An Analytical Study of Medical Students’ Interaction with Internet and Online Resources

The purpose of this paper is to examine the use and perception of internet and online resources by medical undergraduate students in Sree Narayana Institute of Medical Sciences (SNIMS), a medical college affiliated to Kerala University of Health Sciences, Kerala, India. A survey was designed to assess research problem and questionnaires were distributed to randomly selected 120 undergraduate students of the college. The study revealed that the internet is widely used by undergraduate students. Regardless of the extensive use of the internet, there exists a meager level of use of electronic resources such as the electronic journals and online databases which are essential for learning.