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Professor Samy Azer

Professor

Chair of Curriculum Development & Research Unit

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College of Medicine, Department of Medical Education, Level 3
المنشورات
مقال فى مجلة
2014

Mechanisms in cardiovascular diseases: how useful are medical textbooks, eMedicine, and YouTube?

SA., Azer . 2014

Abstract

The aim of this study was to assess the contents of medical textbooks, eMedicine (Medscape) topics, and YouTube videos on cardiovascular mechanisms. Medical textbooks, eMedicine articles, and YouTube were searched for cardiovascular mechanisms. Using appraisal forms, copies of these resources and videos were evaluated independently by three assessors. Most textbooks were brief in explaining mechanisms. Although the overall average percentage committed to cardiovascular mechanisms in physiology textbooks (n=7) was 16.1% and pathology textbooks (n=4) was 17.5%, there was less emphasis on mechanisms in most internal medicine textbooks (n=6), with a total average of 6.9%. In addition, flow diagrams explaining mechanisms were lacking. However, eMedicine topics (n=48) discussed mechanisms adequately in 22.9% (11 of 48) topics, and the percentage of content allocated to cardiovascular mechanisms was higher (15.8%, 46.2 of 292) compared with that of any internal medicine textbooks. Only 29 YouTube videos fulfilled the inclusion criteria. Of these, 16 YouTube were educationally useful, scoring 14.1 ± 0.5 (mean ± SD). The remaining 13 videos were not educationally useful, scoring 6.1 ± 1.7. The concordance between the assessors on applying the criteria measured by κ score was in the range of 0.55–0.96. In conclusion, despite the importance of mechanisms, most textbooks and You-Tube videos were deficient in cardiovascular mechanisms. eMedicine topics discussed cardiovascular mechanisms for some diseases, but there were no flow diagrams or multimedia explaining mechanisms. These deficiencies in learning resources could add to the challenges faced by students in understanding cardiovascular mechanisms.

نوع عمل المنشور
Original Research
رقم المجلد
38
رقم الانشاء
2
مجلة/صحيفة
Adv Physiol Educ.
الصفحات
124-134
مزيد من المنشورات
publications

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OBJECTIVES: 

To investigate whether YouTube videos on pharmacokinetics can be a useful learning resource for medical students.

METHODS: 

بواسطة Azer SA
2014
publications

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INTRODUCTION: 

This review aimed at identifying studies on group interaction in problem-based learning (PBL) and elucidate methods used, factors affecting group interaction…

بواسطة Azer SA., Azer D
2014