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Assessment of how medical residents learn and the impact on standardized test performance is important for effective training. Kolb's learning study inventory categorizes learning into accommodating, assimilating, converging and diverging based on the four stages of learning: active experimentation, abstract conceptualization, concrete experience and reflective observation. The American College of Physicians (ACP) Internal Medicine In-Training Examination (IM-ITE) has been shown to positively correlate with successful performance on clinical assessments and board certification. We sought to evaluate the association between the individual learning styles of IM residents and performance on the ACP IM-ITE.

The Kolb LSI questionnaire was administered to IM residents during the 2016/2017 academic year. Logistic regression was used to analyze the association between residents preferred …