Medical Students and Their Perceptions of Digital Medicine: a Question of Gender?

Valentina Faihs; Christina Figalist; Eileen Bossert; Katja Weimann; Pascal O. Berberat; Marjo Wijnen-Meijer

doi:10.1007/s40670-022-01594-x

Medical Students and Their Perceptions of Digital Medicine: a Question of Gender?

Valentina Faihs, Christina Figalist, Eileen Bossert, Katja Weimann, Pascal O. Berberat, Marjo Wijnen-Meijer

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Technical University of Munich

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Digital technologies play an essential role in the medical sector of today and the future. In a cross-sectional online survey at a German medical university, male students more frequently reported keeping themselves informed about digital medicine outside of their studies across all clinical years of study. While female students self-assessed their knowledge in different fields of digital medicine as worse than their male peers in the first clinical years of study, no more gender differences could be found towards the final year. However, students of both genders showed a strong desire for further education on the topic of digital medicine.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	941-946
Number of pages	6
Journal	Medical Science Educator
Volume	32
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s40670-022-01594-x
State	Published - Oct 2022

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Curriculum
Digital literacy
Digital medicine
Medical education
Wearables

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