The Status of Mobile Learning in Medical Universities: Comments, Outcomes

Background: the speed of advance in medical education, creativity in technology, limit time for new work has created new vision in medical education. With these conditions, medical universities for information and skills transferring face difficulties. Methods: In this study, by using the key words mobile learning, medical education, medical universities, students, empowerment, and their English equivalents, articles were selected related studies from 1995 to 2014 Google scholar, pub med, Scopus databases and local and foreign journals were related to medical education, based on the posed in This fields of education, the situation in this method were studied in different universities of medical sciences and finally 36 were studied. Results: Based on results and analysis of the content of articles, subjects were grouped in 6 categories includes: 1. Students comments 2. The use of mobile learning outcomes 3-Compared to other methods 4-use training methods in relation to the curriculum and 5. the Relation to learning theories 6-challenges associated with mobile learning. Conclusion: Improving student learning in line with educational goals need to use different teaching methods. According to various studies, the use of these methods is the need to educate faculty and academic administrators.