Research Article
The “e-Generation”: The Technological Usage and Experiences of Medical Students from a Developing Country
Table 1
Different electronic sources of medical information (e-books, guidelines, journals, power point presentations, etc.) used by medical UGs via PED.
| | Source of medical information | Frequency of use | | (%) | | Never used | Occasionally used | Commonly used |
| | e-books | | | | | Kumar & Clark’s Clinical Medicine | 30 (12) | 50 (19) | 180 (69) | | British National Formulary | 34 (14) | 39 (16) | 174 (70) | | Bailey & Love’s Short Practice of Surgery | 33 (15) | 43 (19) | 152 (66) | | Davidson’s Principles and Practice of Medicine | 40 (18) | 60 (27) | 125 (55) | | Clinical Pharmacology: Brown and Bennett | 58 (27) | 59 (27) | 97 (46) | | Illustrated Textbook of Pediatrics | 72 (39) | 37 (20) | 74 (41) | | Rang & Dale’s Pharmacology | 83 (44) | 48 (25) | 58 (31) | | Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics | 96 (61) | 23 (15) | 39 (24) |
| | Clinical guidelines | | | | | Sri Lanka National Guidelines | 38 (22) | 24 (14) | 102 (64) | | NICE guidelines | 41 (25) | 44 (26) | 82 (49) | | RCOG guidelines | 62 (45) | 14 (10) | 63 (45) |
| | Journals | | | | | The Sri Lanka Prescriber | 70 (69) | 20 (20) | 12 (11) | | New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) | 57 (58) | 23 (23) | 18 (19) | | Ceylon Medical Journal (CMJ) | 62 (75) | 14 (17) | 6 (8) | | British Medical Journal (BMJ) | 54 (50) | 34 (32) | 21 (28) |
| | Other | | | | | Power point presentations of lectures | 11 (4) | 39 (14) | 226 (82) | | Online information through web search | 8 (3) | 7 (3) | 254 (96) |
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