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Understanding Medical Students’ Attitudes Toward Learning eHealth: Questionnaire Study

BACKGROUND: Several publications on research into eHealth demonstrate promising results. Prior researchers indicated that the current generation of doctors is not trained to take advantage of eHealth in clinical practice. Therefore, training and education for everyone using eHealth are key factors t...

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Autores principales: Vossen, Kjeld, Rethans, Jan-Joost, van Kuijk, Sander M J, van der Vleuten, Cees P, Kubben, Pieter L
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: JMIR Publications 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7563623/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33001034
http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/17030
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Rethans, Jan-Joost
van Kuijk, Sander M J
van der Vleuten, Cees P
Kubben, Pieter L
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description BACKGROUND: Several publications on research into eHealth demonstrate promising results. Prior researchers indicated that the current generation of doctors is not trained to take advantage of eHealth in clinical practice. Therefore, training and education for everyone using eHealth are key factors to its successful implementation. We set out to review whether medical students feel prepared to take advantage of eHealth innovations in medicine. OBJECTIVE: Our objective was to evaluate whether medical students desire a dedicated eHealth curriculum during their medical studies. METHODS: A questionnaire assessing current education, the need for education about eHealth topics, and the didactical forms for teaching these topics was developed. Questionnaire items were scored on a scale from 1 (fully disagree with a topic) to 10 (fully agree with a topic). This questionnaire was distributed among 1468 medical students of Maastricht University in the Netherlands. R version 3.5.0 (The R Foundation) was used for all statistical procedures. RESULTS: A total of 303 students out of 1468, representing a response rate of 20.64%, replied to our questionnaire. The aggregate statement “I feel prepared to take advantage of the technological developments within the medical field” was scored at a mean value of 4.8 out of 10. Mean scores regarding the need for education about eHealth topics ranged from 6.4 to 7.3. Medical students did not favor creating their own health apps or mobile apps; the mean score was 4.9 for this topic. The most popular didactical option, with a mean score 7.2, was to remotely follow a real-life patient under the supervision of a doctor. CONCLUSIONS: To the best of our knowledge, this is the largest evaluation of students’ opinions on eHealth training in a medical undergraduate curriculum. We found that medical students have positives attitudes toward incorporating eHealth into the medical curriculum.
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spelling pubmed-75636232020-11-02 Understanding Medical Students’ Attitudes Toward Learning eHealth: Questionnaire Study Vossen, Kjeld Rethans, Jan-Joost van Kuijk, Sander M J van der Vleuten, Cees P Kubben, Pieter L JMIR Med Educ Original Paper BACKGROUND: Several publications on research into eHealth demonstrate promising results. Prior researchers indicated that the current generation of doctors is not trained to take advantage of eHealth in clinical practice. Therefore, training and education for everyone using eHealth are key factors to its successful implementation. We set out to review whether medical students feel prepared to take advantage of eHealth innovations in medicine. OBJECTIVE: Our objective was to evaluate whether medical students desire a dedicated eHealth curriculum during their medical studies. METHODS: A questionnaire assessing current education, the need for education about eHealth topics, and the didactical forms for teaching these topics was developed. Questionnaire items were scored on a scale from 1 (fully disagree with a topic) to 10 (fully agree with a topic). This questionnaire was distributed among 1468 medical students of Maastricht University in the Netherlands. R version 3.5.0 (The R Foundation) was used for all statistical procedures. RESULTS: A total of 303 students out of 1468, representing a response rate of 20.64%, replied to our questionnaire. The aggregate statement “I feel prepared to take advantage of the technological developments within the medical field” was scored at a mean value of 4.8 out of 10. Mean scores regarding the need for education about eHealth topics ranged from 6.4 to 7.3. Medical students did not favor creating their own health apps or mobile apps; the mean score was 4.9 for this topic. The most popular didactical option, with a mean score 7.2, was to remotely follow a real-life patient under the supervision of a doctor. CONCLUSIONS: To the best of our knowledge, this is the largest evaluation of students’ opinions on eHealth training in a medical undergraduate curriculum. We found that medical students have positives attitudes toward incorporating eHealth into the medical curriculum. JMIR Publications 2020-10-01 /pmc/articles/PMC7563623/ /pubmed/33001034 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/17030 Text en ©Kjeld Vossen, Jan-Joost Rethans, Sander M J van Kuijk, Cees P van der Vleuten, Pieter L Kubben. Originally published in JMIR Medical Education (http://mededu.jmir.org), 01.10.2020. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in JMIR Medical Education, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on http://mededu.jmir.org/, as well as this copyright and license information must be included.
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