Health professions' digital education:review of learning theories in randomized controlled trials by the digital health education collaboration

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2019, Pages

  Bajpai, Shweta ^a,b   Semwal, Monika ^a,b   Bajpai, Ram ^a   Car, Josip ^a,c   Ho, Andy Hau Yan ^a,d  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d The Palliative Centre for Excellence in Research and Education   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Digital education; Digital education interventions; Digital health education; Health professions; Learning theory

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC);

EDUCATION, DISTANCE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 85062823168     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/12912     Document Type: Review

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