To what extent is the medical students rely on medical information that are available on Internet and how it is related to their medical knowledges

Abstract The aim beyond this study is to specify and to measure how much students in medicine colleges rely on health information that available on “Internet resources” and to know which electronic resources they prefer ( like: academic database, official sites, blogs or social media) . However, the approach that adopted the descriptive-analytical method as a specialized methodology for implementation used questionnaires, observation, and structured interviews as methods for data collection. As well as the statistical software SPSS was also used to analyze the study results, and the study yielded a number of results, most notably: increased positive and conscious dependence. The descriptive-analytical showed that the medical students highly depend on the available health information resources with an overall average for the first axis of (2.10) and a relative importance of (70.1%). Priority is given to reliable official sources. The students put their confidences on official websites that belongs to reliable health organizations like (CDC and WHO), that the paragraph related to this ranked first with the highest arithmetic mean (2.76) and relative importance (92.0%). 9. difficulty in evaluating non-academic sources: Students expressed moderate difficulty in evaluating the reliability of "non-academic" medical information on the Internet (arithmetical mean 2.05), indicating a need to strengthen critical skills outside the formal domain.