How do medical students learn conceptual knowledge? High-, moderate- and low-utility learning techniques and perceived learning difficulties.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Acquiring medical knowledge is a key competency for medical students and a lifelong requirement for physicians. Learning techniques can improve academic success and help students cope with stressors. To support students' learning process medical faculties should know about learning techniques. The purpose of this study is to analyse the preferred learning techniques of female and male as well as junior and senior medical students and how these learning techniques are related to perceived learning difficulties.

Methods

In 2019, we conducted an online survey with students of the undergraduate, competency-based curriculum of medicine at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin. We chose ten learning techniques of high, moderate and low utility according to Dunlosky et al

SUBMITTER: Franz A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8988315 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature