Uso de aplicativos de tecnologia móvel na rotina de estudantes concluintes de medicina

The use of applications has been growing in the field of health, becoming a daily routine in the practice of professionals and students. Therefore, knowing the benefits and risks of its use is necessary. The study presented here aims to verify the opinions and attitudes reported by medical students about the use of applications in the outpatient routine in a teaching hospital. It is a cross-sectional study and it was developed in 2017 in Recife, in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil, using a self-administered questionnaire asked by 73 students of the last year of medicine undergraduate degree. The results reveal that the majority (95.9%) of the students reported having a smartphone and 98.6% specified that they use mobile devices for academic purposes. The most common purpose of using applications was to consult existing drugs (93.2%) and almost all students (98.6%) believe that the applications used are reliables. However, there are doubts if routine use interferes with the professional-patient relationship. We concluded that the use of applications is growing, but there are still disagreements about its benefits and harms.