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Research Article

Medical students’ use of Facebook to support learning: Insights from four case studies

Kathleen Gray The University of Melbourne, Australia; KATHLEEN GRAY, PhD, is a Senior Research Fellow in Health Informatics at the University of Melbourne with a research interest in the role of new Web technologies in learning and decision-making by health professionals and healthcare consumers.Correspondence[email protected]
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Lucas Annabell The University of Melbourne, Australia; LUCAS ANNABELL is a Medical Student completing clinical studies at the University of Melbourne. The research reported in this article is based on an Advanced Medical Sciences project he conducted in the Biomedical Multimedia Unit under Dr Gray's and Dr. Kennedy's supervision in the research year of his degree.
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Gregor Kennedy The University of Melbourne, Australia; GREGOR KENNEDY is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Medicine at the University of Melbourne doing research into educational simulations. He led the University's Biomedical Multimedia Unit for over a decade and is internationally recognised for his expertise on educating the ‘Net Generation’ in universities.
Pages 971-976 | Published online: 19 Nov 2010

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