Analysis of the learning styles of the monitors of the curricular units of the basic cycle of undergraduate medicine

• Grant number: 24/06480-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: August 01, 2024
• End date: July 31, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Medicine - Medical Clinics
• Principal Investigator: Marcelo Rodrigues da Cunha
• Grantee: Flávia Ribeiro Ventura
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Medicina de Jundiaí (FMJ). Prefeitura Municipal de Jundiaí. Jundiaí , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Introduction: The identification of the learning styles of medical students has allowed the innovation and improvement of new teaching-learning strategies necessary for medical training, given the profile of current students as well as the exhaustive curriculum of the medical course. In addition, it is also necessary to know the characteristics of curricular unit monitors given the important mission they receive during the institutional program to assist students during the post-class period of monitoring. Objectives: To characterize the learning and teaching styles of subject monitors in the basic cycle (1st and 2nd year) of the undergraduate Medicine course at the Faculty of Medicine of Jundiaí. Method: This research will evaluate the learning style of students from the 2nd to the 6th year who were monitors during some period of the curricular units that make up the basic cycle of the medical course at the Faculty of Medicine of Jundiaí. For this purpose, the EdA (Learning Styles 1.0) application will be used, which has 44 questions from the questionnaire known as Felder-Soloman's Index of Learning Styles (ILS) to check learning style indices. In this way, the profile of these monitors will be evaluated in the following categories: perception (sensory/intuitive, evaluates how the individual responds to the teaching environment), input (visual/verbal, evaluates how information is received), processing (active/reflective, evaluates how information is processed) and understanding (sequential/global, evaluates how the individual understands the information). The data obtained will be subjected to a non-parametric statistical analysis to verify the most predominant type of profile among subject monitors in the basic cycle at the Faculty of Medicine of Jundiaí. With this information, there will be support so that the medical faculty can draw up new training and improvement plans for monitors throughout the course, as this will reflect on the teaching and learning of their students assisted during classes in the basic cycle curricular units.