Main objective of the study was to determine the preferred learning style of Doctor of Physical Therapy students across different universities of Lahore, Pakistan.

Methods:

A non-experimental cross-sectional survey was conducted. Data from 370 students from DPT undergraduate students at Rashid Latif medical college (RLMC), King Edward medical university (K.E), and (UOL) the University of Lahore through questionnaire named “Index of Learning style (ILS)” were collected during the time period of June 2021 to December 2021.

 Results:

The learning style of DPT undergraduate students was judged on ILS and the first category, active/reflective. More students (54.1%) were activists with a mild preference for reflective learning. In the second category which was sensing/intuitive, more of the students (64.1%) were sensing having a mild preference for the sensing type of learning. In the third category which is visual/verbal, more of the students (77.6%) were visual and they had both mild and moderate preference for the visual type of learning and the last category which is sequential/global, the more of the students (54.6%) had the sequential type of learning having a mild preference for global one.

Conclusion

According to the survey, the majority of DPT undergraduate students preferred sequential learning over global learning and preferred active, sensory, and visual learning modes. These results underline how crucial it is to take into account each student's preferred learning style while developing instructional plans for DPT students.

Index Terms- Index of learning styles, Doctor of Physical Therapy, visual/verbal, sensing/intuitive, sequential/global, reading/writing, Felder-Silverman learning style model.