Are new military medical recruits millennial learners? A critical evaluation of the technical experience and learning styles of today's new military medical learners and the implications for the delivery of operational capability

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"Unless we make a conscious effort to find out what they're looking for - and how we can provide it - it's easy to become disconnected from the quickly evolving youth market" (Jackson, 2008, p. 68). Given that people are often considered to be the most important source of competitive advantage that an organisation can have, and given the recruitment and retention difficulties that are presented in times of sharp demographic change, optimising the contribution that staff can make to an organisation at the same time as meeting their needs is an increasingly important balancing act that organisations must undertake. This study focuses on the importance of aligning the delivery of education and training to learners' learning styles in getting the most out of them and explores whether the concept of the millennial learner, i.e. someone born since 1982 whose learning styles have been altered by his or her exposure to evolving technologies, is prevalent within the Defence Medical Services' ne

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