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Medical Student Attitudes Toward Cell Phone Use On Rounds, Jacob Garcia, Sarah E. Rosenberg, Md
Medical Student Attitudes Toward Cell Phone Use On Rounds, Jacob Garcia, Sarah E. Rosenberg, Md
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Purpose: Mobile devices are ubiquitous and serve as an important resource for on-the-spot research about patient questions and conditions. However, even when a device is used to address patient needs, patients and members of the medical team may assume the student is using their phone for non-clinical activities and perceive the student as uninterested and disengaged. Medical students are aware of this potential for misperception, and as such, we designed a study to investigate the attitudes of third and fourth year medical students towards cell phone use on internal medicine rounds.
Methods: Our target learner population was third and fourth …