Abstract
Background: A rising tide of information technology (IT) is sweeping through medical education providing learners with easier and more effective access to a wider variety and greater quantity of information. Objectives: This descriptive cross sectional survey was done to explore status of computer and internet use by undergraduate medical students of Bangladesh. Methods: 659 final year MBBS students of randomly selected eight medical colleges of Bangladesh were supplied with a pre tested self-administered questionnaire, seeking information regarding the use of computer and internet, in the period of July 2012 to June 2013. Results: Majority (52%) of the respondents were female. Almost 90% of the respondents had computer and internet access. 83% had personal computer and almost two third of the sample used computers for more than 3 years. Majority used computer and internet more for non-academic activities like chatting, E mail, entertainment, collection of general information, reading newspaper and etc. The features used for academic purposes were multimedia/power point (61.2%), internet literature search (42.3%), presentations (25.8%), and word processing (23.2%). According to the research findings the most visited sites for academic purposes were Google, Wikipedia, Yahoo, Facebook and YouTube. Conclusion: It is essential to improve the computer and IT knowledge in academics meanwhile reducing non-academic uses.
Highlights
Medical education has undergone profound changes due to recent technological advancements (Harden, 2002 and Davis & Harden, 2001).College, Dhaka, Corresponding Author: Dr MD
The use of computer and internet is rapidly becoming a key component of medical education in many parts of the world
The results of this study indicate that most of the undergraduate medical students of Bangladesh had access and orientation to computer and internet
Summary
Medical education has undergone profound changes due to recent technological advancements (Harden, 2002 and Davis & Harden, 2001).College, Dhaka, Corresponding Author: Dr MD. As a vehicle for worldwide communication, is one of the most important and instantaneous sources of Shaheen et al, 2016 information for students in institutions of higher learning throughout the world. It has become a popular medium for delivering educational materials (Ajuwon, 2003). Problem and evidence based medicine, self-directed learning supposed to be the pillars of modern medicine and education system The essence of these systems lies in the study of researches, literatures, experiments and it requires access to vast amount of information, which only computer and internet can provide. A rising tide of information technology (IT) is sweeping through medical education providing learners with easier and more effective access to a wider variety and greater quantity of information
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