The bar chars indicate the percentage of one country’s medical students who use Internet in several different purposes and frequency in 2009.
Overall, it is significant that research and reading recommended coursework are in the majority because it have the high percent in all the frequent measure. Especially, email in weekly and information for patient account for at the peak.
In terms of daily usage, all the chars still oscillate from 7% to 12%. Weekly usage were similar. From the graph, the highest char is e-mail with 50% of medical students. Then 40% of chatting, research with near 30% and reading recommended coursework with 20% and finally information for patient has the lowest with 10%. In students of monthly, email has the highest with 18%, then is followed by information for patient, research, reading recommended coursework and chat with the near same percent.
About occasionally frequency, medical students tend to research with over 30% is the significant evidence. Then is reading recommend coursework, e-mail and the lowest ratios is information with 10%. However, the considerable proportion of the students who never use Internet in all purposes is dramatically high. The percentage of information for patient is at the peak with over 45%, then research and reading recommended coursework with 35%, chat with 20% and e-mail is the lowest percent with only 8%.
