Educational impact of using smartphones for clinical communication on general medicine: More global, less local

Journal of Hospital Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 365-372

  Wu, Robert C ^a,b   Tzanetos, Katina ^a,b   Morra, Dante ^a,b   Quan, Sherman ^a   Lo, Vivian ^a   Wong, Brian M ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL EDUCATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL SUPERVISION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; E-MAIL; ETHNOGRAPHY; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; MOBILE PHONE; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONALISM; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RESIDENT; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; TEACHING ROUND; TEXT MESSAGING;

CELLULAR PHONE; COMMUNICATION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; HUMANS; INTERNAL MEDICINE; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 84880511001     PISSN: 15535592     EISSN: 15535606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jhm.2037     Document Type: Article

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