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Medical students' preferred style of learning patient safety
  1. Serene Thain1,
  2. Sophia Bee-Leng Ang2,
  3. Lian K Ti3
  1. 1National University of Singapore, Singapore
  2. 2National University Health System, Singapore
  3. 3National University Hospital, National University of Singapore, Singapore
  1. Correspondence to Professor Lian K Ti, National University of Singapore, 5 Lower Kent Ridge Road, National University Hospital, Singapore 119074, Singapore; tilk{at}hotmail.com
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjqs.2009.039198

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    Recently, the WHO stressed the need for urgent incorporation of patient safety teaching into medical school curricula.1 We undertook this survey to investigate the preferred learning style of our medical students to optimise their learning.

    This survey received exemption from the University's Institutional Review Board. We administered a 10-question survey using the Kolb Model to investigate how students preferred to learn.2 The first five questions helped classify students in one of four …

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    • Competing interests None.

    • Ethics approval Ethics approval was provided by the National University of Singapore.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.

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