Dental Medical Students Approach towards Web Resources and Internet Use: A Survey of Dental Medical Colleges of Jammu

摘要

Internet is used for various reasons in the field of medicine and research, including teaching, diagnosis and the conduct of medical examination. Students can have the opportunity to undertake research and it helps them to go into the details of controversial topics by accessing expertise of specialists all over the world. Effective communication is established using chat rooms, video conferencing and interactive learning environment using animation and simulation methods. The use of computers is increasing among medical students, therefore we carried out a cross sectional study in two Dental medical colleges of Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, with the objective of assessing the pattern of computer and internet use among undergraduate (BDS) medical students, faculty members and PG students . An attempt has been made to determine the present status of awareness and use of computers and websites available on internet. It was observed that use of computers and internet is still insufficient among the dental students of the dental medical colleges of Jammu in Jammu and Kashmir.