Using mobile applications in continuing medical education

Author

Spachos, Dimitris ; Hatzichristou, Dimitrios ; Bamidis, Panagiotis

Author_Institution

Med. Scholl, Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

fYear

2014

fDate

13-14 Nov. 2014

Firstpage

301

Lastpage

304

Abstract

We describe the design, development and usage of a mobile hybrid application (UROMobile), with a high usability factor, in an interactive medical school with more than 120 attendees. UROMobile application offers support for several learning activities, as well as program information, general evaluation forms, profile information and many more. The evaluation results shows that there is a successful case study on how to use a mobile application in the education field.

Keywords

biomedical education; continuing education; educational institutions; medical computing; mobile learning; ISUD; Institute for the Study of Urological Diseases; UROMobile application; continuing medical education; interactive medical school; learning activities; mobile applications; mobile hybrid application; program information; usability factor; Conferences; Continuing education; Educational institutions; Mobile communication; Surgery; Usability; continuing education; m-learning; medical education; mobile learning; mobile technology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Interactive Mobile Communication Technologies and Learning (IMCL), 2014 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Thessaloniki

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMCTL.2014.7011152

Filename

7011152