Using mobile technology to enhance medical student assessment

• Published in: BMJ simulation & technology enhanced learning Vol. 3; no. 2; pp. 77 - 78
• Main Authors: Sinha, Smita, McRobbie, Sarah, Meldrum, Ashley, Brown, Craig, Denison, Alan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BMJ Publishing Group LTD 01.04.2017; BMJ Publishing Group
• Subjects: Curricula; Feedback; Health education; In Practice Reports; Innovations; Medical students; Response rates; Students; United Kingdom > UK; technology enhanced assessment; mobile technology; medical student assessment
• ISSN: 2056-6697; 2056-6697
• DOI: 10.1136/bmjstel-2016-000188

[...]the integration of technology into the education domain is ubiquitous; innovations include EEG monitored high fidelity simulation, 1 free open access medical education (FOAMED) and Google glass facilitated patient encounters. 2 It is this increase in technologies, along with a deeper appreciation of educational psychology and pedagogy that has led to a significant change in the way medical learners are taught. Using mobile devices to record candidate performance has the potential to reduce the financial outlay in the long-term as well as reduce administrative workload in producing OSCE results. 3 iPad marking has replaced paper-based marking at all stages of the medical undergraduate curriculum at the University of Aberdeen (figure 1), with high levels of user satisfaction reflecting the findings of Hochlehnert et al 3 who suggested that the use of tablets in OSCEs was acceptable and well received by both student and examiner. Medical schools in the UK are ranked based on student satisfaction levels by an annual national student survey. [...]the importance of obtaining medical education related feedback cannot be emphasised enough.