دورية أكاديمية
PERCEPTION & UTILIZATION OF INTERNET & MEDICAL APPLICATIONS BY STUDENTS AT COMBINED MILITARY HOSPITAL LAHORE MEDICAL COLLEGE
العنوان: | PERCEPTION & UTILIZATION OF INTERNET & MEDICAL APPLICATIONS BY STUDENTS AT COMBINED MILITARY HOSPITAL LAHORE MEDICAL COLLEGE |
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المؤلفون: | Hajra Omar, Shehla Baqai, Saima Qamar, Humaira Osman Jaffery, Omar Zafar, Muhammad Ashraf Chaudhry |
المصدر: | Pakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal, Vol 70, Iss 5, Pp 1256-1260 (2020) |
بيانات النشر: | Army Medical College Rawalpindi, 2020. |
سنة النشر: | 2020 |
المجموعة: | LCC:Medicine LCC:Medicine (General) |
مصطلحات موضوعية: | education, internet, medical application, Medicine, Medicine (General), R5-920 |
الوصف: | Objective: To determine the pattern of internet and medical application usage among medical students, their perceptions towards these resources, and the subsequent challenges that emerge. Study Design: Cross-sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: Combined Military Hospital Lahore Medical College, from May to Nov 2018. Methodology: After taking consent, data was collected from 260 students through self-administrated questionnaire by convenience sampling. The data was analysed using SPSS version 20.0. Results: All participants had access to the internet, and 98% had access to a smartphone. Daily internet usage was observed in 92.9% participants, with 29% of them using it for more than 5 hours per day and an equal number of students utilizing it for 3-4 hours per day. Textbooks were the favoured resource for looking up medical information (85.5%). Medical applications were used by 43.1% of the study subjects. Out of all the apps and websites assessed in the study Google was the most used 215 (84.3%) followed by Wikipedia 187 (73.3%), Web MD 153 (60%), Meds cape 121 (47.5%), Pub Med 61 (23.9%), and Google scholar 42 (16.5%). Most participants (42.2%) were either uncomfortable or very uncomfortable with using medical applications in front of patients. Most students believed discouragement from teachers led to decrease application usage. Conclusion: Internet and smartphone usage was found widespread among medical students. While students view medical applications favourably, there was hesitance in using them in classroom and clinical settings. |
نوع الوثيقة: | article |
وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
اللغة: | English |
تدمد: | 0030-9648 2411-8842 |
Relation: | https://www.pafmj.org/index.php/PAFMJ/article/view/5545/2948; https://doaj.org/toc/0030-9648; https://doaj.org/toc/2411-8842 |
URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/32bcf0f04fcc42968bd6b401e6ab785c |
رقم الأكسشن: | edsdoj.32bcf0f04fcc42968bd6b401e6ab785c |
قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
تدمد: | 00309648 24118842 |
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