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