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Changes in Personality and Learning Styles for First Year Medical Students

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Sixty-five students (62% response rate) completed the Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness to Experience Personality Inventory-Revised and Grasha-Reichmann Student Learning Styles Scale at the beginning and end of their first year of medical school. Paired t-tests showed significant differences for 2 of 5 personality scales and 5 of 6 learning styles scales.

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  1. Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine, 290P White Hall, 3640 Colonel Glenn Hwy, Dayton, OH, 45435-0001, USA

    Nicole J. Borges PhD & Dean X. Parmelee

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Borges, N.J., Parmelee, D.X. Changes in Personality and Learning Styles for First Year Medical Students. Med.Sci.Educ. 21, 200–202 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03341706

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