Exploring Medical Doctors' Medical Information Seeking Behaviors

Factors Affecting Information Seeking Behaviors in Students of Abadan University of Medical Sciences

Seeking Information Resources by Medical Students in Emergency Medicine

Introduction: Members of the health care team in medical emergencies have little information about admitted patients and rely on several information resources in order to manage these patients. The aim of this study was to determine the information resources for medical students in emergency ward. Methods: This descriptive study was performed on 146 last year medical students attended in emerg...

Medical problem attributes and information-seeking questions.

This study was designed to explore the relationship between certain attributes of a diagnostic problem and a particular information-seeking question. Using case vignettes under experimental conditions, fifty residents in internal medicine and family practice informed the experimenter of the most important thing they would need to know to make a preliminary diagnosis. These data were classified ...

Information-Seeking Behaviors of Medical Students: A Cross-Sectional Web-Based Survey

BACKGROUND Medical students face an information-rich environment in which retrieval and appraisal strategies are increasingly important. OBJECTIVE To describe medical students' current pattern of health information resource use and characterize their experience of instruction on information search and appraisal. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional web-based survey of students registered ...

Information-seeking behaviors of medical students: a classification of questions asked of librarians and physicians.

To solve a problem, a person often asks questions of someone with more expertise. This paper reports on a study of the types of questions asked and how the experts are chosen. In the study, sixty-three first-year medical students responded to clinical scenarios, each describing a patient affected by a toxin and asking questions concerning the identity of the toxin and its characteristics. After...