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Humanidades Médicas

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Abstract

BETANCOURT GAMBOA, Kenia; BETANCOURT VALLADARES, Miriela  and  BRUNET BERNAL, Gerardo. Learning styles in students of stomatology. Rev Hum Med [online]. 2021, vol.21, n.3, pp.888-900.  Epub Dec 15, 2021. ISSN 1727-8120.

The study of the learning styles is a tool which contributes to the teaching learning process, therefore is a topic of vital importance.

Objective:

To analyze the learning styles of first year students of Dentistry degree.

Method:

A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out in the Dental Faculty of Camaguey. The 22 first year students registered for 2019-2020 academic year were included in the study. Theoretical methods included: documents review, analysis - synthesis, and induction-deduction while the empirical methods applied was the Honey-Alonso questionnaire of learning styles. An interpretation scale was used to analyze the results.

Results:

The reflexive learning is the preferred one among all the students with 54, 4%. The theoretical style presents with the same frequency in males.

Conclusions:

The research performed allows to conduct a teaching learning process centered in the individual features of students.

Keywords : Learning styles; Higher Medical Education; profiles of learning styles; learning; dentistry.

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