Assessing Kolb's learning styles in medical students in Iran in 2021-2022

Abstract

Examining the learning styles of students in all disciplines has helped in better and more effective explanation of educational curricula in all corners of the world. Therefore, due to the lack of a previous study in the field of learning styles of medical students all over Iran, we decided to improve the existing research gap by conducting this study and take an effective step towards meeting the educational needs of medical students. In this study, a comprehensive database of the presence of medical students in one of the most used messengers in Iran was used, which covers and includes a population of over 13 thousand people from all over the country and from different universities of medical sciences. Methods: This study is a cross-sectional-analytical study that was conducted during the period of 1400-01 and by using a questionnaire of 12 questions with four options of Kolb's learning styles, it tries to explain these styles in the population of medical students of universities all over the world. Iran will pay. In this study, participants from all over the country, who are studying in the field of medicine, prioritized each of the options of these 12 questions from one to four (which were given to them online) And after checking the given scores, they are placed in one of four learning styles: convergent, divergent, absorbing, and adaptive. In this study, we examine the differences in learning styles among medical students at different levels Results: The students' learning style was divergent (28.92%), adaptive (25.98 %), convergent (23.77 %), and absorbing (21.32 %); No statistically significant difference was observed between the personality (P=0.552) and the internship status (P=0.559) and learning style in the study participants.