Urology at your fingertips: the development of a urology m-learning app for medical students.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Surgical education has embraced advancing technology with an emphasis on e-learning in recent years. Smartphones are a useful tool for medical teaching and learning with increasing use by medical students to access e-books, medical calculators, podcasts, and medical applications (apps). Our aim was to develop a dedicated urology app for medical students as an adjunct to traditional teaching.

Methods

We published an e-book: Urology Handbook for Medical Students in 2017 based on the core urology curriculum for medical students. Subsequently, we developed a concise, simple and user-friendly smartphone app for medical students called "Urology Med", available for download on App Store and Google Play.

Results

This app is an introduction to urology for med

SUBMITTER: Keane KG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8039588 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature