Amtul Anum, Tabassum Ahsan Qadeer.
Differences in Learning Preferences among Medical, Dental and DPT Students.
J Bahria Uni Med Dental Coll Jan ;9(3):222-6.

Objective: To analyze the learning styles of undergraduate medical, dental and DPT (Department of physical therapy) students using the VARK questionnaire. Study Design and Setting: This cross sectional questionnaire based clinical study was conducted on 278 undergraduate students at Bahria University of Medical and Dental College in Karachi. Results: Our result showed that 76.3% preferred unimodal style followed by bimodal (18.3%) and trimodal (5.4%). Kinesthetic (40%) was the most preferred method followed by aural (36%). There was no preferential shift with gender or academic year variation. Conclusion: According to our study, most of the undergraduate medical, dental and DPT students prefer unimodal method of learning despite of educational, gender and academic variation in the sample. None of the students preferred the quadmodal learning style. Kinesthetic was the most preferred unimodal preference. Keywords: Vark, Learning Preferences, Teaching Strategy, Dental Education, Kinesthetic, Aural, Multimodal

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