|
|
2016 » Papers » Volume 2 » Investigating and Assessing the Learning Styles of Obstetrics Students 1. INVESTIGATING AND ASSESSING THE LEARNING STYLES OF OBSTETRICS STUDENTS Authors: Coffey Donnchadh, Tabirca Sabin, Greene Richard, O Riordan Mairead Volume 2 | DOI: 10.12753/2066-026X-16-090 | Pages: 51-58 | Download PDF | Abstract
In the last decade, there has been decisive and irreversible changes in the field of medical education, with change or shift in the paradigm of instructive lecture and material focused teaching. The practice of interactive, problem-based, student focused learning has drawn full emphasis. Introduction of ICT based modules, eLearning and supplementary creative online means shift the type of learning environments that are commonplace to medical students. The practical and theoretical influences in student's further education can affect the type of learner they are, along with an array additional aspects. This study aims to identify learning styles prevalent in Obstetric students through the use of an online learning style index survey. This study endeavors to diagnose the correlation with educational methodologies that would be applied using Observational and cross-correlation methods. This article describes the Learning types or styles that apply functions in education or training and frameworks the accounts of cognitive learning research. To further this research, an exploration of the application of learning styles in medical education is conducted, heavily referring to its application in Obstetrics. This exploration includes methods that use evidence about students' learning styles to assist them to manage tests of material proficiency and professional norms, customs/ ideologies. The impression of this study can offer assistance to students that handle their subject matter inadequately with the ever burdening stresses of medical education and to outline efforts to reform the students views on types of learner and predominant attitudes or attributes attributed to the type of learner groups. The results of the study create the means of developing a comprehensive user interface as part of a larger study on the basis of the collective student learning style. | Keywords
Learning Styles, Medicine, Obstetrics, Online Survey, ICT |
|
|
|