Effectiveness of Smartphone Application in Histology Practice

Kiwook Yang; Sang-Uk Park; Jeong-Yeob Kim; Hyunsu Lee; In-Jang Choi; Jae-Ho Lee

doi:10.11637/aba.2019.32.1.17

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Yang, Park, Kim, Lee, Choi, and Lee: Effectiveness of Smartphone Application in Histology Practice

Original Article

Anat Biol Anthropol 2019;32(1):17-21.

Published online: 20 January 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.11637/aba.2019.32.1.17

Effectiveness of Smartphone Application in Histology Practice

Kiwook Yang¹, Sang-Uk Park², Jeong-Yeob Kim², Hyunsu Lee¹, In-Jang Choi¹, Jae-Ho Lee^1,

¹Department of Anatomy, School of Medicine, Keimyung University

²Medical Course, School of Medicine, Keimyung University

Correspondence to: Jae-Ho Lee (Department of Anatomy, School of Medicine, Keimyung University, 2800, Dalgubeoldaero, Dalseo-Gu, Daegu, Republic of Korea) E-mail: anato82@dsmc.or.kr

Received 24 February 2019 Revised 13 March 2019 Accepted 15 March 2019

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

In recent years, the use of smartphone applications for education is increasing. Although applications are being used for various educational aspects such as exams, the study of medical educational application is lacking. This study aims to investigate the effect of educational applications on medical education by analyzing the utility of and satisfaction with educational applications for histology courses in medical schools. The researcher employed an application called “BAND” that can be used to upload and share microscopic figures taken during histology lectures. A total of 82 first-grade students from Keimyung University Medical School who participated in this study expressed satisfaction with using “BAND”. A total of 68 (83%) students were satisfied with learning histology through the application, and 72 (88%) students indicated that using the application was greatly helpful for the organizational practice test and expressed overall satisfaction with the application use. This benefit was because of easy contact (29.9%), searching ability (29.9%), and memory with humorous methods by friends (20.7%). And it application is most helpful during epithelium section (20.8%) and student want to use this application for anatomy (40.3%) or microbiology (38.8%) practices. The study results imply the need for further research so that the educational application can be used in various medical education fields in the future.

Keywords: Smartphone, Application, Histology, Medical application

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