Open AccessInternet usage among medical students of Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences in Yazd in 2020
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Jamshid Ayatollahi,
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Mahmood Vakili,
Sara Tajiki,
Mahdie Hamidfar,
Seyed Hossein Shahcheraghi,
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Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
chinese journal of medical research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2663-8053
pISSN - 2618-091X
DOI - 10.37515/cjmr.091x.4205
Subject(s) - shahid , the internet , residence , medical education , significant difference , descriptive statistics , medicine , population , persian , psychology , computer science , environmental health , world wide web , demography , sociology , statistics , political science , linguistics , philosophy , mathematics , law
Medical websites can provide an environment for students to study according to their needs by providing information such as treatment and prevention of diseases, laboratory information and radiography. The purpose of current study was the investigation of internet use status in medical students of Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences in Yazd, Iran in 2020. The current descriptive-analytical study statistical population was all interns and stagers of Yazd University of Medical Sciences who were national and international students. A questionnaire was used to collect data. After all data were collected, the required analyzes were performed by SPSS software version 22. 20.61% of the respondents were very confident in the results obtained from the Internet, while the confidence level of the majority is moderately downwards, which was including 83.97% of the respondents. The results showed that there was no significant relationship between sex, age, level of education, place of residence and time of using the internet for medical study. There was a significant difference in the use of the internet to study medicine in English in the college as well as in the use of the internet in Persian there is a significant difference between men and women, different age groups and place of residence. The highest reason for using the internet among students was related to entertainment. Mobile was the most used tool to connect to the internet. The most used site by students for obtaining medical information was Uptodate. Thus, it is essential to increase speed of internet in universities and enhance available information of Uptodate for accessing easier to scientific data.