Análisis de los estilos de aprendizaje en alumnos de Medicina de la Universidad de Chile

An analysis was made of the responses of the Learning Styles Test of 101 students with a mean age of 18.9 ± 1.2 years, of which 62.4% were male, 64.3% came from fee-paying private schools, and 3 out of 5 students came from the metropolitan region. As regards, the way of understanding and the experience of learning, the majority did by abstract conceptualization (84.2%) and by the transforming of experience method. In most cases it is done through active experience. In general, the most frequent learning style is Convergent (50.5%). There was no significant difference by gender (P < .05) in the way in which they are perceived or how they process what is learned.