investigating the effect of an educational mobile application on the learning of medical interns in the general surgery ward

Background: this study aimed to determine the effect of using mobile phone-based educational aid software on the learning rate of medical interns in the general surgery department. method: this study was conducted on two groups of 70 general medicine interns in the general surgery department during two 8-month periods. the first and second group was educated using traditional and application-based method, respectively.results: the mean±sd age of the participants were 24.71 ± 3.19 and 25.25 ± 2.07 years for the app-based group and the traditional group, respectively. there were no significant differences between the two groups in terms of age (p = 0.247) or gender (p = 0.175). the score of the basic science test (app-group: 124.59 ± 26.56 vs. traditional group: 119.06 ± 16.02) and the score of the pre-internship test (app-group: 122.06 ± 22.12 vs. traditional group: 120.16 ± 16.13) did not show a significant difference between the intervention and control groups (p =0.139, p =0.562). still, the time elapsed since the internship in the intervention group (8.46 ± 3.46 months) was significantly more than the control group (6.29 ± 4.10 months, p=0.001). a significant increase in the post-test score was found in both groups (p<0.001). there was no significant difference regarding the pre-test results (p=0.731); however, the post-test score was significantly higher in the intervention group compared to the controls (p<0.001). conclusion: this study showed that training based on mobile software can be an effective role in training program’s medical intern in general surgery department.