Development Strategies in Medical Education

Introduction: Many factors such as learning styles can affect the learning process. Learning style is a way that students prefer to other ways for learning. Frequency of using learning styles  varies in different countries. The purpose of this study is The present study aims to review  learning styles in Iranian nursing students.

Methods: This study was conducted in 2015 with reviewing local and external published and available resources  as well as articles related to learning styles and searching information sites  including Pubmed, Scopus, Proquest, Google Scholar, Elsevier, Iranmedex and SID. Key words were Learning styles, Kolb, Nursing student and Iran.

Results: Researches conducted among nursing students showed that  more learning styles are convergent and assimilating. In different studies, some students have two or more learning styles.

Conclusion: This study showed that more learning styles were seen in nursing students, especialy convergent and assimilating  ones . Given that fact the coordination of learning styles and teaching methods is a way  to improve quality of training.