User:Doc James/EMS study

Planning on in the next few week administering a one page survey to PCP students looking at their use of research resources. Survey attached below and comments appreciated.

Survey

The survey

Survey of Internet usage of PCP students

Age_?__ Gender___ Years in EMS ___

What resources do you currently use to answer medical questions (in order of frequency)

___ Textbooks

___ Journal articles

___ Internet / online

___ Discuss with experts / colleagues

___ Other _________

Of the online sources which do you use most frequently and how frequently do you use them

___ Google ___ times per month

___ Wikipedia ___ times per month

___ Pubmed ___ times per month

___ BCAS ___ times per month

___ Emedicine ___ times per month

___ Uptodate ___ times per month

___ Other _________ (Health Canada, NIH, CDC, etc ) ___ times per month

What are the most important factors in determining the sources you use on a scale of 1 to 10 ( 1 for least important 10 for most important )

Ease of access ___

Reliability ___

Referencing ___

Comfortable with the site ___

Ease of finding suitable information ___

Consistent formatting across topics ___

Appropriate depth of information ___

Other important aspects _______________________________________________

What do you view as the most positive and negative factors of the following sources

Google Positive ____________________ Negative_____________________ N/A ___

Wikipedia Positive ____________________ Negative_____________________ N/A ___

Pubmed Positive ____________________ Negative_____________________ N/A ___

BCAS Positive ____________________ Negative_____________________ N/A ___

Emedicine Positive ____________________ Negative_____________________ N/A ___

Uptodate Positive ____________________ Negative_____________________ N/A ___

Other Positive ____________________ Negative_____________________ N/A ___

What is your understanding of how the following sites generate their content

Google _______________________________________________________ N/A ___

Wikipedia _______________________________________________________ N/A ___

Pubmed _______________________________________________________ N/A ___

BCAS _______________________________________________________ N/A ___

Emedicine _______________________________________________________ N/A ___

Uptodate _______________________________________________________ N/A ___

Other _______________________________________________________ N/A ___