Junior physician's use of Web 2.0 for information seeking and medical education: A qualitative study

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 78, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 645-655

  Hughes, Benjamin ^a   Joshi, Indra ^b   Lemonde, Hugh ^c   Wareham, Jonathan ^a  

^a ESADE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

^b WEST HERTFORDSHIRE HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c BARTS HEALTH NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clinical Information seeking; eHealth; Internet; Junior Physicians; Medical education; User generated content; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL INFORMATION SEEKING; EHEALTH; JUNIOR PHYSICIANS; USER-GENERATED CONTENT; WEB 2.0;

HEALTH CARE; HEALTH RISKS; INTERNET; MEDICAL EDUCATION; WORLD WIDE WEB;

INFORMATION USE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; INTERVIEW; LEARNING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SCHOOL; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; THEMATIC ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; ENGLAND; INTERNET; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; TEACHING;

EID: 68749096920     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2009.04.008     Document Type: Article

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