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Objective: The objective of this paper is to highlight different learning disabilities and their effects on medical students and suggest the best assessment strategy for such students. Methods: The medical education literature was searched for articles related to learning disabilities and how they effect medical students. Results and Conclusion : Learning disability constitutes to be challenging for the student as well as the faculty because apparently, there is no disability to be seen. It is difficult to diagnose and sometimes it remains unidentified till late adulthood when the compensatory mechanisms crash down leaving the student in despair and low self-confidence. The identification of such a disorder requires appropriate personnel to diagnose such condition which are currently not available in the medical schools. Literature shows that multiple choice questions (MCQs) are the best method of choice in assessment of students with learning disability as it does not discriminate between students with and without LD.<\/ns4:p>","DOI":"10.15694\/mep.2018.0000142.1","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,7,11]],"date-time":"2018-07-11T08:33:33Z","timestamp":1531298013000},"page":"142","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.12688\/mep.crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":12,"title":["Learning Disabilities and Medical Students"],"prefix":"10.12688","volume":"7","author":[{"given":"Arslaan","family":"Javaeed","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"2560","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,7,11]]},"container-title":["MedEdPublish"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/mededpublish.org\/articles\/7-142\/v1\/xml","content-type":"application\/xml","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/mededpublish.org\/articles\/7-142\/v1\/pdf","content-type":"application\/pdf","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/mededpublish.org\/articles\/7-142\/v1\/iparadigms","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2021,12,13]],"date-time":"2021-12-13T15:36:39Z","timestamp":1639409799000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/mededpublish.org\/articles\/7-142"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2018,7,11]]},"references-count":0,"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15694\/mep.2018.0000142.1","relation":{"has-review":[{"id-type":"doi","id":"10.21956\/mep.19611.r29149","asserted-by":"subject"},{"id-type":"doi","id":"10.21956\/mep.19611.r29148","asserted-by":"subject"},{"id-type":"doi","id":"10.21956\/mep.19611.r29152","asserted-by":"subject"},{"id-type":"doi","id":"10.21956\/mep.19611.r29151","asserted-by":"subject"},{"id-type":"doi","id":"10.21956\/mep.19611.r29150","asserted-by":"subject"},{"id-type":"doi","id":"10.21956\/mep.19611.r29149","asserted-by":"object"},{"id-type":"doi","id":"10.21956\/mep.19611.r29148","asserted-by":"object"}]},"ISSN":["2312-7996"],"issn-type":[{"value":"2312-7996","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2018,7,11]]},"assertion":[{"value":"Unknown, Unknown, Unknown, Unknown, Unknown","URL":"https:\/\/mededpublish.org\/articles\/7-142\/v1#article-reports","order":0,"name":"referee-status","label":"Referee status","group":{"name":"current-referee-status","label":"Current Referee Status"}},{"value":"10.21956\/mep.19611.r29150, Julie Hunt, Lincoln Memorial University, 11 Jul 2018, version 1, awaiting peer review","URL":"https:\/\/mededpublish.org\/articles\/7-142\/v1#referee-response-29150","order":0,"name":"referee-response-29150","label":"Referee Report","group":{"name":"article-reports","label":"Article Reports"}},{"value":"10.21956\/mep.19611.r29152, P Ravi Shankar, American International Medical University, 12 Jul 2018, version 1, awaiting peer review","URL":"https:\/\/mededpublish.org\/articles\/7-142\/v1#referee-response-29152","order":1,"name":"referee-response-29152","label":"Referee Report","group":{"name":"article-reports","label":"Article Reports"}},{"value":"10.21956\/mep.19611.r29148, sathyanarayanan varadarajan, SRM Medical College, SRM University, 14 Jul 2018, version 1, awaiting peer review","URL":"https:\/\/mededpublish.org\/articles\/7-142\/v1#referee-response-29148","order":2,"name":"referee-response-29148","label":"Referee Report","group":{"name":"article-reports","label":"Article Reports"}},{"value":"10.21956\/mep.19611.r29151, Sateesh Babu Arja, Avalon University School of Medicine, 15 Jul 2018, version 1, awaiting peer review","URL":"https:\/\/mededpublish.org\/articles\/7-142\/v1#referee-response-29151","order":3,"name":"referee-response-29151","label":"Referee Report","group":{"name":"article-reports","label":"Article Reports"}},{"value":"10.21956\/mep.19611.r29149, Mohamed Al-Eraky, University of Dammam, 16 Jul 2018, version 1, awaiting peer review","URL":"https:\/\/mededpublish.org\/articles\/7-142\/v1#referee-response-29149","order":4,"name":"referee-response-29149","label":"Referee Report","group":{"name":"article-reports","label":"Article Reports"}},{"value":"The author(s) declared that no grants were involved in supporting this work","order":5,"name":"grant-information","label":"Grant Information"},{"value":"This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.","order":0,"name":"copyright-info","label":"Copyright"}]}}