Learning style preferences of preclinical medical students in a Malaysian university

D V Muralidhara,Mohmad Nasir Mat Nor,Nordin Simbak

doi:10.4038/seajme.v7i1.146

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The South-East Asian Journal of Medical Education (SEAJME) is the culmination of the SEARAME's vision to bring together medical educationists in the region to promote collaborative efforts toward uplifting the standards of medical education in the region and beyond through dissemination of knowledge. This journal will be the ideal platform to disseminate research findings and stimulate discussion among experts in the field. Open access policy of the journal will facilitate this ideal.From November 2019, The South-East Asian Journal of Medical Education (SEAJME) is indexed in EuroPub

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A learning style or preference is the complex manner in which learners most efficiently and most effectively perceive, process, store, and recall what they learn (James & Gardner, 1995)
A large proportion of our students were in the average group in terms of self- confidence and academic performance
VARK, a guide to learning styles classifies learning preferences based on sensory modalities into four modes such as Visual (V) – seeing graphs, charts, flow diagrams, drawings, diagrams, pictures, colored word accents, demonstrations etc.; Auditory (A) – listening, interacting, discussing, 1,2,3Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, University Sultan Zainal Abidin, Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia

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A learning style or preference is the complex manner in which learners most efficiently and most effectively perceive, process, store, and recall what they learn (James & Gardner, 1995). VARK, a guide to learning styles classifies learning preferences based on sensory modalities into four modes such as Visual (V) – seeing graphs, charts, flow diagrams, drawings, diagrams, pictures, colored word accents, demonstrations etc.; Auditory (A) – listening, interacting, discussing, 1,2,3Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, University Sultan Zainal Abidin, Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia. Academic demands of medical students are rigorous since medical education involves a large volume of content and different ways of delivery of information and knowledge. Health professionals usually require several simultaneous skills involving sensory components such as visual (deciphering graphic content in research articles), auditory (listening to patients or clients), reading-writing (reading journal articles and keeping records), and kinesthetic (learning or performing physical examination and procedures). Academic demands of medical students are quite high They require several skills involving sensory components such as visual, auditory, reading-writing and kinesthetic modes. It is believed that self- confidence is the first requisite to great achievements

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