Learning styles of first year medical students from the five medicine schools in the Lambayeque Region, Peru
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Keywords
learning, education, medical students
Abstract
Objective: Identify the learning style of students of first year of the five Medicine schools in the Lambayeque region, Perú. Material and Method: Descriptive, cross-sectional quantitative study in the region of Lambayeque during July-September 2015. The 7.0 VARK questionnaire was used in a total of 562 students (327 females and 235 males) belonging to the first year of medicine schools of universities Pedro Ruiz Gallo, San Martin de Porres, University of Chiclayo, Señor de Sipán and Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo. Obtaining frequency data for each variable in the form of single and double entry tables were analyzed. Timely informed and kept the respective confidentiality throughout the process of analyzing the data requested consent.Results: 28% of students has a learning mode, and 72% more than one; of these, 48% developed the four modes. No bimodal student preferred visual-read/write association. 100% of participants between the ages of 26 and 30 were quadri-modal. It was verified that there is a statistical association between the unimodal style and the type of school of origin (p< 0.05). Conclusions: In the first year students surveyed in the five Medicine schools in Lambayeque region predominant use of the four learning modalities (visual, auditive, read/write and kinesthetic). As well there is a significant relationship between learning styles and the type of school of origin of these students.
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