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- ItemInstitutional support for handheld computing: clinical and educational lessons learned.(2010-04-14) Stephens, Mark B; Waechter, Donna; Williams, Pamela M; Williams, Alan L; Yew, Kenneth S; Strayer, Scott MHandheld computing devices or personal digital assistants PDAs are used often in the health care setting They provide a convenient way to store and carry either personal or reference information and can be used to accomplish other tasks associated with patient care This article reports clinical and educational lessons learned from a longitudinal institutional initiative designed to provide medical students with PDAs to facilitate patient care and assist with clinical learning
- ItemLearning PDA skills online is feasible and acceptable to clerkship students.(2008-11-28) Strayer, Scott M; Williams, Pamela M; Stephens, Mark B; Yew, Kenneth SBACKGROUND The feasibility and acceptability of teaching medical students to use PDA clinical decision support tools via a Web based course have not been previously evaluated METHODS A total of 119 third year family medicine clerkship students completed a baseline survey on PDA use attended an introductory PDA lecture and were invited to voluntarily access a Web based course through Blackboard All students had been previously issued with PDAs in their second year RESULTS At baseline 95 of students reported having removed their PDA from its box 59 reported using it weekly and 71 had loaded medical applications From August 2006 March 2007 36 students accessed the course 610 times range 8 54 The PDA cases comprised 63 of hits course resources 30 of hits and course information 6 of hits Students evaluated the course equally to other clerkship didactics CONCLUSIONS It is feasible and acceptable to students to teach PDA decision support tools in an online course In our setting for the minority of students who chose to learn online the format was successful and met their needs