The Preferred Learning Style among Residents and Faculty Members of an Internal Medicine Residency Program

Learning Styles and Teaching Perspectives of Canadian Pharmacy Practice Residents and Faculty Preceptors

“…Some faculty preceptors surveyed may have been dormant (ie, had no residents assigned during the current residency year), some may have experienced survey fatigue by the time they were approached for the TPI, and some may have found the different online tool used for TPI to be cumbersome. The similarity between residents' and preceptors' learning styles has been shown among physicians, 36,37 and between pharmacy undergraduate students and their faculty preceptors.…”

An Interactive Web-Based Project to Stimulate Internal Medicine Resident Reading Using Board-Type Questions

“…Th e four learning styles based on Kolb's 12-item assessment tool include assimilators, convergers, divergers, and accommodators (8). Adesunloye et al found that most internal medicine residents (42%) and attending physicians (55%) were assimilators who prefer lectures, reading, and analytical models (9). In their study, 32% of the residents were convergers, 10% divergers, and 16% accommodators (9).…”

“…Adesunloye et al found that most internal medicine residents (42%) and attending physicians (55%) were assimilators who prefer lectures, reading, and analytical models (9). In their study, 32% of the residents were convergers, 10% divergers, and 16% accommodators (9). Convergers like to experiment with practical application of new ideas, accommodators prefer "hands-on" experience, and divergers prefer to work in groups (10)(11)(12).…”

The Effect of Teacher Training on the Learning Styles of Prospective Teachers of Social Studies

“…When previous studies in the field of learning styles are examined, it can be seen that a great number of studies have been conducted on the learning styles of students studying in departments such as teaching, medicine, engineering, architecture and nursing, which try to give students skills for a specific occupation [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22]. While different scales have been used in these studies to assess the learning styles of university students, it is remarkable that Kolb Learning Styles Inventory (LSI) has been used extensively in assessing the learning styles of university students.…”

“…Another study reported that the diverging learning style was dominant among Saudi dental students [17]. It is understood from the findings of studies on the learning styles of medicine students that they are predominantly in the diverging or assimilating groups [18][19][20][21]. On the other hand, in another study it was stated that the dominant learning styles of the second year undergraduate medical students were assimilating while the dominant learning styles of the residents were converging or accommodating [22].…”