A survey of computer literacy among medical students

The Relationship between Health Literacy and Computer Literacy among Torbat Heydarieh Students of Medical Sciences

Background and Aim: Medical students, as the largest group of health care providers, should be able to combine their technical skills and professional knowledge to diagnose patients' problems and use it to take a big step towards reducing errors and increase the quality of care. For this reason, a study was conducted to investigate the relationship between health literacy and computer literacy ...

Computer literacy among students of Zahedan University of Medical Sciences.

INTRODUCTION The need for medical students to be computer literate is vital. With the rapid integration of information technology (IT) in the health care field, equipping students of medical universities withcomputer competencies to effectively use are needed. The purpose of this study was to assess computer literacy (CL) needs of medical sciences students. METHODS This is descriptive-analyti...

Drinking among medical students: a questionnaire survey.

To assess the prevalence of drinking among medical students a questionnaire on smoking, exercise, drinking, and weight was distributed among the students available. A total of 260 replies were received from an estimated available population of 350 students (134 men and 126 women). The mean alcohol consumption obtained by a quantity-frequency measure was 20.5 units/week for male students and 14....

A Survey of Media Literacy among Students in the Information Society in North Khorasan

The current research is a survey of media literacy status of students in the Information Society in North Khorasan. The theories have been used here are from cultivation, gratifications and knowledge gap to clarify the state of media literacy. This research has been done by survey research method and questionnaire technique was done on 317 students in North Khorasan Universities. The sampling m...

Gender Differences in Computer Literacy Among Clinical Medical Students in Selected Southern Nigerian Universities