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Table 7 |
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| 1. Use of electronic journals, online databases and search engines |
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| How often do you search the following databases/use the following sources of information? |
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| 1. Never |
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| 2. Seldom (1–7 times per term) |
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| 3. Quite often (2–7 times per month) |
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| 4. very often (2+ times per week) |
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| MEDLINE (PubMed or OVID) for study purposes |
0 1 2 3 |
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| MEDLINE (PubMed or OVID) for research |
0 1 2 3 |
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| The EBM and other clinical databases of the 'Terveysportti' portal |
0 1 2 3 |
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| Other medical databases (e.g. Cochrane library) |
0 1 2 3 |
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| Electronic medical handbooks in the medical library |
0 1 2 3 |
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| Full-text journal articles online |
0 1 2 3 |
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| Search the Web for professional medical information |
0 1 2 3 |
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| 2. Computer literacy and seach skills |
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| Rate your proficiency in general computing skills and information-searching skills |
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| 0. have not used the application |
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| 0. don't know how to use it |
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| 1. some elementary skills |
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| 2. I can use, but would learn more |
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| 3. my skills are OK |
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| General computing skills |
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| Basic use of Windows |
0 0 1 2 3 |
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| Advanced Web browsing |
0 0 1 2 3 |
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| Advanced use of printers |
0 0 1 2 3 |
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| Advanced word processing |
0 0 1 2 3 |
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| Presentation graphics (PowerPoint) |
0 0 1 2 3 |
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| Use of spreadsheet (Excel) |
0 0 1 2 3 |
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| Statistical software |
0 0 1 2 3 |
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| Information searching skills |
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| Searching MEDLINE (OWG/Ovid) |
0 0 1 2 3 |
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| Searching MEDLINE (PubMed) |
0 0 1 2 3 |
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| Use of EBM databases of 'Terveysportti' portal |
0 0 1 2 3 |
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| Use of Cochrane library |
0 0 1 2 3 |
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| Use of full-text articles |
0 0 1 2 3 |
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| Use of electronic textbooks |
0 0 1 2 3 |
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| Use of students' digital learning material deposit |
0 0 1 2 3 |
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| Advanced use of WWW search engines to obtain |
0 0 1 2 3 |
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| professional medical information |
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| 3. Improvement of computing skills |
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| Which training programs you would like to participate in for improving your skills? |
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| Use of electronic textbooks |
yes |
no |
| Use of electronic full-text articles |
yes |
no |
| Library's news alert for novel scientific publications |
yes |
no |
| Web of Science -citation database |
yes |
no |
| RefWorks for managing references |
yes |
no |
| SPSS software |
yes |
no |
| Advanced use of PDF documents (reading, filing, printing) |
yes |
no |
| Advanced home use of licensed scientific databases |
yes |
no |
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1 Scales were divided in tertiles separately for medical and dental students (lowest/intermediate/highest level) | ||
Romanov and Aarnio BMC Medical Education 2006 6:28 doi:10.1186/1472-6920-6-28 |
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