Learning disabilities, medical students, and common sense

Supporting medical students with learning disabilities in Asian medical schools

Learning disabilities (LDs) represent the largest group of disabilities in higher education (HE) institutes, including medical schools, and the numbers are continuing to rise. The worrying concern is that two-thirds to half of these students with LDs remain undiagnosed when they start their undergraduate education and may even graduate without having their disabilities diagnosed. These students...

Learning disabilities and medical schools.

Learning disabilities are a group of disorders that affect 10-15% of the general population and 3% of United States medical students. Medical students with learning disabilities are typically unaware of their disorder and may only learn of it when the pace of medical school curriculum overtakes what were previously successful study techniques. Despite the significant prevalence of this disorder...

Hierarchical Common-Sense Interaction Learning

We describe a hierarchical learning approach for effective coordination in repeated games based on a commonsense decomposition of the “coordination problem”. In contrast to most other research on mechanism design and game-learning, we concentrate on breaking down the top-level problem into simpler learning tasks concerned with learning (i) utility functions, (ii) best-response strategies and (i...

Students with Disabilities, Learning Difficulties and Disadvantages

Medical Students' Learning Styles

Introduction: Considering students' learning styles may change teaching methods in accordance with their learning styles and consequently improve the educational outcome. The aim of this study was to investigate learning styles of medical students in Isfahan University of Medical Sciences. Methods: This descriptive study was performed during the academic year of 2008-2009 in Isfahan Univer-si...