Outcomes of Introducing a Mobile Interactive Learning Resource in a Large Medical School Course.

Mobile devices are an integral part of modern medical education, as convenient platforms for access to online interactive learning resources; students' use of textbooks has correspondingly declined. We designed an interactive iBook for pre-clinical students encompassing the content of the pulmonary segment in an organ-based multidisciplinary course. We found, via a survey-based study, that students preferred the iBook to other faculty-supplied materials (PowerPoints and PDFs), mainly due to its interactive images, animations, and study questions.