A study of medical students and physicians referred for learning disabilities

This study presents descriptive data on 86 medical students and physicians, referred for testing to determine the presence and type of learning problems. The major results indicate that most subjects had either a learning disability or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Twenty-one subjects had a reading learning disability (LD); 21 subjects had a potential visual/spatial learning problem; 10 subjects had ADHD; 15 subjects had both a reading disability and ADHD; and 19 subjects had no detectable problem. Subtest analysis or WAIS-R scores indicated that sequential information processing may be the major difficulty for this sample.