Comparison of WhatsApp® and Face-to-Face case based learning in undergraduate dental students: A randomized controlled trial

Wasim Ijaz, Usman Mahboob, Humera Adeeb, Naveed Iqbal · 2024

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Wasim Ijaz and co-authors published a research paper in 2024 on teaching dental students through cases over WhatsApp versus in person. Case-based learning is a staple of health training, and phones offer a cheap way to run it. Thirty students at a dental college in Pakistan were split by lot into two groups for a six-week trial.

Both groups scored far better after the course than before it. The gap between the phone group and the in-person group, though, was too small to count. Every student already used the app, and most reached it by phone. The authors say the app works as a teaching tool about as well as meeting face to face.

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CREATORWasim Ijaz, Usman Mahboob, Humera Adeeb, Naveed Iqbal
YEAR2024
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE17 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11613357

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