Learning of the millennial generation in medical schools

Abstract

Currently, most undergraduate students are individuals born between 1982 and 2000, the so-called millennials, a generation that expects the integration of technology in education. Thus, this cross-sectional and descriptive- exploratory study proposes to understand the relationship of medical students with web-based technologies, which can improve learning, to implement them more efficiently in the academic environment. The results show that undergraduate medical students use these technologies, but with little diversity in services, being the most common Google Docs, Facebook, YouTube and Dropbox. We emphasize the need to expose students to technologies in medical education to overcome technological challenges faced by future physicians.