title: Medical podcasting in Iran; pilot, implementation and attitude evaluation.
abstract: 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.
authors: Student Scientific Research Center (SSRC), School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
authors: Pouria
authors: P
authors: Heydarpour
authors: Nima
authors: N
authors: Hafezi-Nejad
authors: Ali
authors: A
authors: Khodabakhsh
authors: Mohsen
authors: M
authors: Khosravi
authors: Shayan
authors: S
authors: Khoshkis
authors: Majid
authors: M
authors: Sadeghian
authors: Bijan
authors: B
authors: Samavat
authors: Ali
authors: A
authors: Faturechi
authors: Parvin
authors: P
authors: Pasalar
authors: Ahmad Reza
authors: AR
authors: Dehpour
mesh_terms: D022126:Access to Information; D001292:Attitude to Computers; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction; D003479:Curriculum; D006801:Humans; D007492:Iran; D007858:Learning; D010600:Pharmacology / Q000193:education*; D015397:Program Evaluation; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*; D014495:Universities; D057211:Webcasts as Topic