Use of Internet & Web Resources by Medical Professionals in Jammu & Kashmir

A survey was carried out to explore the use the Internet of medical professionals of J&K working at primary, secondary and tertiary health care institutions by administrating a questionnaire and employing stratified random sampling. The findings reveal that majority of the physicians/surgeons use the Internet for professional purposes. However, most of the paramedical professionals do not access it. The most consistent predictors of use were being male and younger. The results also depict that most of the professionals access the internet mostly at home while less than half search them in the library and at office or lab. They make less use of online databases and other web resources. Survey results also highlights areas in which improvements are needed, such as availability of Internet facilities at work place, better internet connectivity, free fulltext e-journals/books and user awareness programmes.