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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doaj-85b4caf470b740bc893c2e5cf6c3bd232020-11-25T03:26:40ZengTehran University of Medical SciencesActa Medica Iranica0044-60251735-96942013-01-01511Medical Podcasting in Iran; Pilot, Implementation and Attitude EvaluationPouria Heydarpour0Nima Hafezi-Nejad1Ali Khodabakhsh2Mohsen Khosravi3Shayan Khoshkish4Majid Sadeghian5Bijan Samavat6Ali Faturechi7Parvin Pasalar8Ahmad Reza Dehpour9Student Scientific Research Center (SSRC), School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.Student Scientific Research Center (SSRC), School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Ozyegin University, Istanbul, Turkey.Student Scientific Research Center (SSRC), School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.Student Scientific Research Center (SSRC), School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.Student Scientific Research Center (SSRC), School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.Student Scientific Research Center (SSRC), School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.Student Scientific Research Center (SSRC), School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.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. https://acta.tums.ac.ir/index.php/acta/article/view/4017EducationInternetPharmacologyWebcast |
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Pouria Heydarpour Nima Hafezi-Nejad Ali Khodabakhsh Mohsen Khosravi Shayan Khoshkish Majid Sadeghian Bijan Samavat Ali Faturechi Parvin Pasalar Ahmad Reza Dehpour Medical Podcasting in Iran; Pilot, Implementation and Attitude Evaluation Acta Medica Iranica Education Internet Pharmacology Webcast |
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Medical Podcasting in Iran; Pilot, Implementation and Attitude Evaluation |
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Medical Podcasting in Iran; Pilot, Implementation and Attitude Evaluation |
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Medical Podcasting in Iran; Pilot, Implementation and Attitude Evaluation |
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Medical Podcasting in Iran; Pilot, Implementation and Attitude Evaluation |
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Tehran University of Medical Sciences |
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Acta Medica Iranica |
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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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