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SCIS 2016: Nordic Contributions in IS Research pp 176–190Cite as

ICT and Learning Usability at Work

Challenges and Opportunities for Physicians in Everyday Practice

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The medical profession demands training and lifelong learning to ensure patient safety and quality of treatment. Main barriers are lack of time and resources. Information and communication technology (ICT) has proven to be useful to support e-learning, but less focus has been placed on the potential role of ICT as support for continuous learning in everyday practice. The aim of this qualitative interview study was to explore physicians’ perspective of learning and how ICT in various ways can support learning at work. The findings indicate that continuous learning to a large extent is case driven, and that ICT may play an important role and support reflection and learning for individual physicians and for the collective as well. We argue that such ICT solutions must be adopted to and integrated in the everyday work, save time and include learning usability.

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    The regulations and general guidelines for doctors’ specialist medical training by the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare (2008), stipulate that the trainee should acquire a scientific approach, by attending a course and by carrying out an individual written work.

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  1. School of Business, Economics and IT, University West, 461 86, Trollhättan, Sweden

    Helena Vallo Hult & Martin Gellerstedt

  2. Fyrbodal Health Academy, NU Hospital Group, 461 85, Trollhättan, Sweden

    Helena Vallo Hult

  3. Department of Archivistics, Library and Information Science Oslo and Akershus, University College of Applied Sciences, Gaza City, Norway

    Katriina Byström

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Hult, H.V., Byström, K., Gellerstedt, M. (2016). ICT and Learning Usability at Work. In: Lundh Snis, U. (eds) Nordic Contributions in IS Research. SCIS 2016. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 259. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43597-8_13

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