Sarwat Ali, Ashfaq Ahmad, Arooj Munawar, Muhammad Waqas.
Learning Preferences among Medical and Physical Therapy Students: a Systematic Review.
J Bahria Uni Med Dental Coll Jan ;12(1):46-53.

Learning style is known as affective, cognitive, physiological, or combined characteristics which indicate the ways through which students interact, respond and understand the learning environment. A systematic review was conducted with relevant literature from 2012 to 2021 by hand searching and from electronic databases (PubMed, MEDLINE, ProQuest, and Eric) with proper search strategy as Boolean operator. They were searched using the keywords allied health students learning style, medical students, MBBS students and physical therapy students OR physiotherapists. Out of 1027 studies, only 16 potentially relevant articles were included in this review. This study reflected undergraduate physical therapy and MBBS students from various countries and their most preferred learning style is kinaesthetic and activist which states learning is based on experiments, hands-on practice, audio-visual lectures, teaching sessions in a new environment allowing students to analyze and synthesize theories. However, students require adaptable, educative, and assessment strategies as they have different learning styles.

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