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| Medical teachers attitude towards group chat program for modern medical education |
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In 21st century, social network programs have been used globally. Group chat programs are also increasingly used in Thailand, especially in medical students. And these programs have been extending to medical education.
The objective of this study is to evaluate medical teacher’s attitude toward group chat programs for medical education. Our target group is orthopaedic medical teachers that usually use the group chat programs in routine practice for consultation and photo sharing. We conducted interviews with 20 orthopaedic medical teachers from 3 medical schools in Thailand.
Mean age of participants is 39 (32-52) year-old. All participants agreed that group chat programs provide comfort and convenient about student-teacher communication by file/photo sharing and also the questionnaires. About 16 (80%) teachers agreed to use group chat programs instead of phone call for consultation in term of privacy. Three quarters (75%) of participants said that group chat programs could share online documents instead of old-fashioned papers. But 17 (85%) felt that group chat programs cannot do feedbacks for medical education.
Group chat programs involve modern medical education increasingly. Group chat program can compensate old-fashioned documents and also consultations. But they still cannot use to replace some interpersonal activity such as feedback.
Mostly orthopaedic medical teachers accepted that group chat programs provide benefits in medical education but cannot replace interpersonal activity.
Group chat programs provide benefits in modern medical education about document sharing and consultation. But they are not suit for interpersonal activity.
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