Does instruction in the use of personal digital assistants increase medical students' comfort and skill level?

Medical Reference Services Quarterly

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 33-43

  Guerrieri, Rose ^a   Kokinova, Margarita ^b  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic health sciences libraries; Computer literacy; Evaluation; Gender; Library instruction; Medical education; Medical school curriculum; Medical students; PDAs; PEPID; Questionnaires

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CURRICULUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MALE; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; MICROCOMPUTER; QUESTIONNAIRE;

COMPUTER LITERACY; COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; CURRICULUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 61449209148     PISSN: 02763869     EISSN: 15409597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02763860802615955     Document Type: Article

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