrated, problem-based curriculum. Sixty-four fourth-year students answered a questionnaire based on the VARK model, which sorts learners into visual, aural, reading and writing, and hands-on types.

Hands-on learning dominated: over ninety percent favored it, alone or in blends. Most students were bimodal, mixing two styles, with aural plus hands-on the leading pair. Grade averages did not differ significantly across style groups or blends. Some styles correlated with each other, but none correlated with grades. The author concludes the problem-based curriculum suits many styles at once, while advising continued monitoring as cohorts change.

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CREATORAdel Mohamed Aboregela
YEAR2023
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE20 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC10994608

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