Erin S Barry, Annie Wang, Rebekah Cole, Angela M Yarnell
Impact on Faculty's Own Development When Assessing Student Performance
Military medicine
medical education information communication technology ict knowledge skills become necessity integral part preparing tomorrows doctors sufficiently competent use informatics resources effectively efficiently best practice medicine research aimed study literacy preprofessional students ict taking basic informatics course health sciences center kuwait university understand potential attitudes toward using ict including elearning validated questionnaire used collect data 200 students 2 stages informatics course preprofessional program addition tutors observational assessments students achievements informatics course obtained response rate students course 855 171200 77 154200 200 students 85 female 15 male disproportional representation genders due fact 85 registered students female approximately 59 101171 students assessed course computer literate afterward increased 701 108154 students still computer illiterate 292 45154 mostly used excuse lack time 60 2745 generic ict skills highest levels word processing email web browsing whereas lowest levels spreadsheets database specific ict skills respondents reported low levels statistical package use web page design results found significant improvement students general ict skills course results showed significant improvement frequently students using medline p001 google scholar p001 cochrane library p001 informatics course furthermore students completed course 728 110151 chose learning management system useful elearning tool results tutors assessments confirmed obvious improvement students skills using ict ict knowledge skills students course seemed insufficient magnitude improvements acquired throughout informatics course obvious students performance however findings reveal practice required attitudes students toward potential elearning considered positive although potential webbased learning medical training well known among students