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| Year : 2018 | Volume
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| Issue : 2 | Page : 87-93 |
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Use and application of computer and internet in dental education among students of Nagpur city
Sanjana Agrawal1, Anita Rama Kahar2, Usha Radke2, Surbhi Pandagale3, Priya Agrawal4, Jayashree Joshi2
1 VSPM Dental College and Research Centre, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
2 Department of Prosthodontics, VSPM Dental College and Research Centre, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
3 Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, Swargiya Dadasaheb Kalmegh Smruti Dental College and Hospital, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
4 Department of Prosthodontics, Government Dental College and Hospital, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
Correspondence Address:
Dr. Anita Rama Kahar
Hansapuri Jyotinagar Khadan, Near Durga Devi Temple, Nagpur, Maharashtra
India
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None  | Check |
DOI: 10.4103/ijmd.ijmd_40_18
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Background: Computer and Internet has currently become most easily accessible vehicle for extracting and viewing the data to everybody. Each folk carry the Internet in our hand and use it in just one finger bit. In dental education, additional use of computer and Internet is not a story of happening once and whereas, it is a routine procedure. The computers and Internet is employed for teaching and learning purpose. For the students, the Internet is currently one in every of the foremost necessary sources of data for looking and resolving the queries in academics beneath the steering of revered colleges. Hence, we decided do conduct such study in three dental institutes of our Nagpur city.
Aim: Assessment of computer and Internet use and its application in dental education among the dental students of three dental institutes of Nagpur city.
Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional questionnaire survey was undertaken among the first to final BDS students of three dental colleges of Nagpur city.
Results: One hundred and twenty (16.12%) of the participants use the Internet for searching information in dentistry. Three hundred and eighty-five (51.74%) of them use Internet for searching textbooks, videos, and literature. Three hundred and two (40.59%) of them prefer to read text from a book than computer.
Conclusion: Majority of the dental students use computer and Internet for their studies. At the identical time students were not a lot aware of e-books. They conjointly preferred to read text from a book. The preclinical year student's angle toward the use of computer and Internet was found to be more than clinical year students.
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