Medical students’ attitudes and wishes towards extending an educational general practice app to be suitable for practice: A cross-sectional survey from Leipzig, Germany

Figures & data

Figure 1. Students’ judgment of the potential of the supplied app prototype compared to a textbook for the medical profession (white bars) as well as for acquiring knowledge during undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing medical education (grey bars) (Values displayed in valid percent for n = 289).

Figure 2. Purposes for which students would like to use a future app as a doctor given that respective features are provided (displayed as valid %, n = 289).

Table 1. Group comparisons for possible extensions to future app based on gender (male vs. female) and relative potential of apps (students attributing a higher potential to apps vs. those attributing a higher potential to textbooks) (Chi-square test, items are sorted in order of overall preferences).

Possible app feature (Shortened item)	All (%)	Gender			Perceived potential for education and training			Perceived potential for the job
		Male (%)	Female (%)	p	Higher for books (%)	Higher for apps (%)	p	Higher for books (%)	Higher for apps (%)	p
Diagnostics, therapy and prediction info	85.1	85.2	85.1	0.970	85.2	85.1	0.971	84.6	85.8	0.766
Access to electronic patient file	48.1	53.9	44.3	0.108	40.2	54.7	0.016	38.9	58.2	0.001
Communication and networking	44.3	45.2	43.7	0.797	43.4	44.7	0.830	38.3	50.7	0.035
Organizing medical training	42.9	37.4	46.6	0.124	40.2	46.0	0.330	37.6	49.3	0.048
Online patient monitoring	38.1	44.3	33.9	0.074	28.7	45.3	0.004	35.6	41.0	0.344
Organizing opening own doctor office	35.6	31.3	38.5	0.211	30.3	40.4	0.081	30.9	42.5	0.042
Diagnostic functions with peripherals	34.3	44.3	27.6	0.003	26.2	41.6	0.007	26.8	44.0	0.002
Telemedicine	28.5	36.8	23.0	0.011	27.3	30.4	0.563	24.8	33.8	0.097
Contact to university	27.7	31.3	25.3	0.263	24.6	30.4	0.278	28.2	27.6	0.914
Patient education and communication	22.5	28.7	18.4	0.040	18.0	26.1	0.109	17.4	28.4	0.029
Procurement of goods and services	20.1	23.5	17.8	0.239	18.0	22.4	0.372	18.8	22.4	0.454
Marketing	7.6	11.3	5.2	0.054	7.4	8.1	0.828	8.1	7.5	0.853
Total n	289	115	174	289	122	161	283	149	134	283

Figure 3. Group comparison for possible extensions to future app between those students who want to use a future app for the support of opening their own practice (grey bars; n = 103) versus those who do not (white bars; n = 186) (displayed as valid %, n = 289).