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Mobile devices and mobile apps in medical education

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Podcast - 14th September 2012

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Mark Bridge visits the AMEE 2012 conference to discover how mobile devices and mobile applications are being used in medical education.

This special report covers everything from social networking to specialist teaching apps for medical students. Contributors include Natalie Lafferty from the University of Dundee and Gareth Frith from the Leeds Institute of Medical Education at the University of Leeds.

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