Learning styles of first-year medical students attending Erciyes University in Kayseri, Turkey

American Journal of Physiology - Advances in Physiology Education

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 158-160

  Baykan, Zeynep ^a   Naçar, Melis ^b  

^a ERCIYES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Learning modes; Medical education; VARK; Visual, auditory, read write, kinesthetic

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250325555     PISSN: 10434046     EISSN: 15221229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/advan.00043.2006     Document Type: Article

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