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THE ACCEPTANCE OF COMPUTER ASSISTED LEARNING BY MEDICAL STUDENTS
Author(s) -
Khadra M. H.,
Guinea A. I.,
Hill D. A.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1995.tb01708.x
Subject(s) - medicine , anxiety , curriculum , medical education , medical school , psychiatry , psychology , pedagogy
The use of computer assisted learning (CAL) in the medical undergraduate curriculum is increasing. Little is known regarding the acceptability of CAL among medical students. The present study was conducted to investigate the possible anxiety generated by and the acceptability of CAL among medical students. One hundred and twenty‐six students completed a questionnaire after using n software package which has been written as an adjunct in teaching urology. The present study demonstrates that there was little anxiety experienced by the students when using CAL and furthermore that there was a high level of acceptance for this type of instruction. This is encouraging for medical educators involved in producing multimedia packages for teaching medicine and surgery.