A day in the life of third-year medical students: using an ethnographic method to understand information seeking and use...116th Annual Meeting Medical Library Association, Inc. Toronto, ON, Canada May 15-20, 2015.
Objective: The authors undertook this project to learn how third-year medical students seek and use information in the course of daily activities, especially activities conducted in clinical settings in a variety of institutions. Methods: We recruited sixty-eight third-year undergraduate medical sch...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the Medical Library Association Vol. 105; no. 1; pp. 12 - 20 |
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