Mobile Learning in a Rural Medical School: Feasibility and Educational Benefits in Campus and Clinical Settings

Table 1

First- and second-year students’ reported activities on the laptops.

	First-year students; Laptop activities-No. (%)^†	Second-Year students; Laptop activities-No. (%)	Fisher’s exact test
Access to library resources	54 (87%)	40 (85%)	P = 0.785
Access to the Internet	60 (97%)	40 (85%)	P = 0.038*
Email	58 (94%)	39 (83%)	P = 0.121
Multimedia resources (CDs, books, etc.)	59 (95%)	34 (72%)	P = 0.002**
Multimedia from the Internet	57 (92%)	35 (75%)	P = 0.017*
Preparing presentations	55 (89%)	41 (87%)	P = 1.0
Word processing	56 (90%)	40 (85%)	P = 0.552
Other	19 (31%)	14 (30%)	P = 1.0

∗P < 0.05; **P < 0.01.
^†No. relates to the number of students from each cohort that reported doing each activity.