Health professionals as mobile content creators: Teaching medical students to develop mHealth applications

Medical Teacher

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 883-889

  Masters, Ken ^a  

^a SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL STUDENT; MOBILE APPLICATION; OMAN; PROCEDURES; TELEMEDICINE;

CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; HUMANS; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; OMAN; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 84907060492     PISSN: 0142159X     EISSN: 1466187X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/0142159X.2014.916783     Document Type: Article

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