RT Conference Proceedings
T1 Knowing the digital reading-writing habits of the Resident Medical Interns (RMI) in postgraduate training in the Health Area East of Malaga-Axarquia
A1 Fernandez-Luque, Antonia-Maria
A1 García-Navas, Victor
K1 Learning
K1 Reading
K1 Education
K1 Continuing
K1 Educational Measurement
K1 Writing
K1 Medical Writing
AB AbstractThe twenty-first century has brought about deep changes in the ways to communicate (1). Theamount of information generated and spread through the Internet, the different ways to access,disseminate and make it known are in the origin of the new relationships between authors, editors,readers and information administrators (2). These changes have affected people both in theirindividual relationships and in the roles played by them (3, 4). The Virtual Library of theAndalusian Public Health Service was created in 2006 and, since then, the resources and servicesare accessible from any Internet-connected device.To know the competence of the RMI in the use of the digital information. A descriptive researchwas implemented through the use of a questionnaire provided to the RMI belonging to the specialtyof Family and Community Medicine, Internal Medicine, Traumatology and Orthopedics.Some of the items included in the questionnaire: the type of publications consulted, the readingfrequency, reading on the web, the types of informative sources, the personal bibliographymanagement, the reading devices used, frequency of books purchase, type of virtual area topurchase e-books, frequency of critical reading programmed from the teaching unit, presence insocial networks, types of profile in the social networks and dissemination of the contents on the web2.0.The results show the digital reading habits in this group of professionals, who were born in the 80sand 90s (twentieth century). The RMI use the mobile technology to access the information but theydon't know, to a large extent, the scientific reading and writing utilities and specific tools in the fieldof medicine and health sciences.Some skilled users, like the RMI, need a specific training which enables them to managecompetently the information and the group of technologies and mediation procedures used in theprocess of research, management, operation, generation, editing, distribution and dissemination ofinformation.
YR 2016
FD 2016-06-08
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10668/2387
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10668/2387
LA en
NO Fernández-Luque AM, García-Navas V. Knowing the digital Reading-writing habits of the Resident Medical Interns (RMI) in postgraduate training in the Health Area East of Málaga-Axarquía (Málaga) . 15th European Association for Health Information and Libraries (EAHIL) 2016, June 6-7; Seville.
DS RISalud
RD Sep 8, 2025