Factors influencing the implementation, adoption, use, sustainability and scalability of mLearning for medical and nursing education: A systematic review protocol

Systematic Reviews

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Krishnasamy, Charmaine ^a   Ong, Sik Yin ^a   Yock, Yvonne ^a   Lim, Issac ^a   Rees, Rebecca ^b   Car, Josip ^c,d  

^a TAN TOCK SENG HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Medical education; Mobile learning (mLearning); Nursing education; Systematic Review

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; METHODOLOGY; MOBILE APPLICATION; MOBILE PHONE; NURSING EDUCATION; PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; EDUCATION; PROCEDURES; TEACHING; UTILIZATION;

COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION; EDUCATION, DISTANCE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; EDUCATION, NURSING; HUMANS; MOBILE APPLICATIONS;

EID: 84992025942     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20464053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13643-016-0354-x     Document Type: Article

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