摘要：Neuro-anatomically, with early stimulation, lived experience and personal interests, each individual develops the processes and skills to learn according to a mode of learning styles. Kolb's essay evaluates each person's ways of learning. Their knowledge helps in the adaptation of teaching/learning strategies according to the learning styles, as well as taking into account students with learning styles different from the cohort or are special. Objectives To determine the learning styles and their distribution in the medical students of the University of Chile. Material and method After giving a brief explanation, the Kolb test was applied to 101 students admitted to the medical school (second semester). At the same time, questions were asked about geographic origin, pre-university background, and age. The data were tabulated in Excel and analysed using Stata 11.0. Results and conclusion An analysis was made of the responses of the Learning Styles Test of 101 students with a mean age of 18.9 ± 1.2 years, of which 62.4% were male, 64.3% came from fee-paying private schools, and 3 out of 5 students came from the metropolitan region. As regards, the way of understanding and the experience of learning, the majority did by abstract conceptualization (84.2%) and by the transforming of experience method. In most cases it is done through active experience. In general, the most frequent learning style is Convergent (50.5%). There was no significant difference by gender ( P < .05) in the way in which they are perceived or how they process what is learned.
