ABSTRACT
Purpose: There are different learning styles adopted by medical education participants. The aim of this study was to investigate which learning styles and approaches prefer to be learning by medical students.Materials and Methods: It is a cross-sectional study, 320 students were selected through stratified random sampling. Visual, auditory, read/write, and kinesthetic (VARK) questionnaire was used which measures dimension of learning styles and approaches.Results: Among 320 participants, most of the first, second, third, fourth, and final year students had 31.93%, 32.27%, 31.83%, 32.09%, and 31.26% were in favor of kinesthetic learning, respectively, and 69% of all year students prefer multimodal approaches.Conclusion: Medical education participants commonly used kinesthetic styles and there is no difference among different years of study, but in learning approach, multimodal has increased as year of studying increased. It suggests that curriculum of medical education should be revised according to the result of research