PURPOSE
The purpose of this study is to investigate the learning styles of students at Kyungpook National University(KNU) School of Medicine and to assess its implications on teaching-learning methods in medical school.
METHODS: 571 students in all years of medical school were invited to complete a questionnaire via online. For this study, Felder's Index of Learning Styles(ILS) was used, which included 49 items. Felder's ILS measures the learner's relative preference for each of the five dichotomous learning style dimensions.
RESULTS
242(42.3%) students completed the questionnaire.
More than 80% preferred sensitive information and more than 60% preferentially took in visual information. Both males and females preferred sensing and visual learning materials.
On average, The students at KNU school of Medicine were reflective, sensing, visual, global and inductive.
CONCLUSION
From these results, we suggested some effective methods of teaching-learning based on the students' preferences and some perspectives for future works.
