Seeking Information Resources by Medical Students in Emergency Medicine

medical students caring information needs and seeking behavior pattern in clinical education of emergency department

introduction: in medical education, ambulatory medicine education especially emergency is the most important part of medical education. aim of this study is the survey of medial students information needs seeking behavior pattern. we expect this study impacts on the clinical education quality, the recognition of students' education needs and better management of patients by medical students. me...

Medical Students' Perceptions of Emergency Medicine Careers

Introduction Previous studies on specialty choice have investigated specialty characteristics that are appealing to undergraduate students. Little is known about how students' attitudes towards Emergency Medicine (EM) careers evolve over their schooling. Methods An open-ended survey of medical students' career interests was distributed five times over the four-year undergraduate curriculum from...

Assessment of Information Seeking Behavior of Internal Medicine Staff in Shiraz Medical School

Introduction. Practicing medicine needs correct, up to date and easy to use information resources. This study is designed to investigate different aspects of the resources used by internal medicine attending physicians, residents and interns. Methods. All attendings (n: 43), residents (n: 23) and interns (n: 33) of internal medicine ward were, after receiving a brief introduction about the ai...

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

Do senior medical students meet recommended emergency medicine curricula requirements?

BACKGROUND Emergency departments (EDs) offer a variety of learning opportunities for undergraduate medical students. It is however, difficult to evaluate whether they are receiving recommended training during their emergency medicine (EM) clerkship without identifying their clinical activities. We aimed to evaluate the clinical exposure of the final year medical students at our College during t...

Emergency medicine: a unique opportunity for medical students.

In many ways, a rotation in Emergency Medicine is fundamentally well suited for the training of medical students. Because Emergency Physicians normally provide episodic care, in distinction to continuity care as do primary care specialties, we are presented with the greatest number of “undifferentiated patients” seen in any medical field. In other words, our patients present to us without a kno...