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The use of Web 2.0 tools in education and health care has received heavy attention over the past years. Over two consecutive years, Children's Cancer Hospital - Egypt 57357 (CCHE 57357), in collaboration with Egyptian universities, student bodies, and NGOs, conducted a summer course that supports undergraduate medical students to cross the gap between clinical practice and clinical research. This time, there was a greater emphasis on reaching out to the students using social media and other Web 2.0 tools, which were heavily used in the course, including Google Drive, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Mendeley, Google Hangout, Live Streaming, Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCap), and Dropbox. We wanted to investigate the usefulness of integrating Web 2.0 technologies into formal educational courses and modules. The evaluation survey was filled in by 156 respondents, 134 of whom were course candidates (response rate = 94.4 %) and 22 of whom were course coordinators (response rate = 81.5 %). The course participants came from 14 different universities throughout Egypt. Students' feedback was positive and supported the integration of Web 2.0 tools in academic courses and modules. Google Drive, Facebook, and Dropbox were found to be most useful.
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We would like to acknowledge with gratitude the course tutors, CCHE research department team, MRS and AMSRA student societies, ABCDE society members, and all those who put effort into this educational initiative. In particular, we would like to acknowledge the following course coordinators: Maram Nassef, Ahmed Magdy, Mohamed Ghallab, Ibrahim Sehsah, Islam Khaled, Mohamed Adel, Radwa Jamal, Amr El-Foly, Hossam Asfour, Maha ElHawary, Hossam AbdelRazik, Omar Afifi, Nouran AbdelMoaemen, Hend Ayman, Noha Nasr El-Din, Hadeel Mohamed, Ahmed Mousa, Hossam ElEgeizy, Mohamed Shaaban, Omar Eltawansy, Yara Mohamed, Youssef Ahmed, Mohamed Sayed, Hadeel AbdulWahed, Mohamed Gomaa, Sara Ali, and Mohamed AbdelWaheb. We would like to thank Stefanie Baertele for revising the manuscript and Patricia Pruden for her support during the planning and implementation of the course over two consecutive years.
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We hereby declare that the course was completely free to participate in and was organized for noncommercial purposes. The authors were involved in both the organization and the assessment of the course reported in this study. The corresponding author is the owner of an e-learning company that did not contribute to this work.
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Amgad, M., AlFaar, A.S. Integrating Web 2.0 in Clinical Research Education in a Developing Country. J Canc Educ 29, 536–540 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13187-013-0595-5
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