The role of world wide web in formation of the medical physicist: directions and challenges in medical physics teaching through an ethnography of its student audience in electronic space

Abstract

This article intend to identify the main resources (via internet) most commonly used by the students of medical physics undergraduation courses throughout their educational process and seek to recognize which communication channels and traffic information path, from internet,  are often used by those students. 98% of the participants reported using the Internet to search for contents in Medical Physics, most sites are from associations and official regulatory agencies. 43% responded that their academic training was not sufficient both quantitatively and qualitatively. Thus, it is possible to recognize gaps in relation to training and final activity, from the perspective of graduates. With the vast majority seeking this highly specific knowledge on the internet, it can be inferred that it bears the mark of modernity when it facilitates the transformation of common knowledge (circulated on the network) in scientific knowledge that students build during their training.