Medical Podcasting in Iran; Pilot, Implementation and Attitude Evaluation
Podcasting has become a popular means of transferring knowledge in higher education through making lecture contents available to students at their convenience. Accessing courses on media players provides students with enhanced learning opportunities. Development of teaching methods able to cope with...
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Tehran University of Medical Sciences
2013-01-01
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| author | Ahmad Reza Dehpour Parvin Pasalar Ali Faturechi Bijan Samavat Majid Sadeghian Shayan Khoshkish Mohsen Khosravi Ali Khodabakhsh Nima Hafezi-Nejad Pouria Heydarpour |
| author_facet | Ahmad Reza Dehpour Parvin Pasalar Ali Faturechi Bijan Samavat Majid Sadeghian Shayan Khoshkish Mohsen Khosravi Ali Khodabakhsh Nima Hafezi-Nejad Pouria Heydarpour |
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| description | Podcasting has become a popular means of transferring knowledge in higher education through making lecture contents available to students at their convenience. Accessing courses on media players provides students with enhanced learning opportunities. Development of teaching methods able to cope with ever-changing nature of medicine is crucial to train the millennium students. Pharmacology education in Tehran University of Medical Sciences has been based on lectures so far; our aim was to implement a pilot study to evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of offering the course contents as podcasts as well as evaluating whether such program can be feasible in our educational program. 46% of students downloaded the podcast according to our download center. 48% favored usage of both internet and DVD-ROM concurrently. Overall 96% of students perceived that podcasting had a positive impact on their learning in pharmacology course. Our results indicate that most of attendants proposed the positive yields of podcasting despite low usage of it, mainly as a pre-class preparing tool. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-08a50dd384d1402384901be0ef7e9f5c2022-12-21T23:09:31ZengTehran University of Medical SciencesActa Medica Iranica0044-60251735-96942013-01-015115961Medical Podcasting in Iran; Pilot, Implementation and Attitude EvaluationAhmad Reza DehpourParvin PasalarAli FaturechiBijan SamavatMajid SadeghianShayan KhoshkishMohsen KhosraviAli KhodabakhshNima Hafezi-NejadPouria HeydarpourPodcasting has become a popular means of transferring knowledge in higher education through making lecture contents available to students at their convenience. Accessing courses on media players provides students with enhanced learning opportunities. Development of teaching methods able to cope with ever-changing nature of medicine is crucial to train the millennium students. Pharmacology education in Tehran University of Medical Sciences has been based on lectures so far; our aim was to implement a pilot study to evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of offering the course contents as podcasts as well as evaluating whether such program can be feasible in our educational program. 46% of students downloaded the podcast according to our download center. 48% favored usage of both internet and DVD-ROM concurrently. Overall 96% of students perceived that podcasting had a positive impact on their learning in pharmacology course. Our results indicate that most of attendants proposed the positive yields of podcasting despite low usage of it, mainly as a pre-class preparing tool.http://acta.tums.ac.ir/index.php/acta/article/view/2357/4294EducationInternetPharmacologyWebcast |
| spellingShingle | Ahmad Reza Dehpour Parvin Pasalar Ali Faturechi Bijan Samavat Majid Sadeghian Shayan Khoshkish Mohsen Khosravi Ali Khodabakhsh Nima Hafezi-Nejad Pouria Heydarpour Medical Podcasting in Iran; Pilot, Implementation and Attitude Evaluation Acta Medica Iranica Education Internet Pharmacology Webcast |
| title | Medical Podcasting in Iran; Pilot, Implementation and Attitude Evaluation |
| title_full | Medical Podcasting in Iran; Pilot, Implementation and Attitude Evaluation |
| title_fullStr | Medical Podcasting in Iran; Pilot, Implementation and Attitude Evaluation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Medical Podcasting in Iran; Pilot, Implementation and Attitude Evaluation |
| title_short | Medical Podcasting in Iran; Pilot, Implementation and Attitude Evaluation |
| title_sort | medical podcasting in iran pilot implementation and attitude evaluation |
| topic | Education Internet Pharmacology Webcast |
| url | http://acta.tums.ac.ir/index.php/acta/article/view/2357/4294 |
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