Medical Education Department, Medicine College, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Biomed Res Int. 2022 Oct 5;2022:5141568. doi: 10.1155/2022/5141568. eCollection 2022.
Current medical care deeply relies on informatics during all stages of patient care, which is significantly enhanced due to its use. The healthcare professional's formation in medical informatics results crucial for their everyday practice. However, healthcare study programs not always provide education about the use of this wide variety of systems, and young professionals find that they need to learn about it over the experience. The aim of this study was to assess the understanding of medical and dental students regarding medical informatics and ICTs.
A questionnaire was produced with 3 sections and a total of 24 questions. Students replied to the survey before and after taking the medical informatics course.
A total of 719 students from second year of medical and dental school were recruited for the study between the period of September of 2017-May 2018, September 2018-May 2019, September 2019-May 2020, and September 2020-May 2021. Medical and dental students showed a good level of understanding regarding medical informatics, as well as a good perception of the relevance of ICT learning for the professional practice. Course attendance increased the percentage of students that felt confident of their knowledge about medical informatics. However, most students felt that little or no medical informatics education was lectured at their schools and that the University should adapt the academic program to include it. After taking the course, the student's perception on this matter was improved.
Medical and dental students find medical informatics learning useful for their future professional practice and feel inclined to use it. However, they feel that Universities need to adapt their programs in order to include medical education courses and trainings; partly because they are not completely aware of the use of ICTs that already are established in their courses.
当前的医疗保健在患者护理的各个阶段都深深依赖于信息学，由于其使用，这得到了显著增强。医疗保健专业人员在医学信息学方面的培养对于他们的日常实践至关重要。然而，医疗保健学习计划并不总是提供有关使用这种广泛系统的教育，并且年轻的专业人员发现他们需要通过经验来学习这方面的知识。本研究的目的是评估医学生和牙科学的学生对医学信息学和信息通信技术的理解。
制作了一份有 3 个部分和总共 24 个问题的问卷。学生在参加医学信息学课程前后对调查进行了回复。
2017 年 9 月至 2018 年 5 月、2018 年 9 月至 2019 年 5 月、2019 年 9 月至 2020 年 5 月和 2020 年 9 月至 2021 年 5 月期间，共有来自医学和牙科学院二年级的 719 名学生被招募参加这项研究。医学生和牙科学的学生对医学信息学有很好的理解水平，并且对信息通信技术学习对专业实践的相关性也有很好的认识。参加课程提高了学生对自己医学信息学知识的信心。然而，大多数学生觉得他们的学校几乎没有或没有医学信息学教育，并且认为大学应该调整学术课程以包括它。参加课程后，学生对这方面的看法有所改善。
医学生和牙科学的学生认为医学信息学学习对他们未来的专业实践有用，并倾向于使用它。然而，他们认为大学需要调整他们的课程，以包括医学教育课程和培训；部分原因是他们不完全了解已经在他们的课程中使用的信息通信技术。
