The relationship of Learning Styles with Basic Sciences and Pre-internships Comprehensive Examination Scores and Students' Results of the Clinical Competency Test at the end of the General practitioner course

The impact of individuals’ cognitive and subjective abilities on learning is very important. But one of the effective factors on learning is learning styles and hereupon people's differences in this regard. Therefore, in order to examine the styles of learning of the medical students’ final year and its relationship with the scores of both basic sciences and pre-internships comprehensive exams and the results of the clinical competency test of the end of the general practitioner course in Tehran Islamic Azad University in academic year 2017-2018, a descriptive and Correlation study was carried out on 270 medical students who were selected by available method. The data collection tool was a demographic questionnaire and Kolbe's learning style questionnaire (1999). Accordingly, reliability of the questionnaire was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha; and also by SPSS22 software and using bivariate linear and logistic regression, the relationship between dimension and research variables were examined from respondents' point of view. The results showed the positive relationship between abstract conceptualization variables, reflective observation and objective experience with comprehensive exams of basic sciences and pre-internships of the general practitioner course. Finally, the abstract conceptual variable revealed the highest ability to predict students' reject / acceptance in clinical competency test (p <0.05). Ultimately, awareness of the student's learning style is useful both for the learner and for the trainer, and can lead the learner successful in this regard.