Field survey of information literacy of physical therapy students - What does e-learning give to physical therapy education?

Abstract

[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to consider the degree of physical therapy students' information literacy, how students perceived the reliability of the wealth of medical information, and how this changed with academic year. [Subjects and Methods] The survey was conducted by a questionnaire containing 16 items distributed to 161 students in a four-year physical therapy college. [Results] Though the degree of reliability of internet information is the subjective judgement of each student, it showed a tendency to increase significantly in moving to the upper grades. The percentage of students who felt internet information reliability was high was over 50%. [Conclusion] The result suggests that the education curriculum which arouses information literacy is important in the lower grades.