Medical students' perceptions regarding the impact of mobile medical applications on their clinical practice

Koh, Kwee Choy; Wan, Jun Kit; Selvanathan, S; Vivekananda, Chithralekha; Lee, Gan Yi; Ng, Chun Tau

doi:10.7309/jmtm.3.1.7

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“…Present study findings showed that 68% of dental and 70.45% of medical doctors are using health care apps on their smart phone. These results are in accordance with the previous studies 21,22 . This suggests that it is a global trend and practice for health care professionals to own a smart device and use medical apps to support their study and clinical sessions.…”

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confidence: 94%

“…Choy koh et al found in their study 22 , that majority of their study participants have positive perceptions on health care apps usage believing that, these apps were essential tools for their studies, allowing for faster and reliable access to clinical guidelines, knowledge and skill as well as helping in decision making. Several studies performed in UK and Australia among medical faculty staff and students showed similar positive attitude towards health care apps usage 18 23,24 .…”

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confidence: 98%

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Health Care Apps- will they be a Facelift for Today's Medical/Dental Practice?

Jasti¹,

Pratap²,

Padma.T³

et al. 2015

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Background: With the recent advent of smart phones, usage of medical apps is on rise. Smart phones are powerful devices that combine the conventional functions of a mobile phone with advanced computing capabilities enabling users to access software applications commonly termed as ''apps''. Health care applications (apps) that are downloadable on to smart phones are increasingly becoming popular among clinicians. Aim:The aim of the present study was to assess the usage of health care apps among Medical and Dental doctors.Methodology: A descriptive cross sectional questionnaire based study was conducted on medical and dental doctors of Mamata hospitals, Khammam, Andhra Pradesh. A pretested, self administered questionnaire was used and it consists of questions regarding demographic data followed by usage of health care apps. Descriptive statistics were computed to demonstrate the frequency of responses and the comparisons were made using chi-square test. A p-value less than or equal to 0.05 was considered to be significant.Results: A total of eighty doctors (48 Medical and 32 dental) completed the questionnaire. More males (n 0 63) than females (n 017) participated in the study. Participants had a mean age of 32.5 years. It was found that 68% of dental doctors and 70.45% of medical doctors are using health care apps on their smart phone. Most of the participants (58.8% of dental and 77.4% medical doctors) use the health care apps for knowledge purposes, while no dental doctors used the apps for diagnosis or treatment purposes. The majority of the dental doctors (41.17%) are using these apps for patient education purpose when compared to the medical doctors (3.22%). Conclusion:There is a high usage rate of health care apps among both medical and dental doctors, with medical doctors using the apps for informational purposes, whereas dental doctors used the apps for patient education.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 98%

Health Care Apps- will they be a Facelift for Today's Medical/Dental Practice?

Jasti¹,

Pratap²,

Padma.T³

et al. 2015

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“…[10,16] Such benefits may result in time savings and increased quality of clinical decision making. [4,17].…”

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“…[1][2][3] A key group of users who grew up with the smartphone are medical students and young healthcare professionals, with as many as 90% owning a smartphone and having medical smartphone apps installed on their devices. [4,5] With students believing that mobile technologies contribute to their medical education, it remains no surprise that institutions concerned with medical education and practice are beginning to unlock this potential. [6][7][8][9] Understanding the demands of target users plays an important role in providing content congruent with their needs.…”

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Medical students’ attitudes and wishes towards extending an educational general practice app to be suitable for practice: A cross-sectional survey from Leipzig, Germany

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Frese

et al. 2016

European Journal of General Practice

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Fourth year medical students from Leipzig, Germany, were interested in using a general practice app during and after medical education. The responding students anticipated using a future general practice app mainly for collaboration, access to knowledge and diagnostic purposes when working as physicians. ABSTRACTBackground: In medical education and practice, smartphone apps are increasingly becoming popular. In general practice, apps could play an important future role in supporting medical education and practice. Objectives: To explore medical students' perceptions regarding the potential of a general practice app for training and subsequent work as a physician. Methods: Cross-sectional survey among Leipzig fourth-year medical students who were provided with an app prototype for a mandatory general practice course. Results: Response rate was 99.3% (n ¼ 305/307); 59.0% were female and mean age was 24.5 years. Students certified that the app had a higher potential than textbooks in both education (57.4% vs. 18.0%) and practice (47.1% vs. 22.8%). Students' most desired possible app extensions when anticipating its use for subsequent work as a physician were looking up information for diagnostics, therapy and prediction (85.1%), access to electronic patient files (48.1%), communication and networking (44.3%), organization of medical training (42.9%) and online monitoring of patients (38.1%). Students experienced with medical smartphone apps were more interested in app extensions. Consideration to use the app to support the opening of their own practice was significantly associated with higher interest in accessing electronic patient files, networking with colleagues and telemedicine. Conclusion: Fourth year medical students from Leipzig see a high potential in smartphone apps for education and practice and are interested in further using the technology after undergraduate education.

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“…They believed that the use of smart phones by students at school could restrain them from their education and this stands as a hurdle to their academic pursuit (John & Kritsons, 2007). Koh and Wan (2014), studied medical students perceptions regarding the impact of mobile medical application on their clinical practices; through the use of questionnaire, they surveyed 155 first year medical students of the international medical university, Malaysia, about the demographic parameters, types of smart devices owned and the medical apps used, the frequency and purposes of usage of the apps and the problems encountered in using mobile devices. The study found that there is high prevalence of smart devices and medical apps usage with positive perception regarding its usage and impact on their clinical practice.…”

Section: Awareness and Use Of Smartphonesmentioning

confidence: 99%