Osman L M, Muir A L
Centre for Medical Education, University of Edinburgh, UK.
Med Educ. 1994 Sep;28(5):381-5. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2923.1994.tb02548.x.
One hundred and forty-four third-year medical students at the University of Edinburgh were surveyed as to levels of computing skills and confidence in carrying out computing tasks. Attitudes to computer-aided learning for clinical teaching were also measured. Thirty-one per cent of students had not used a computer in the previous year and 38% had not used a computer outside supervised laboratory work. Twenty-two per cent had never used the university library computerized catalogue and 43% had never carried out a medline search using the library CD-ROM. Students were not confident of their ability to carry out simple computing tasks. Fifty-four per cent said they would need support or instruction in printing out a document, 69% were not confident they could copy a file onto a disk and 74% did not believe they could independently create a graph in a document. Students who had completed an intercalated honours year were significantly more skilled and confident in computing tasks. Attitudes to computer-aided learning were related to computing confidence. Medical students who have not acquired basic computer information technology (IT) skills by the third year of undergraduate training are unlikely to do so in the final hospital-based years. Undergraduate curricula for medical students must incorporate specific computer (IT) training.
针对爱丁堡大学144名三年级医学生的计算机技能水平以及进行计算机任务的信心开展了调查。同时还测量了他们对临床教学中计算机辅助学习的态度。31%的学生在前一年未使用过计算机，38%的学生除了在有监督的实验室工作外未使用过计算机。22%的学生从未使用过大学图书馆的计算机化目录，43%的学生从未使用图书馆的光盘进行过医学文献联机数据库检索。学生们对自己执行简单计算机任务的能力缺乏信心。54%的学生表示他们在打印文档时需要支持或指导，69%的学生不确定自己能否将文件复制到磁盘上，74%的学生认为自己无法独立在文档中创建图表。完成插读荣誉学位年的学生在计算机任务方面技能明显更高且更有信心。对计算机辅助学习的态度与计算机信心相关。在本科培训三年级时仍未掌握基本计算机信息技术技能的医学生，在最后的医院实习阶段也不太可能掌握这些技能。医学院校的本科课程必须纳入特定的计算机（信息技术）培训。
