Implementation of a Smartphone application in medical education: a randomised trial (iSTART)

Martinez, F. Eduardo; Tobar, Catalina; Taramasco, Carla

doi:10.1186/s12909-017-1010-4

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“…Therefore, ensuring MCQ are available in the long term and are available in a more readily accessible format may impact clinical training and education in a more meaningful manner. A study among medical interns demonstrated high participation rates and improved academic performance following use of a smartphone application for education . A similar approach may improve both participation rates and effectiveness of this novel CME tool.…”

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Unique approach to continuing medical education in clinical pharmacology across Australia and New Zealand

Athavale

Murnion

2019

Internal Medicine Journal

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Background Advanced physician training in clinical pharmacology lacks a continuing education programme. There is a need for continuing medical education but how to introduce and develop education remains unclear. Aims The primary aim was to develop and implement a peer‐led, web‐based multiple choice question approach to continuing education in clinical pharmacology training across Australia and New Zealand. Secondary aims included determining, quality, difficulty, utility, relevance, user‐friendliness, sustainability and potential to form part of formal clinical pharmacology physician training. Methods In February 2018, a survey of clinical pharmacology trainees identified topics for question development. Questions covering requested topics were developed and piloted in PeerWise between March and October 2018. Participants could rate quality and difficulty of questions using categorical rating scales and make free text comments. After questions were piloted, a survey using a 0–10‐point Likert scale and yes/no responses assessed utility, relevance, user‐friendliness, sustainability and formalisation potential. Results Twenty‐four trainees were invited to participate. Nine (38%) of trainees completed the initial survey, 10 (42%) attempted questions and 7 (29%) completed the end survey. Median scores of 8.00 (IQR 6.50 – 9.00), 7.00 (IQR 6.50 – 7.50) and 8.00 (IQR 6.50 – 8.00) using a 0–10‐point Likert scale indicated trainees found this approach useful, relevant and user‐friendly. Five (71%) out of seven responding trainees felt this approach was sustainable and could be incorporated as part of formal clinical training. Conclusion This study suggests that peer‐led multiple choice questions could form an enduring education modality which could be incorporated into clinical pharmacology training.

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“…A study among medical interns demonstrated high participation rates and improved academic performance following use of a smartphone application for education. 24 A similar approach may improve both participation rates and effectiveness of this novel CME tool.…”

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Unique approach to continuing medical education in clinical pharmacology across Australia and New Zealand

Athavale

Murnion

2019

Internal Medicine Journal

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“…Now healthcare professionals use smartphones for their daily activities (1,4). Smartphone technologies have combined telephone communications and informatics in portable devices (5,6). As a result of increased penetra-tion of smartphones, app usage is also growing, as these applications are projected to play a significant role in supporting education generally, particularly medical education (3).…”

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confidence: 99%

Knowledge, Perception, and Use of Medical Applications Among Health Professions’ Students in a Nigerian University

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Background: Harnessing the potentials of applications (apps) for clinical training and practice has turned into the focal point of innovation. Objectives: The current study aimed to determine knowledge, perception, and medical apps use among medical students of a Nigerian University. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 320 medical students (193 males and 127 females) are participated, with a response rate of 90.9%. The face and content validity was determined by a pilot test on obtained information about knowledge, perception, and use of medical applications, as well as socio-demographic characteristics. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data. Alpha level was set at P < 0.05. Results: The 12-months and point prevalence of smartphone ownership and using smartphone-based medical apps were 90% and 81.9%; and 65.9% and 50.9%, respectively. There was a high level of knowledge (81.9%), and positive perception (80%) about medical apps use. Knowledge of medical apps usage was significantly associated with each of age (χ2 = 30.541, P = 0.001) and academic levels (χ2 = 19.270, P = 0.001). A significant association was found between the perception of medical apps and age (χ2 = 13.554, P = 0.004). Also, there was a significant association between current use of medical apps and each of age (χ2 = 12.018, P = 0.007) and academic levels (χ2 =11.297, P = 0.002). Conclusions: Although smartphone ownership is high among Nigerian medical students, their usage of smartphone-based medical apps is moderate. However, being young and having a higher level of study are major contributors to a high level of knowledge and positive perception about medical apps use.

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“…This effort encourages rapidly developing software applications related to medicine. Currently, smartphones have various functions such as information searching, medical decision-making and educational applications [10]. For example, iSTART is a smartphone application that is used in medical education, a randomised trial as an evolution platform of IT in an educational application was proposed by [9].…”

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Mobile Screening Framework of Anterior Segment Photographed Images

Zamani

Ramlan

Zaki³

et al. 2018

IJET

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This work presents a qualitative measurement of anterior segment photographed images (ASPIs) to identify between normal eyes and eyes with pterygium and pinguecula through Otsu multi-thresholding approach without contrast enhancement. In addition, we also propose a mobile screening framework of ASPIs through smartphones. ASPIs were directly sent to the cloud storage once an ASPI was captured using a smartphone camera, and then each image was processed through a digital image processing approach in a processing platform. Three important steps, namely, pre-processing, image segmentation and qualitative assessment, are involved in the processing platform of the mobile screening framework. The ASPIs are pre-processed to minimise or eliminate any unwanted areas within the image. Then, these ASPIs are segmented through multi-thresholding Otsu approach with clustering number n = 3. Segmentation result shows that the accuracy of the proposed method is 87.5%, which is comparable with the previously established work that has applied three-step differencing (3SD) method. However, the proposed approach has better computational time which is six times faster than the 3SD method. These results demonstrate a remarkable effort to produce a simple but straightforward digital image processing approach to be implemented in cloud computing for future studies.

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Implementation of a Smartphone application in medical education: a randomised trial (iSTART)

Cited by 21 publications

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Unique approach to continuing medical education in clinical pharmacology across Australia and New Zealand

Unique approach to continuing medical education in clinical pharmacology across Australia and New Zealand

Knowledge, Perception, and Use of Medical Applications Among Health Professions’ Students in a Nigerian University

Mobile Screening Framework of Anterior Segment Photographed Images

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