Measuring students' approaches to learning in different clinical rotations.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Many studies have explored approaches to learning in medical school, mostly in the classroom setting. In the clinical setting, students face different conditions that may affect their learning. Understanding students' approaches to learning is important to improve learning in the clinical setting. The aim of this study was to evaluate the Study Process Questionnaire (SPQ) as an instrument for measuring clinical learning in medical education and also to show whether learning approaches vary between rotations.

Methods

All students involved in this survey were undergraduates in their clinical phase. The SPQ was adapted to the clinical setting and was distributed in the last week of the clerkship rotation. A longitudinal study was also conducted to explore changes in

SUBMITTER: Emilia O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3527326 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature