Books place a totally unrealistic demand on visual memory. We have to make a visual memory 'snapshot' of each page if we want to remember it all. In my opinion, large, unified displays that employ graphics as well as text can do a better job. The graphic design principles I've employed are taken from Yale information designer, Edward Tufte's, masterpiece, Envisioning Information . Optimum use of the visual apparatus is the centerpiece of this curriculum.
Hearing is their preferred mode of information gathering.
Because you have an awareness of your body's location, orientation and motion in space. This is the kinesthetic sense. Great athletes are geniuses of the kinesthetic. This is yet another set of associations they can recall to bring the information back to mind during an examination. The memory of that activity is another strong kinesthetic anchor to the new information.