Use of the Smartphone App WhatsApp as an E-Learning Method for Medical Residents: Multicenter Controlled Randomized Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The WhatsApp smartphone app is the most widely used instant messaging app in the world. Recent studies reported the use of WhatsApp for educational purposes, but there is no prospective study comparing WhatsApp's pedagogical effectiveness to that of any other teaching modality.

Objective

The main objective of this study was to measure the impact of a learning program via WhatsApp on clinical reasoning in medical residents.

Methods

This prospective, randomized, multicenter study was conducted among first- and second-year anesthesiology residents (offline recruitment) from four university hospitals in France. Residents were randomized in two groups of online teaching (WhatsApp and control). The WhatsApp group benefited from daily delivery of teaching document

SUBMITTER: Clavier T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6477573 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature