Table 6

The proportion (%) of medical (M)/dental (D) students (N = 295, N = 81) using other medical databases and WWW by year of study

Year of study
M1
M2
M3
M4
M5
M6
All M
D1
D2
D3
D4
D5
All D

searching medical portal "Terveysportti" (2+ times/week)
7.5%
8.3%
21.8%
47.7%
50.0%
78.4%
29.8%
4.2%
0.0%
7.1%
15.8%
14.3%
7.4%
use of other medical databases (e.g., Cochrane library or others; yes/no).
37.3%
35.0%
43.6%
45.5%
43.8%
70.3%
44.1%
37.5%
17.6%
35.7%
42.1%
28.6%
33.3%
searching Web for medical information (2+ times/week)
10.6%
10.0%
10.9%
11.4%
12.9%
5.4%
10.2%
20.8%
0.0%
7.1%
5.3%
0.0%
8.6%
using electronic medical handbooks in the medical library (2+ times/month)
14.9%
6.7%
9.1%
6.8%
12.5%
21.6%
11.5%
8.3%
5.8%
21.4%
10.5%
0.0%
9.9%

Romanov and Aarnio BMC Medical Education 2006 6:28   doi:10.1186/1472-6920-6-28