Hurdles for adopting mobile learning devices at the outset of clinical courses.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mobile devices provide medical students with easy access to medical information and educational resources. Since 2013, we have followed the study use of iPads among medical students. In 2016, we observed a notable drop in the mobile device usage in the first cohort of medical students entering their clinical courses.

Methods

The aim of the study was to identify the hurdles for adopting mobile devices at the beginning of the clinical courses. We examined how students evaluated their own and the clinical teachers' ability to use the iPad, how the study assignments fit into digital learning, and how students used the mobile device with patients. The data were collected with online surveys among three consecutive student cohorts and the distributions of closed-ended q

SUBMITTER: Folger D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8629605 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature