Mobile learning devices in the workplace: 'As much a part of the junior doctors' kit as a stethoscope'?

BMC Medical Education

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Dimond, Rebecca ^a   Bullock, Alison ^a   Lovatt, Joseph ^a   Stacey, Mark ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Learning resources; Patient care; Quality improvement; Smartphones; Technology enhanced learning; Workplace learning

Indexed keywords

BOOK; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION; EVALUATION STUDY; HUMAN; IN SERVICE TRAINING; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION SEEKING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STAFF; MOBILE APPLICATION; MOBILE PHONE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; WALES;

CELL PHONES; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOR; INSERVICE TRAINING; MEDICAL STAFF; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; REFERENCE BOOKS, MEDICAL; WALES;

EID: 84982105888     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12909-016-0732-z     Document Type: Article

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