Accepted for/Published in: JMIR Research Protocols
Date Submitted: Feb 8, 2024
Date Accepted: Sep 3, 2024
How learning styles characterize in medical students, surgical residents, medical staff and general surgery teachers while learning surgery: a scoping review protocol
ABSTRACT
Background:
Learning style is a biologically and developmentally imposed configuration of personal characteristics which make the same teaching method effective for some and ineffective for others. Studies support a relationship between learning style and medicine’s career choice resulting in learning style patterns observed in distinct types of residency programs, which can also be applied to general surgery, from the medical school to latest stages of training. The methodologies, populations, and contexts of the few studies pertinent to the matter are very different from one another, and a scoping review on this theme will unequivocally enhance and organize what is already known.
Objective:
The goal of this study is to identify and map out data from studies that report on learning styles in medical students, surgical residents, medical staff and surgical teachers.
Methods:
The review will consider studies on learning styles of clinical cycle’s and internship’s medical students; surgical residents with no restriction of formation phase; medical staff in general surgery; general surgery’s medical faculty, being not obligatory to contain all the population’s extracts. Primary studies published in English, with no specific time frame will be considered. The search will be carried out in four databases and reference lists will also be searched for additional studies. Duplicates will be removed, and two independent reviewers will screen the titles, abstracts, and full texts of the selected studies. Data collection will be performed by means of a tool developed by the researchers.
Results:
A results’ summary will be presented in the form of diagrams, narratives, and tables. A quantitative and qualitative analisys will be carried on and the findings may be presented further.
Conclusions:
Conducting a scoping review is the best way to map what is known about a subject. To know how students, residents, staff and even teachers prefer to learn surgery is key to keep up with the evolution and best educate in the surgical career. Clinical Trial: This scoping review protocol was registered in the Open Science Framework at https://osf.io/75ku4.
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