Influences on the implementation of mobile learning for medical and nursing education: Qualitative systematic review by the digital health education collaboration

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2019, Pages

  Lall, Priya ^a   Rees, Rebecca ^b   Yi Law, Gloria Chun ^c   Dunleavy, Gerard ^c   Cotič, Živa ^d   Car, Josip ^c,e  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Distance education; Medical education; Nursing education; Qualitative research; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; NURSING EDUCATION; OCCUPATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL ASPECT; SYNTHESIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; HEALTH EDUCATION; PROCEDURES; TELEMEDICINE;

EDUCATION, MEDICAL; EDUCATION, NURSING; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; LEARNING; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 85062406184     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/12895     Document Type: Article

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