University Medical Staff Perception Towards Using Electronic Information Resources | ||
| The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine | ||
| Article 17, Volume 21, Issue 1, October 2005, Pages 202-207 PDF (260.39 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhm.2005.18061 | ||
| Author | ||
| Ayman S. Abdelhady | ||
| Public Health Department -Faculty of Medicine , Al-Azhar University ( Assuit branch). | ||
| Abstract | ||
| University staff are increasingly expected to use electronic resources of information. Studies were undertaken to determine the level of use of this type of resources and how university staff feel about various issues surrounding the use of these resources. A random sample of one hundred (100) university medical staff (academic and clinical), Al-Azhar University, completed questionnaire to determine the level of use of various electronic information resources, if they perceived themselves capable of using these resources and the various methods employed to acquire skills necessary to use such resources. A wide variety of views were expressed by the sample staff but the main findings suggested that the most common electronic resources of information used by the staff were CD-Roms and the internet as 72% and 63% respectively. Also, the study suggested that faster access to information was noted as a main advantage of using these resources where detected by 67% of the staff members and 62% showed that these resources allowed a wider range of information. The study also showed that the staff had the ability to utilize these resources and obtain information from the internet whenever they want, in spite of some barriers of use, detected in the study and found to be facing the staff which were mostly limited time and lack of retrieval skills of information from these resources. The most popular methods of acquiring the necessary skills to use electronic resources were via guidance from other peers and courses offered by the university. Furthermore, researches were necessary to show how best to encourage staff and students to make effective use of electronic sources that | ||
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