Romanov Kalle, Aarnio Matti
Research & Development Unit for Medical Education, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 63, FIN 00014, Helsinki, Finland.
BMC Med Educ. 2006 May 9;6:28. doi: 10.1186/1472-6920-6-28.
To evaluate medical and dental students' utilization of electronic information resources.
A web survey sent to 837 students (49.9% responded).
Twenty-four per cent of medical students and nineteen per cent of dental students searched MEDLINE 2+ times/month for study purposes, and thiry-two per cent and twenty-four per cent respectively for research. Full-text articles were used 2+ times/month by thirty-three per cent of medical and ten per cent of dental students. Twelve per cent of respondents never utilized either MEDLINE or full-text articles. In multivariate models, the information-searching skills among students were significantly associated with use of MEDLINE and full-text articles.
Use of electronic resources differs among students. Forty percent were non-users of full-text articles. Information-searching skills are correlated with the use of electronic resources, but the level of basic PC skills plays not a major role in using these resources. The student data shows that adequate training in information-searching skills will increase the use of electronic information resources.
评估医学和牙科专业学生对电子信息资源的利用情况。
向837名学生进行网络调查（回复率为49.9%）。
24%的医学专业学生和19%的牙科专业学生每月为学习目的搜索MEDLINE 2次以上，分别有32%和24%的学生为研究目的进行搜索。33%的医学专业学生和10%的牙科专业学生每月使用全文文章2次以上。12%的受访者从未使用过MEDLINE或全文文章。在多变量模型中，学生的信息搜索技能与MEDLINE和全文文章的使用显著相关。
学生对电子资源的使用情况存在差异。40%的学生不使用全文文章。信息搜索技能与电子资源的使用相关，但基本的计算机技能水平在使用这些资源方面不起主要作用。学生数据表明，对信息搜索技能进行充分培训将增加电子信息资源的使用。
